Insulation removal in Mandan ND - a clean attic ready for new insulation

Most people find out by accident, usually when they pop the hatch for something else and see insulation that's flat, stained or tunneled through. The price moves with how big the attic is, what kind of insulation is up there, how bad it's gotten and how hard the space is to get into, and the schedule turns on the same things plus whatever we find once the old stuff is out. I give you the number for your attic after I've been up there, and once it's clean we can talk about what goes back in, usually attic insulation on a properly sealed floor.

I look at the attic first, because what's up there decides how it comes out, and if anything looks like vermiculite, we stop right there and point you to someone trained to handle it. If it's wet, moldy or full of mouse mess, our crew takes it out by vacuum or by hand, and either way we're careful carrying it through your house, with the path from the hatch to the door covered so the mess stays in the bags and not in your hallway. Once it's out, we clean the attic floor and look over the framing, the roof deck and the edges, because leaks and the holes mice came through like to hide under the old stuff. Then the attic is ready for new insulation, and nothing gets buried that should have been fixed first.

Water and mice rarely stop at the attic. A damp, chewed-up crawl space usually needs the same cleanout before crawl space insulation goes in, and an empty attic gives us a clear look down into the tops of the walls to see whether wall insulation is missing or slumped. It's also the easiest time for attic air sealing, which closes the gaps around lights, pipes and the hatch before anything covers them again.

In Mandan, building permits come from the city's Building Inspection Department, and that office also inspects the work against the building code. I don't assume either way about your job, so if you're not sure whether it needs a permit, ask and I'll find out, and when it does, we pull the permit and set up the inspections.

A lot of the houses we work in around Mandan and over in Bismarck are older, and their attics come in layers, batts from one decade with blown-in poured over the top in another, plus the occasional mystery nobody can explain. The bottom layer is usually where the water and the mice were, so we take it down to the floor instead of skimming the top. We're based in Mandan and work in plenty of other cities around both.