We're an insulation contractor based in Redondo Beach, and I come out to Palos Verdes Estates to walk your attic or crawl space with you and show you what's there. Then our crew fixes the hot upstairs, the drafty rooms and the cold floors in the order that makes sense.
(424) 254-3847
A lot of the houses I walk through in Palos Verdes Estates are older homes on sloped lots, and the calls usually start the same way. There's a room over the garage that never feels right, an upstairs that runs hot, or an attic nobody's looked at since the house changed hands. Up top I often find insulation that's packed down and thin at the edges, open gaps around can lights and the hatch, and sometimes material that got wet or became home to mice years ago.
Under the house, a slope usually means a crawl space that's tall at one end and a tight squeeze at the other, so I go down and look before I tell you anything about it. Most owners here have never seen their own crawl space, and I'd rather you see it than take my word for it.
Send the form or call, and we'll reply within one business day to set a time, with no obligation to go ahead. I come out to Palos Verdes Estates myself and walk the house with you. Afterward you get photos of what we found and a written plan that shows what comes first and why.
(424) 254-3847When the old attic material is soaked or full of droppings, we start with insulation removal, because there's no point covering a problem you'd have to dig back out later. Next comes air sealing, which means closing the gaps around can lights, pipes and the hatch before any insulation goes in. Then we blow loose fill through a hose and spread it evenly out to the edges, and we keep the eave vents clear so the attic can still breathe. Under the house we insulate crawl spaces and lay vapor barriers. Foam costs more and seals air while it insulates, so I usually point people to sealing plus a loose-fill top-up instead. The exception is a house with ductwork running through the attic, where foam earns its price.
In Palos Verdes Estates, the city's Department of Building and Safety enforces the building code. The city asks homeowners to check with its Planning and Building departments before remodeling or adding vents, so whether your job needs a permit is their call, and that check can add time before we start. For permits through the city's Public Works office, the papers to have ready include a contractor's license and a City Business License, which is worth knowing when you're comparing contractors. We're licensed and fully insured. When a job calls for a permit, I look up what the city asks for at your address, tell you at the estimate, and handle the application as part of the job.
The city's posted construction hours run Monday through Saturday, with shorter days on Friday and Saturday and none on Sunday, so we plan the crew's days around them. The price moves with how much old material has to come out first, how many gaps need sealing, how easy the attic or crawl space is to get into, and whether loose fill or foam suits your house. The schedule turns on that same list, plus any city review. The attic work itself is the same as what we do in Manhattan Beach, but here the paperwork and the city's calendar have more say in the start date, and the estimate is where you see what your job involves, laid out in order.
I walk the house with you and show you what's in the attic or crawl space before anyone picks up a tool. If sealing a few gaps and topping up what's there will fix that hot room, I'll tell you so rather than sell you a bigger job.
Wet insulation, droppings and buried eave vents get handled first, because new material over an old problem just hides it, and the moisture ends up in the framing. It's like painting over rust on a tailgate. It looks fine until it doesn't.
I do every estimate and our crew does the install, then I go up the ladder and check the work before we call it done. Every job is backed by our satisfaction guarantee. Call (424) 254-3847 or send the form to set up a walk-through.
We price each attic after seeing it, and the biggest swing is usually whether the old insulation has to come out before anything new goes in. Choosing foam over loose fill raises the price. An attic with an easy hatch and room to move costs less to work in than a tight one. You'll get your own figure at the estimate.
Look first, then work in order. Removal and repairs come first, air sealing next, and new insulation last. Each step depends on the one before it, the same way you don't bolt a new part onto a bad mount. Your written plan lays out that order for your house and shows where a permit or planning review might move the start date.
If the inspection is called in by 4 PM, the city's inspector comes the following working day, but inspections only happen Monday through Thursday. That means a request made Thursday afternoon usually waits until the next Monday. When your job has a permit, we schedule the work around those days so it isn't left sitting open while we wait on the inspector.
It may, because the city says Homes Association approval is required for most projects in Palos Verdes Estates. I check whether it applies to your attic or crawl space job before we set a date, and I'll tell you what I found at the estimate.
They do if your house is in one of the city's designated Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones, because California's wildland-urban interface code applies to every building in those zones. For a lot that's only partly inside a zone, the city's Building Official decides. If yours is in one, I want to know before we plan the job, so it's worth settling early.
For blown-in loose fill and air sealing, you usually don't have to leave at all, since the crew works up in the attic. Spray foam is different because it has a re-entry time, which is the wait before people and pets can come back inside, and we follow the foam maker's instructions on it. I'll go over that at the estimate so you can plan for the kids and pets.
