Dave Hoh's Home Comfort & Energy Experts Case Studies: Dense Packing Outside Walls & Above Porch in Belmar, NJ

Thursday, March 16th, 2023 by Michael Gloeckler

Challenge

Insufficient or improperly installed wall insulation can lead to air leaks, making your home too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. This problem can also lead to increased utility bills as your HVAC system works harder to compensate for the poor insulation. Also this homeowner in Belmar, NJ has a front porch that’s poorly insulated.

Solution

At Dave Hoh's Home Comfort & Energy Experts, we provide quality wall insulation services using dense packed cellulose insulation. This material fills wall cavities and ensures that your home is fully insulated and remains comfortable and energy efficient.

Our team will safely remove some of the siding of the house in order to drill the proper holes into the side of the house. We will insert a hose into the hole and blow-in our TruSoft cellulose insulation. Next we use our ZypFoam sealant and plug the holes back up. Once our team plugs the holes we will fasten the siding back into place like we were never there.

After the sides of the house are dense packed we will repeat the dense packing process in the front of the house or porch. Lastly, our team will repeat the same process of dense packing but we use a much longer tube or hose to reach deeper into the roofs porch. Finally our customer now has a properly insulated home and a more energy efficient house.

Project Summary

Products Used: TruSoft Cellulose Insulation & ZypFoam Sealant

Dense-packing the exterior walls and front porch's roof in Belmar, NJ.

Front porch that needs proper insulation.

We drill holes into the side of the house after we remove the siding of the house. Each hole is drilled into each cavity or bay wall.

The front porch with holes drilled into the siding of the house. This front porch is ready for dense-packing.

Our team member Louis is using a hose to dense-pack into the cavity walls using our TruSoft cellulose insulation.

Our crew dense-packing and using our ZypFoam sealant to plug back the holes.

Once our team finishes plugging the holes we will refasten the siding of the house.

Nate is removing the siding of the house to get ready to drill into the porch's roof so we can dense pack or insulate the roof.

After the hole is drilled we are ready to insert the large tube into the roof to dense pack and insulate the porch's roof.

This image shows the tube fully inserted into the roof's porch. Once we finish dense packing we will plug the holes and fasten the siding back into place.