Blown-in insulation for the Denver area

Colorado winters are cold and the summers cook the roof deck. The right insulation changes the house and the bill. Blown-in — fiberglass or cellulose — is the cost-effective way to do an attic, a closed wall, and the odd void a batt will not fill.

Why blown-in

Loose-fill is blown into place. It conforms. Irregular bays, the edges, the corners batts bridge over. New house or a 1978 ranch, same machine.

• Coverage. Fewer gaps, less heat loss. The Department of Energy has put heating and cooling at up to about half of a home’s energy use. A dead attic is a large slice of that.
• Price. Material and labor both come in under a batt job that tries to do the same attic by hand.
• Speed. Most attic blows are a day, often less. You are not living in a construction site.
• Life. Blown fiberglass, installed dry and to depth, is a decades-long layer. Cellulose is commonly figured at 20–30 years if it stays dry.
• Noise. The same fill that slows heat also knocks down sound through the ceiling and the walls.

How we do a Denver house

We are Front Range, not a national van that learned your ZIP code this morning. Energy Armor has been insulating here since 2011. The attic target in this climate is high — commonly R-49 to R-60, which is why Colorado guidance talks about a deep attic, on the order of 17 inches once it has settled. We measure what is left and blow until that depth is real.

Every house starts with a look, not a package. Older Denver housing has weird bays and insulation that already gave up. Blown-in fills those. We also air-seal, spot-foam rim joists, and install batts where the framing is open. If you want a recycled fill, cellulose is on the truck.

Xcel rebates come and go. If the R-value is too low, we say whether an instant rebate is actually on the table. We do not invent one.

What people report back

One Denver attic we recharged came back with about a 42% drop in the energy bill within a few months. That is a house, not a promise. Comfort shows up faster than the bill: rooms stop being the hot one and the cold one.

Call (720) 784-4444, text (720) 784-8333, or book the inspection. If the attic is not the leak, we will say so.