Insulation contractor in Temescal Valley - an upstairs that stays comfortable

A lot of the houses in Temescal Valley are newer two-story tract homes with the ductwork running through the attic, and the calls we get sound alike. The upstairs runs hot, the room over the garage never feels right and the power bill keeps climbing. Most of these attics have builder-grade blown-in, which is loose fill blown through a hose, and it has usually settled and thinned out near the eaves, so I measure what's actually up there before I suggest anything. Foam costs more but seals the air while it insulates, and when the ducts live in the attic I usually lean that way. When they don't, sealing the gaps and topping up the loose fill is usually the better buy.

Not every house here is a tract home. Older places on bigger lots and homes built into a slope often have a crawl space or a lower level against the hill, and those spaces get skipped, so we check them on the same visit as the attic.

Temescal Valley isn't inside any city, so the County of Riverside sets the rules here, and the county's Building and Safety Department issues building permits for the area. If your job needs one, we put in the application and line up the inspections, and the start date waits on the county's review, so that's the first thing I sort out. If it isn't clear whether yours needs one, I check with that office before we start, so you're not left guessing. You can check us too. Ask any contractor for their state license and look it up, and know that the county doesn't issue business licenses, so businesses working in the unincorporated area register with the county's stormwater program instead. We're licensed and insured.

What moves the price is mostly what I find up there. That means how big the attic is and how hard it is to move around in, how many inches are already down and whether they're clean, whether old material has to come out first, and whether we're topping up loose fill or spraying foam. The schedule turns on the same things plus the permit question, and foam adds the hours you'll spend out of the house, so the written estimate lays out the price and the order of work for your place. We come up the freeway from Murrieta, and it's the same crew and the same way of working you'd get in Wildomar or down in Fallbrook.

Temescal Valley sits along the freeway north of Lake Elsinore, and most of what we see here is newer planned neighborhoods. There are rows of two-story stucco homes, some single-story communities and older places on bigger lots toward the hills. It feels more like a string of neighborhoods than one downtown, and the houses inside each one were usually built the same way at about the same time.

That sameness helps, because once I've been in one attic on a street I have a good idea what the next one hides. I still measure every house, though, since an earlier top-up or one buried vent changes the job.