We're an insulation contractor based in Longview, TX. We seal and insulate attics, crawl spaces and rooms over the garage for White Oak homes, from a simple top-up to spray foam.
(903) 309-1886
White Oak sits in the rolling hills and piney woods of East Texas, and you can see it in the attics. Tall pines shade a lot of these roofs, which helps, but they also drop needles that pack into eave vents. A blocked vent traps damp air up there. We find plenty of older ranch houses with a few inches of insulation that's settled thin over the years, and newer homes where the room over the garage runs hot every summer.
These houses look a lot like the ones next door in Gladewater, so the fix is familiar. We open the vents, seal the leaks and then bring the insulation up evenly. Doing it in that order is what cools a hot upstairs.
Send the form or call (903) 309-1886 and you'll hear back within one business day, and a lot of the time I'm the one calling. I'll come out to your White Oak house, look at the attic and anything else that's bothering you, and write an estimate that spells out which areas and which materials the job covers. It's free, and there's no obligation.
(903) 309-1886Most White Oak calls start with attic insulation. First we do the air sealing, which means closing the gaps around can lights, pipes and the hatch. Then we top up with blown-in insulation, loose fill blown through a hose, so it reaches the edges as deep as the middle. We also foam rooms over the garage, insulate crawl spaces under cold floors, pull out old insulation that's wet or full of droppings, and insulate shops and metal buildings.
For a house inside White Oak's city limits, permits come from the building inspector at City Hall, and the city asks owners to check there before work begins. Insulation isn't named on its own in the city's permit list, so we ask the building office before we start. If a permit is needed, we handle it as part of our work and tell you up front, because waiting on one can push back the start. Any contractor who pulls a city permit there has to register with the city every year, so ask about that, and ask whether they're licensed and insured, which we are. Your price moves with the size of the attic, how many inches are already up there, whether old insulation has to come out first and whether the job calls for foam or loose fill, and our estimate puts each of those in writing.
White Oak is a short drive down US 80 from Longview, so getting the crew and the blowing machine out to you is easy, and we do the same work over in Kilgore. In summer we like to get into an East Texas attic early, before it heats up. In older pier-and-beam houses, the ones raised on piers over a crawl space, we look under the floor as well as overhead, because that's usually where cold floors start.
Fresh insulation laid over soaked or droppings-filled old stuff just hides the trouble, so we check first and pull out what's ruined. Then we seal around can lights, pipes and the hatch, keep the eave vents clear, and fill the edges as deep as the middle.
I come out to climb up there and write the estimate myself. Plenty of folks have never set foot in their own attic, so I'll show you what I found and what we'd do about it. Our own crew lead and installers do the work, not a hired-out crew.
I learned insulation by blowing attics and sealing drafty houses for neighbors around Longview on weekends. Word got around, and in 2013 I made it my full-time work. We're licensed and fully insured, and our promise is short and simple. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Foam costs more and seals air while it insulates, and it pays off when your ductwork runs through the attic. Otherwise, sealing the gaps and topping up loose fill usually does the job for less, and I'll tell you so. Call (903) 309-1886 to talk it through.
Your price comes from your own attic, so I write it up after I've been up there and looked. Foam costs more than loose fill, and pulling out old, wet insulation first adds to the job. If the city says the job needs a permit, its posted fees figure building permits from total square footage, with a $50.00 minimum, and we tell you about that up front.
A seal-and-top-up job is the quicker kind of job, and it runs longer when old insulation has to come out first or we're spraying foam. Your estimate lays out what we're doing and in what order, so you know the plan before we show up.
Yes, with spray foam you, the kids and the pets stay out until the re-entry time, which is when it's safe to come back inside. The foam maker's instructions set that time, and we tell you what it is ahead of the day so you can plan around it. With blown-in insulation you can usually stay home.
Usually it's air getting through, not just thin insulation. Gaps around can lights, pipes and the attic hatch let hot attic air into the rooms, the insulation runs thin at the edges, or the eave vents are buried or packed with pine needles so the attic can't breathe. We fix those first and then add insulation where it's thin.
Most of the time it's an open, uninsulated crawl space under the floor. We insulate between the floor joists and can lay a vapor barrier, a heavy sheet over the dirt that keeps ground moisture down so the insulation stays dry. If the crawl space is wet, we'll tell you, because insulating a wet one only traps the problem.
The city requires a Certificate of Occupancy, a safety inspection by the building inspector, before you move in and before electric service is connected, and that inspection costs $30. While the house is still empty is also a handy time to have us look at the attic, since there's nothing to move out of the way.
