Attic Insulation Case Studies: Helping Improve The Comfort of a Home in West Bloomfield, MI
Challenge
The homeowner had explained that one room, daughters room, was cooler in the winter and warmer in the summer than the rest of the rooms upstairs. The HVAC System would come on upstairs more often than it should to try to get the temperatures of the room that is colder in the winter and warmer in the summer to the ambient temperature as the rest of the upstairs. The problem was caused by lack of insulation over the daughter's bedroom. The rest of the attic contained R30 blown in fiberglass insulation but above daughters bedroom ceiling the insulation had been moved around and only had an average R value of R13-R19. The homeowner chose to have the problem fixed because he didn't want to keep spending the money to have his heating and cooling system coming on because one room upstairs was not holding its temperature like the rest of the rooms upstairs.
Solution
The homeowner chose our company because we were able to show him why he was losing warm/cold air in his daughter's bedroom with our infrared camera and see how the temperature of the ceiling was being affected by a lack of insulation on the attic floor compared to the rest of the ceiling. Our solution was to cover the can lights that he had exposed in the attic to prevent air from his conditioned space to leak into the attic and then cap off his existing insulation to achieve an R60 R-value on the attic floor throughout. We came across issues with not having enough hose on our main hose reel, so we had to unravel out other hose reel to attach another hose just to reach the furthest area of the attic from our truck. We used SilverGlo, TiteShell can light covers, durovent baffles and TruSoft Cellulose Insulation. The homeowner now has a more energy efficient attic and the daughter's bedroom upstairs is no longer cold during the winter or warm during the summer, keeping the HVAC from coming on as often.
