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Air Sealing and Insulation

Properly air sealing and insulating your home will not only help reduce your heating and cooling costs, but also make your home more comfortable.

Sealing and insulating the "envelope" or "shell" of your home—its outer walls, ceiling, windows, doors, and floors—is often the most cost effective way to improve energy efficiency and comfort. You can save up to 20% on heating and cooling costs (or up to 10% on total annual energy bills) by sealing and insulating. Seal air leaks throughout the home to stop drafts. Add insulation to block heat loss in winter and heat gain in summer.

Many air leaks and drafts are easy to find because they are easy to feel — like those around windows and doors. But holes hidden in attics, basements, and crawlspaces are usually bigger problems. Sealing these leaks with caulk, spray foam, or weather stripping will have a great impact on improving your comfort and reducing utility bills. Let our team evaulate any problem areas and make recommendations for the most cost effective solutions.

BENEFITS

Lower utility bills
Improved comfort, especially during summer and winter
Reduced noise from outside
Less pollen, dust, and insects entering your home
Better humidity control

Efficiency Matters uses the latest technology and greenest materials to seal your home. We offer all kinds of insulation services from blown in loose fill to rigid foam. Call us today for a free consultation.

Examples:

Attic insulation - We use cellulose insulation for 98% of all of our jobs. We strongly believe that cellulose insulation is better for you than fiberglass (and others) in many ways including indoor air quality, R-value per inch, sound proofing and overall air barrier properties. The cellulose insulation we use is manufactured locally out of Penrose, Colorado and is made up of 85% recycled materials. The R-value is 3.6 per inch when applied as loose fill in your attic. For more information on Applegate Cellulose insulation visit:

http://www.applegateinsulation.com

Vacuum and air seal attic - We use a 15hp vacuum to temporarily or permanently remove the insulation in your attic so that we can approach the attic as if it were brand new. Taking out the insulation allows us to see all of the penetrations throughout your attic. We consider this approach best practice and you'll gain the most in energy savings and comfort from this method. We use 2-part Handi Foam to seal all penetrations and top plates including the top plates at the exterior wall.

Vacuming	Cleared attic
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Dense pack exterior walls - We can dense packing your exterior walls with cellulose insulation by using a method called drill and fill. We will place wood plugs when done.

Filling	Sealing
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Spray foam attic walls - Installing Comfort RX spray foam to your attic walls will increase the R-value and add an air barrier.

Insulating Attic Walls - We install Comfort RX spray foam to your attic walls which will increase the R-value and add an air barrier. You can see the dark areas in the fiberglass which is evidence of air leakage (not a problem after foam.

Attick Wall Before	Attick Wall After
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Insulating crawl space - Insulating and airsealing your crawl space rim and joist and foundation walls with 2-part spray foam.

Crawl space joist	Rim Joist 2	Crawl space walls	Crawl space walls
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Seal around furnace flue - Here we installed a metal collar around a furnace flue which will keep insulation 2" away from the fire source. We also sealed around the flue connection with fire rated caulk and/or spray foam.

Before	After
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About Us

Our approach is to LOOK, LISTEN, EVALUATE, and UNDERSTAND.
These are the core principles that guide us through our everyday business.

Greg Fox - Owner
Greg has been involved with residential construction and green building for the last 6 years.
His passion is creating ideal situations for homeowners so they can safely and comfortably
enjoy their time spent at home. This is important since purchasing a home is on average the
largest investment you will make in your lifetime.

In his spare time he enjoys fishing, skiing, working on his own home, and in general, enjoying
what Colorado has to offer.

Credentials/Certifications

BPI Certified Building Analyst
RESNET Certified Energy Rater
LEED Green Associate
Colorado State University; Green Building Certificate
Northern Arizona University; B.S. in Environmental Sciences

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Northern Colorado: 970-556-1249
Denver: 720-515-1250

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greg@efficiencymatters.net

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What our customers are saying

At Efficiency Matters, your comfort and complete satisfaction is our top priority.
We would be glad to provide references so you can hear about us first hand.

Here are just a few examples of what our customers are saying.

Ryan and Katy Kirkpatrick of Wellington, CO
"We would definitely recommend having an energy audit done by Efficiency Matters.
Greg was knowledgeable, professional and honest. We really appreciated that he told us about many improvements that we could do ourselves (and exactly how to do them), in addition to completing two larger improvements for us. We found the price of these “retrofits” reasonable and workmanship excellent! As first-time homeowners, this was a great investment for us and we are very happy with the company we chose. Thanks Greg!"

Gary Zook of Fort Collins, CO
I would describe Greg as honest, thoughtful, conscientious, thorough, and hard working. I've worked with many contractors through the years and while most of them do a decent job, a few of them really impress with both their skills and attitude. Greg is one of the best and I would not hesitate to recommend him for improving the energy efficiency of your home.
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Scott Rogers of Windsor, CO
Greg, I wanted to give you a follow-up on how things are working. Since yesterday was such a hot day we really got to see how things were working. I must say we are VERY HAPPY with the results. Amy said the house stayed very cool until after 7:00PM. Then the A/C came on for only a few minutes. We used the Whole House Fan around 9:00 PM and it cooled the upstairs 2 degrees (making the whole house the same temp). We slept very comfortably last night. This is exactly the results we were hoping for. Thank you so much!