We finished the basement encapsulation/ insulation job. Went very well, before we were even through the homeowner said he could already tell a difference, thats what i want to hear. Overall it was a great job that went pretty quickly. The basement encapsulation was perfect. Closed-cell foam insulation went up on the concrete block walls of the crawl space and vapor barrier enclosed the ground space to overlap up on the walls. Completely cleaned out the crawl space, insulated and weather-stripped the access doors. They close as securely as a refrigerator door now. Inside the house we used open-cell spray foam insulation in all of the attic spaces to cover the roof decking in between all of the rafters from the ridge to the eaves. This now brings this entire space into the insulated “building envelope”. The attic areas wont go through the same extreme temperatures as they once did but will remain more of a conservative temperature year round. Interior walls adjacent to these attic spaces will be less susceptible to temperature change now that the space is insulated.

The benefit to insulating the crawl space and the attic spaces is to prevent heat loss from the conditioned places in your house and the heating and cooling units are no longer in extreme temperatures working twice as hard to raise and lower the temperature in your house, therefore the units work more efficiently and last longer saving you money in two ways. Now who doesn’t like saving money?

The window replacement project has come to a close. The old windows are out and the new ones are in. The new ones are double paned low-e glass with a vacuum cavity between the panes. The frames are also energy efficient as the exterior metal of the frame does not contact the metal of the inside frame directly as to prevent conduction of heat between the two. The temperature difference in the room is clearly evident since the drafts from the windows not closing in their old state has been remedied with sealed new windows. The motorized blinds from Hunter Douglas are up and programmed along with the wall switches and remote. The remote will control each bank of three windows individually or all nine at once. They have a feature that will lower the blinds the entire way and then open the louvers and then close them back to a blackout feature, with the option to incrementally open the louvers back up to let in more light. This project is a complete success. I cant wait till the next one.

Working on the website now. It will have a lot more content and links to our facebook page and twitter feed. It will also showcase our previous jobs and allow updates to current jobs.