Blown-In Cellulose Insulation
Blown-in cellulose insulation fills every gap between joists and trusses, so the top floor of a Kanata house keeps its heat. It is the material we quote most often for attic top-ups.
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Attic Insulation In Kanata, Ontario, Starting With A Free Attic Check
Ontario attic rebates up to $1,250 may applyBook A Free Attic Check
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Expect a call, ideally before the end of the business day, to book the free photo check.
For anything urgent, call +1 (343) 301-5498.
Kanata Attic Insulation provides attic insulation top-ups in cellulose or fiberglass, attic air sealing, hatch insulation and full replacement for houses in Kanata, Stittsville and the countryside west of them. All of our attic work is fully insured. No attic insulation price is given until our free attic photo check is done, so your quote arrives with pictures of your attic attached.
Call (343) 301-5498 to book your free attic check.
Why Us
Why Choose Kanata Attic Insulation
Few owners have ever poked their head through the ceiling hatch, which makes an attic insulation price hard to judge. Our free attic photo check solves that. One of us goes up with a camera, a ruler and a light, pushes a ruler down to the drywall in several bays and photographs the vents, the eaves and every gap we find. Those pictures land in your inbox before any number does.
The attic insulation quote is then written against those pictures. Photo three shows the settled cellulose, so line three prices the top-up, with the material, inches, R-value and square feet beside it. Sealing, baffles and the hatch sit on lines of their own. Read how a Kanata job unfolds from first call to clean-up, or send a few words about the house and we will phone to book a time.
Attic services
Attic Insulation Services In Kanata
One card per job, covering loose fill, sealing, venting, the hatch and that chilly bedroom above the garage.
Blown-In Fiberglass Insulation
Blown-in fiberglass insulation is loose glass fibre blown through a hose into the attic, where it builds a light, even layer over the ceiling. It does not absorb water and it does not settle much, which makes it a steady choice for an attic that will be left alone for decades.
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Attic Insulation Replacement
Attic insulation replacement is a clear-out and a refill: the old layer is vacuumed away, the attic is cleaned, and new loose fill goes in to R-60. It is the answer when the existing material is soaked, mouldy, fouled by animals or crushed flat.
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Attic Air Sealing
Attic air sealing plugs the holes in your top-floor ceiling where heated indoor air sneaks up under the roof. Loose fill slows heat soaking through drywall, yet air pours through an open hole as if the fill were not there.
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Attic Hatch Insulation
Attic hatch insulation turns the thin panel in your closet or hallway ceiling into a sealed, insulated door. A bare hatch is often a single layer of drywall resting loosely on a wood frame.
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Attic Ventilation And Baffles
Attic ventilation lets outside air enter at the soffits and leave near the peak, which keeps the attic close to the outdoor temperature and carries moisture away. A cold, dry attic means snow melts less from below, the roof boards stay sound and the insulation stays dry.
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Bonus Room Insulation
Bonus room insulation fixes the room that sits over an attached garage and never feels like the rest of the house. That room has a cold garage under its floor, short knee walls with attic space behind them and a sloped ceiling under the roof.
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Ontario Attic Insulation Rebate
Ontario's attic insulation rebate is part of Home Renovation Savings, a joint effort of Enbridge Gas and Save on Energy. It returns money to owners who take a thin attic to R-50 or better.
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Attic Insulation Cost
Attic insulation cost in Kanata comes down to four things: square footage, material, the depth already there and whether old fill must come out.
View Attic Insulation CostWhat Might Your Attic Insulation Cost?
Choose a job, type the ceiling area in square feet and see the usual Ontario range for it. After the photo check, the range becomes one written figure.
Read these as provincial going rates rather than our quote. Headroom, the depth already there and any clear-out shift the figure, and small jobs begin near $1,000.
Typical installed range
Every Attic Check Comes With These Five Things
These five things happen on every attic insulation visit in Kanata, from a small bungalow to a large two-story house.
