Hot upstairs, drafty rooms or a climbing power bill in an older house? We add insulation through the attic floor or small wall holes.
Retrofit insulation in East Los Angeles adds insulation to a house that's already finished. It's blown across the attic floor or packed into closed walls through small holes, so your house gains and loses less heat and the rooms stay more comfortable.
Most calls start with an upstairs that stays hot, a drafty room over the garage or a power bill that keeps going up. The price depends on how much attic floor and wall you want covered, how many inches are already up there and whether old material has to come out first through insulation removal. The schedule depends on the prep, since stored boxes, old wiring and open gaps all have to be handled before anything new goes in. When I come out, I write down what your house needs and what has to happen first.
I come out for every estimate myself, so the person who looks at your attic and walls is the same person who writes your plan. A lead installer runs the crew on the job, and when it's finished I look over the work with you.
I spent years hauling junk out of attics around here and kept finding insulation that was flattened, soaked or full of droppings. I learned this trade working beside an experienced installer and opened this business in 2017, and that's why we fix the problem before any new material goes in.
We're licensed and insured. That matters on a retrofit, because our crew works inside a finished house, around your ceilings, your wiring and your things. You shouldn't carry the risk if something goes wrong up there, so ask me about it during the estimate.
If your attic is in decent shape, I'll tell you so and won't sell you a job, and on the jobs we do take, we explain plainly what we did. Backed by our satisfaction guarantee. Call (213) 329-0372 or send the form to set up a visit.
Send us your address, the areas you want insulated and anything you know about vermiculite or old wiring, and we'll reply within one business day. I'll come out for a free on-site estimate, look at the attic and walls with you and write down what the job needs and what has to come first. There's no obligation and no pressure to book.
East Los Angeles isn't a city of its own. It's unincorporated county land, so building permits here come from LA County Public Works, even when your mailing address says Los Angeles, and the county runs a building and safety office right here in East Los Angeles. Before anything else, we check which office covers your address, since the cities around here run their own building departments. When a job calls for a permit, we take care of that step with the office before work starts.
On jobs here we often find older houses with a few flattened inches in the attic and nothing in the walls, plus garage rooms and additions that were never insulated well. Landlords call us about rentals too, along with homeowners. We do the same work across the cities around us, including Montebello and Monterey Park, plus other nearby cities.
Blown-in insulation in the Los Angeles area usually costs about $1,600 to $3,600 per job. That's what the market typically charges for blown-in work, not a quote from us. Adding walls, or old material that has to come out first, will change your number. I'll give you your own figure once I've seen the house.
Yes, usually. One cellulose maker describes drill-and-fill, where cellulose is packed tightly under pressure through small holes drilled from outside, so the walls never have to be opened. Federal installer guidance says the access holes get patched afterward or covered with chair rail molding, a strip of trim along the wall.
Leave it alone and tell us before any work is planned. The EPA advises assuming vermiculite may contain asbestos and leaving it undisturbed. If you decide to remove it, the EPA says a trained, accredited asbestos abatement contractor should do the removal, and that contractor should be separate from whoever assessed it. If I spot vermiculite during the estimate, we stop there and talk it through with you.
Usually it's thin or flattened attic insulation, plus open gaps in the ceiling that let attic air leak into the rooms below. Insulation slows heat, but it can't stop air moving through a hole, so the order of the work matters as much as how deep the insulation is.
In most houses, start with the attic. It's the easiest part to reach and the least disruptive, and we can seal the gaps there at the same time. Federal guidance notes that adding attic insulation is a good chance to air seal, so the two can be planned as one job. If a room still runs hot or cold afterward, the walls come next.
California has a C-2 Insulation and Acoustical Contractor class, and it covers installing any insulating material for temperature or sound control. When you're comparing contractors for this work, that's the class to ask them about before they start.
No. Once insulation is in, there's no upkeep to plan or budget for, and it helps with comfort and sound control too. The problems that hurt it later are things like leaks or pests getting into the attic, which is why we check for those before adding anything.
