Insulation contractor in Mount Pleasant, SC - comfortable rooms in lived-in homes

Most calls we get here start with a hot room upstairs or over the garage. The attic usually explains it, with a few inches of old insulation that has settled over the years, ductwork running through the hottest part of the house and gaps letting air through. Before we add anything, I also look for old wiring, signs of water and any fuel-burning appliance that needs its air supply left open, because covering those with insulation can create a new problem.

The Town of Mount Pleasant describes two kinds of flooding here, local flooding from blocked or undersized drainage and storm surge from tropical storms and hurricanes. Either one can leave water under a raised house, and wet insulation under a floor sags and holds moisture against the framing, so in a crawl space we look for water lines and damp soil before we put anything back up.

Before work starts on a job here, we check with the Town's building office for your address, because its Front Office staff issue trade permits for any work on electrical, gas, mechanical or plumbing systems, and a building permit covers repairs and changes to the house itself. That answer comes first on our schedule, since we don't start until we know whether a permit applies, and if one does, we take care of the application and keep you informed. You can check any contractor the same way the Town does, because every contractor working in the Town needs a Town business license, and the Town verifies contractor licenses through the state licensing board. We're fully licensed and insured, and you're welcome to look us up.

What moves the price is mostly what's already in your house, such as how big the attic or crawl space is, whether old insulation has to come out first, how easy the space is to reach and whether foam or loose fill suits where your ducts run. The schedule turns on the same things, plus the permit check, and at the estimate visit I'll explain what I found and what I'd suggest so you have your own figure. We do the same work in North Charleston and on James Island, where the houses raise many of the same attic and crawl space questions, though the office we check with changes with the address.

Mount Pleasant is where we're based, and the houses we work in here cover a wide span. Near the harbor, the Old Village has older homes, each with its own story up in the attic and under the floor, while newer neighborhoods farther out are full of two-story houses with bonus rooms over the garage and ductwork running overhead. Plenty of homes in both sit raised over crawl spaces.

We see many of the same house types in Charleston and Summerville, but here the mix of old and new means no two attics look alike, so each job starts with what's already up there and what's under the floor.