- You get dated photos of the insulation, the vents and the hatch, so the problem is on your phone and not just in our notes.
- The current depth is measured in several spots and written down as an R-value.
- Air leaks around pot lights, pipes, wires and the hatch are pointed out in the photos.
- Your written quote lists each item with its own price, so you can choose what to do now.
- Nothing about the photo check is billed: not the visit, not the pictures and not the attic insulation quote.
Most attic checks take about half an hour.
Ruler readings, pictures of every corner, a look at the vents and the hatch, then a written quote by email, all free.
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Benefits
What Are The Benefits Of Attic Insulation?
Upstairs bedrooms hold their heat through a January night instead of cooling off by morning.
The furnace runs shorter cycles in winter and the air conditioner works less in July, which lowers both bills.
Sealed ceiling openings stop the warm, damp house air that turns into frost on the roof boards.
A cold roof keeps snow sitting evenly on the shingles, so fewer icicles and ice ridges form at the eaves.
A thick blanket of loose fill softens the hum of Highway 417 and the Terry Fox Drive traffic in upstairs bedrooms.
Blown-in insulation fills around every truss and wire, so there are no gaps where batts would leave them.
Is Your Top Floor Cold All Winter?
We measure the attic, photograph the leaks and price each fix on one written quote.
Attic insulation details for Kanata homes
Kanata's First Houses Have The Thinnest Attics
Attic insulation in the oldest Kanata homes is usually far below what the house needs today. Beaverbrook and Glen Cairn were built in the 1960s and 1970s, when a few inches in the attic counted as plenty. Natural Resources Canada now suggests about R-60 for an Ottawa attic, which is roughly four times what many of those houses started with.
In these homes a top-up is usually all the attic insulation work required. The open gaps get sealed, and fresh loose fill is then layered on the old until the rulers read R-60. The blown-in cellulose insulation page walks through the method and the price.
A Cold Bedroom Over The Garage Points To The Ceiling Above It
A room over an attached garage is the room most Kanata owners call us about. Bridlewood, Morgan's Grant and Kanata Lakes are full of two-story houses with a bedroom or bonus room sitting over the garage. That room has a cold garage below, short attic walls beside it and a sloped ceiling above, so it loses heat on three sides.
The fix is usually a mix of attic insulation, sealing and work on the short walls. Our bonus room insulation page shows what we check and how we treat each part.
Old Cellulose Settles Below The Depth It Was Sold At
Loose cellulose sinks a little after it is blown, and older attics often had no extra depth added for that. Twenty or thirty years later, the attic insulation may be several inches thinner than the bag chart called for. Foot traffic during cable, solar or bathroom fan work flattens it further.
We measure the real depth in several places and blow fresh cellulose to the full R-value, with extra height allowed for settling. If you would rather use fiberglass, our blown-in fiberglass insulation page compares the two side by side.
Frost On The Roof Boards Starts With Leaks In The Ceiling
Air rising from a heated house is damp. During a week of minus twenty, that dampness turns to white frost on each nail tip poking through the roof sheathing. The first mild day melts it, and the drips soak the attic insulation and stain the bedroom ceiling. A roofer gets the call, yet the water started indoors.
Stopping that rising air is the real fix. With attic air sealing, each pot light housing, pipe hole, wire hole, wall top and hatch edge is closed up before a single bag of loose fill is opened.
Blocked Soffit Vents Leave A Wet, Stuffy Attic
Outside air is meant to enter an attic through the soffits and exit up high. Stuff the low corners with attic insulation and that intake is choked, so moisture lingers under the roof. Grey or black speckles on the sheathing and a stale smell at the hatch tell the story.
Foam or cardboard chutes stapled between rafters keep that intake open while the loose fill stays put. Our attic ventilation and baffles page also covers roof vents, gable louvres and bathroom fans that were left blowing into the attic.
