Drafty rooms, a hot upstairs and a power bill that climbs usually trace back to gaps into the attic. We find them and close them.
Air sealing services in Longview, TX close the gaps and holes between your attic and the rooms below, which saves energy, brings down the power bill and helps keep moisture from building up in the attic.
Most folks who call us at Complete Longview Spray Foam Insulation have a room over the garage that never cools off, a hallway that feels like somebody left a door open, or a power bill that seems too big for the house. The usual culprit is a scatter of small holes in the attic floor where wires, pipes, lights and fans come through, and together they leak a lot more than you'd guess. The price moves with how many of those gaps there are, how easy your attic is to crawl around in and whether old insulation has to be pulled back to reach them. The schedule mostly turns on whether anything I find up there has to be fixed before we seal. My estimate spells out which areas we'll seal and which materials we'll use, so you know what you're paying for, and if you're also thinking about attic insulation, tell me, because that changes the order of the work.
When you call, I'm the one who comes out, climbs up into the attic and writes the estimate, so the person pricing your job has actually seen it. Our own crew lead and installers do the sealing, not a crew you've never heard of.
I started out sealing drafty houses for neighbors around Longview on weekends and went full time in 2013. That's 13 years, and the rule hasn't changed. Problems get fixed and gaps get sealed before anything gets covered up. Satisfaction guaranteed.
We're licensed and fully insured, and that matters in an attic, where our crew is stepping between joists over your ceiling and working near wiring and flues. To get on the schedule, call (903) 309-1886 or send the form on this page.
Send the form or call (903) 309-1886 and we'll reply within one business day, and a lot of the time it's me calling you back to set a time to come out. The estimate is free, done at your house, with no pressure and no obligation. It helps if you can tell me where your attic hatch is, whether a gas furnace or water heater vents up a chimney, and whether you're planning new insulation.
Before work starts, we check with the building office for the city your house is in and find out what it asks for on the job, and if a permit's needed, we take care of it and tell you up front. In Longview, the city's building inspection office answers code questions before a permit is issued, and if you'd rather pull your own permit, the city asks you to call 903-237-1074 before you apply online. Gregg County falls in climate zone 3 under the state's energy code guide, and here that means long, sticky summers, so most of the leaks we close are letting hot attic air down into your rooms.
We're based in Longview and work in the cities around it across East Texas, including White Oak, Kilgore, Tyler and more. A lot of the houses we see have a pull-down hatch in a hallway, a few layers of insulation from different decades and can lights added during a remodel, and each of those leaves holes in the attic floor. The work is the same wherever you are, and so is the order we do it in.
There's no set price, so I give you a number after I've been up in your attic. A low, cramped attic, deep old insulation that has to be pulled back or a repair that has to come first will add to it. A roomy attic with a clear floor costs less to seal.
Seal the attic floor first, then add the insulation. Federal energy guidance says that when an existing vented attic gets more insulation, every opening in the attic floor gets sealed first with sealant, spray foam or rigid blocking. If you're planning new insulation, book the sealing as the first step of that job, because once fresh material goes down those holes are buried and the air keeps moving through it.
The attic gets checked for active knob and tube wiring, which is old wiring strung on ceramic knobs, vermiculite insulation, bath fans venting into the attic, roof leaks, unvented kerosene heaters or gas fireplaces, and attic flooring. A federal air sealing guide treats any of these as a reason to stop, so sealing waits until it's dealt with. I'll tell you what I find and what has to happen before we start.
A blower door test, done as part of a whole-house energy test, may help show whether the openings around ducts and flues were sealed. The blower door is a fan set in an outside doorway that pulls air out of the house. During that test, an infrared camera can spot leftover leaks, as long as the attic and the rooms below are far enough apart in temperature.
There can be. The Greater East Texas Community Action Partnership runs a weatherization program with income limits, reached at 903-758-5674, and SWEPCO's weatherization program helps pay for insulation, caulking and weatherstripping. Households that meet federal poverty income guidelines may get those at no cost, so it's worth checking before you book anybody, us included.
