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Serving Urbana, IL and surrounding areas. (217) 207-0899
If your Urbana home is losing heat through a thin or uneven attic, blown-in insulation fills every gap and gets your energy bills back under control.
Blown-in insulation in Urbana is loose-fill fiberglass or cellulose material blown into your attic or walls through a hose, covering irregular framing and gaps that rigid batts cannot reach - most attic jobs are finished in two to four hours.
Older homes near the University of Illinois campus are some of the best candidates for this service. If your attic has settled, compressed insulation from the 1960s or 1970s, blown-in material goes right on top without disturbing what is already there. Many Urbana homeowners also pair this service with home insulation work in walls and lower levels of the house to address comfort problems from top to bottom.
If your furnace runs nearly constantly during Urbana's coldest weeks, heat is likely escaping through the attic rather than staying in your living space. Neighbors in similar homes paying noticeably less is a reliable signal worth investigating.
Bedrooms that are freezing in winter and sweltering in summer point to heat moving through the ceiling rather than being slowed by insulation. This is especially common in Urbana homes with finished attic spaces that were never properly insulated.
If you can clearly see the wooden beams running across the attic floor, the insulation is too thin. A properly insulated attic should look like a thick, even blanket with the joists completely buried. Many pre-1980 Urbana homes have just a thin, compressed layer.
Ice dams form when heat escaping through the attic melts snow on the upper roof, and that water refreezes at the cold eaves. Urbana's January and February freeze-thaw cycles make this a real seasonal risk - and it almost always points to an under-insulated attic.
Our blown-in insulation work covers attic floors, bonus rooms, and hard-to-reach wall cavities. We use both fiberglass and cellulose materials depending on what your project calls for, and every job begins with an air-sealing pass to close gaps around light fixtures and plumbing penetrations before the material goes in. We also pair blown-in attic work with full home insulation assessments when homeowners want to address the whole house in one visit.
For walls in older Urbana homes, we offer dense-pack blown-in through small holes drilled in the exterior or interior surface - a method that adds real performance without a full renovation. If your project includes walls with older wiring, we will flag that during the assessment and coordinate with an electrician before any material goes in. We also handle wall insulation as a standalone service for homeowners focused specifically on exterior walls.
Ideal for homes with existing insulation that needs topping up or attics with irregular framing that batts cannot fill evenly.
Best for older Urbana homes with hollow wall cavities where adding insulation without removing drywall or siding is the priority.
Urbana sits in central Illinois, where winter temperatures regularly drop below 10 degrees and summer heat pushes past 90 degrees. That wide swing means your insulation is working hard in both directions, and the payback on upgrading tends to be faster here than in milder climates. The energy experts at the U.S. Department of Energy recommend attic insulation levels of R-49 to R-60 for central Illinois, which translates to roughly 14 to 18 inches of blown-in material. Many Urbana homes built before 1980 have a fraction of that.
We work throughout Urbana and the surrounding area regularly. Homeowners in Champaign and Rantoul face the same climate and housing stock challenges as Urbana - older construction, minimal original insulation, and long heating seasons that punish under-insulated attics. Ameren Illinois also offers rebates for qualifying insulation upgrades, and we can help you understand whether your project qualifies.
We respond within one business day. During that first call we ask a few simple questions about your home - age, what you have been noticing, and whether you have had any previous insulation work done.
We come to your home and go up into the attic to measure what is already there. We check for moisture, pest activity, or blocked vents that need to be addressed before anything new goes in. You get a written estimate before we leave.
Before the blowing starts, we seal gaps around light fixtures, plumbing pipes, and attic bypasses. This step is often skipped by contractors cutting corners, but it makes a significant difference in how the insulation performs.
The crew blows in the insulation and leaves depth markers so you can verify coverage yourself before we leave your driveway. There is no curing time - the insulation works immediately, and you will notice the difference within the first heating or cooling cycle.
Free estimate, no obligation. We respond within one business day.
(217) 207-0899We leave small plastic depth markers throughout the insulation so you can verify coverage yourself before we leave. You should never have to take a contractor's word that the depth is correct - you can see it.
Many contractors skip the air-sealing step to save time. We include it because insulation without air-sealing leaves a significant amount of heat loss on the table, especially in older Urbana homes with decades of gaps in the attic floor.
From older brick homes near downtown to postwar ranch houses on the south side, we have worked on the range of construction that makes up Urbana's neighborhoods. We know what to look for and what to flag before work starts.
We are familiar with the current Ameren Illinois rebate program and can help you understand whether your project qualifies. A contractor who has never heard of the program is a signal worth noticing. Learn more at the North American Insulation Manufacturers Association (naima.org).
These proof points come back to one thing: we do the work the way it should be done, and we make it easy for you to verify that before we leave. Call us or submit a request and we will show you what that looks like in practice.
Whole-home insulation assessments covering the attic, walls, basement, and crawl space in a single visit.
Learn MoreDense-pack insulation added to exterior wall cavities with minimal disruption to finished surfaces.
Learn MoreSpots fill before the coldest months - call now or submit a request and we will get back to you within one business day.