An Attic Hatch With Nothing On It Leaks Heat Every Day
A bare ceiling hatch is often a thin sheet of drywall with no seal around it. Warm air slips past the edges all winter, and the hatch can feel as cold as a window. In closets and hallways across Kanata, we find hatches with no weatherstripping and no insulation on top.
We weatherstrip the frame and fix a rigid insulated cover to the top of the hatch. The attic hatch insulation page explains the options and the price.
Wet, Dirty Or Mouse-Damaged Attic Insulation Should Come Out
Attic insulation that a leak has soaked, raccoons have flattened or mice have fouled is past saving, and covering it with a fresh layer only hides it. The right move is a full clear-out by vacuum, a clean deck, and then new loose fill.
Our attic insulation replacement service removes the old material through a sealed hose to a truck outside, seals the attic floor and then blows in fresh insulation to R-60.
What Attic Insulation Costs In Kanata
A typical Kanata attic insulation bill lands somewhere from $1,200 to $3,500. Topping up with cellulose is commonly $1.25 to $2.50 a square foot of ceiling area. Clearing out the old layer and starting fresh is commonly $3 to $5.50 a square foot, and the smallest jobs begin near $1,000.
Treat those as Ontario going rates; the number for your house comes after the photo check, in writing. Our attic insulation cost page lists what pushes a job up or down.
The Ontario Attic Insulation Rebate Has Two Paths
Ontario's Home Renovation Savings program has two routes to an attic insulation rebate. The quick route skips the energy audit, yet it pays out only for installers named on the program's own approved list. The longer route books an energy advisor at the start and the finish, asks for two or more upgrades and leaves the choice of installer to you.
The Ontario attic insulation rebate page sets out the amounts, who qualifies and how to check the current rules before you book.
Our Process
What Happens During An Attic Insulation Job?
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First comes the free attic check, where we measure what is there, photograph it and email you a written quote with each item priced separately.
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Install day starts with drop cloths laid in a path from your front entry to the hatch, plus plastic over whatever sits below it.
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Up in the attic, the gaps are sealed and the eave chutes are stapled in while the old layer is still easy to see.
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Insulation is blown from a hose run from our truck, and depth rulers are set out so you can see the final level.
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We clean up, take after photos and walk you through them, with the finished R-value written on your invoice.
Get A Written Attic Insulation Quote
Start with a free attic photo check: pictures, a ruler-measured R-value and a quote with a separate line for every task.
Service Area
Serving Kanata, Stittsville And The West End Countryside
Kanata Attic Insulation covers all of Kanata, a former city that became a ward of Ottawa in the 2001 amalgamation. Our attic insulation visits reach Beaverbrook, Katimavik-Hazeldean, Glen Cairn, Bridlewood, Morgan's Grant, Kanata Lakes, Marchwood and the newest streets up in Kanata North.
We also cover Stittsville and the rural west end, from Carp and Dunrobin out to Fitzroy Harbour and Constance Bay. If you are not sure whether we reach your road, call and ask.
Free Estimate
Tell Us About Your Attic
Two or three lines about the house and its cold rooms make the photo check go faster. Calls go to +1 (343) 301-5498.
Thanks — your request has been received.
Expect a call, ideally before the end of the business day, to book the free photo check.
For anything urgent, call +1 (343) 301-5498.
Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
No calendar rule applies. A top-up makes sense once the joists poke above the loose fill, once trades have trampled paths through it, or when the house went up with a small fraction of R-60.
Natural Resources Canada suggests about R-60 for attics in the Ottawa area, and that is the level we normally quote. R-60 works out to roughly 17 inches of blown cellulose or a little over 20 inches of blown fiberglass.
Usually, yes. Old loose fill that is dry, clean and not vermiculite becomes the bottom of the new layer once the ceiling gaps are sealed. Soaked, mouldy or fouled material is removed before anything is added.
Expect a morning or an early afternoon for a normal Kanata top-up. A clear-out before the new layer stretches it to a second day.
It is. You pay nothing for the visit, the pictures or the attic insulation quote, and you are under no pressure to go ahead.