Drafty rooms and street noise coming through the walls? We fill closed walls through small holes and patch them, so rooms stay comfortable.
Wall insulation in East Los Angeles fills the hollow spaces inside your walls so rooms hold their temperature and keep outside noise down. In most older houses we do it by drilling small holes, blowing insulation in and patching the holes, without tearing the walls open.
A lot of older houses around here were built with nothing in the walls, so a room can still feel drafty or loud after the attic insulation is done. The price mostly comes down to how much wall area needs filling, whether the walls are open or closed, and whether the siding shows moisture that has to be fixed first. The schedule turns on those same things, plus the age of the house and what the county or your city asks for before work starts. When I come out, I look at the walls with you and write down what the job needs and what has to come first, so you see your own number before anything gets drilled.
I come out to every estimate myself, look at your walls and siding with you and write down what the job needs and what has to come first. If your walls don't need anything, I'll tell you that instead of selling you a job you don't need.
On the day of the work, a lead installer runs our crew and keeps things in the right order, from drilling to patching. When they're done, I look over the walls with you, show you what we filled and make sure the rooms are left clean.
Before this business, I spent years hauling flattened, soaked insulation out of garages and attics, then learned the trade beside an experienced installer and opened in 2017. That's where my habit of fixing the problem before adding insulation comes from.
We're licensed and insured for the work we do in your house. Our work is backed by our satisfaction guarantee. Call (213) 329-0372 or use the form on this page, and we'll set a time for me to come look at your walls.
We reply within one business day, and the estimate is free, done at your house, with no pressure to book. I come out, look at your walls with you and write down what the job needs and what has to come first. It helps to have the house's age, the kind of walls you have and any siding plans ready.
For houses in East Los Angeles, building permits go through LA County Public Works, and owners contact their local office to ask what a project requires. Here that's the county's East Los Angeles Building and Safety Office, whose intake line is (323) 881-7030. The county's guidance doesn't settle whether a wall insulation job needs a permit, so we check which office covers your address before anything else, and when a job calls for a permit, we take care of that step with them before work starts. If your house is in Montebello or Monterey Park, those cities run their own building departments, so a different office may handle it. California's Energy Code also sets efficiency requirements for changes to existing houses, not just new ones, so wall work is planned with it in mind.
We're based in East Los Angeles and work across the cities around it, including Downey, El Monte, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Alhambra and other nearby cities. Most of the wall calls we get come from owners of older houses whose walls were never filled, and from landlords hearing about drafty rooms and street noise from tenants. The work, and the order we do it in, is the same from one city to the next.
The usual way is drill and fill, where a crew drills small holes, blows insulation into each cavity and seals the holes, so the walls get insulated without being opened up. Blown-in material can work its way into odd-shaped spaces and around things in the way inside the wall. The estimate is where we sort out which walls need it and what has to happen first.
Installing blown-in wall insulation across the US usually costs about $4 to $4.50 per square foot, so treat that as a national starting guide, not a quote for your house. Your own number depends on the things covered at the top of this page, and I write it down for you at the estimate.
In a house built before 1978, anyone paid to do work that disturbs paint has to be certified in lead-safe work practices. That covers every firm, even a one-person business, so you can ask to see that certification before work starts. It's also why I ask how old your house is before any drilling.
Thin fill is the usual cause, because loosely packed insulation settles over time and leaves an empty space in the cavity. Each cavity has to be filled full and dense, so the way a crew packs the walls decides how well they work years later.
Yes, if new siding is already planned, that's the easiest and least expensive time, because the walls are open from the outside. A continuous layer of insulation on the outside costs only slightly more than the siding, and you notice the comfort and the quieter rooms right away. Mention your siding plans when you call so we can plan around them.
California's contractor classifications include the C-2 Insulation and Acoustical Contractor, who installs any insulating material for temperature or sound control. That's the state's class for the kind of work on this page, from attics to walls.
