True R-Value

True R-Value is the attic air sealing and insulation specialist dedicated to services that deliver the biggest potential improvement for comfort in your home. We like to say the best procedure for improving your home is to "seal tight and insulate right!" Ture R-Value technicians are trained to view your home as a complete system, and to identify areas where your energy efficiency investment can make the biggest impact. Our experience in Austin's hot, humid climate is that attic air sealing and insulation replacement can make a big difference in your family's health and comfort-as well as a difference (reduction) in energy costs!

True R-Value uses low-pressure spray foam to seal the attic floor, which is also forms the ceiling of your home's main living areas. Our first step is to perform a home energy audit to identify areas where you home's insulation may be leaking. Attics are full of the contaminants that can make your family miserable: dust, mold, allergens, fumes, rodent feces, moisture and combustion fumes. Proper air sealing ensures these contaminants will not be circulated throughout the rest of your home. In most homes, we will identify places where air conditioning is leaking out of your home and is being replaced by sometimes-contaminated attic air, an issue that costs you money and makes your AC work harder than it has to.

Cellulose insulation is made from recycled wood cellulose, primarily in the form of post-consumer recycled newsprint-a great use for all those papers we place in the blue recycling bin each week! Cellulose generally consists of 75% to 85% recycled newspaper and other paper products. The remaining content is usually a boric acid fire retardant. Cellulose is preferred by some homeowners because it contains more recycled material than fiberglass, which may only be 50% recycled material. Comparable in cost to other types of blown-in insulation, cellulose offers a choice for recycled content that meets energy efficiency standards while making the world a little better.

Your attic insulation is an essential part of home energy savings. Insulation keeps your home in Austin, TX cool in the summer, warm in the winter and comfortable all year long. Many homeowners don't know what kind or how effective their home's current attic insulation is. True R-Value has the home performance expertise to assess your current insulation and determine if replacement-combined with attic air sealing-is the best way to improve your home's comfort and efficiency. There are many types of attic insulation available, but there is a single rating that is the best indication of their performance: R-value.

Energy audits are a great first step to improving your home's energy efficiency, comfort and health. As certified building performance experts, the True R-Value professionals can use several tools and techniques to identify air leakage and poor insulation in your Austin-area home's attic area. We use several tools to perform an energy audit on your home in Austin, TX, paired with a visual inspection of your home's particular characteristics. Each tool can measure and identify an aspect in your home where energy efficiency needs improvement.

First used in residential applications in 1938, fiberglass became the safe replacement for asbestos, which was found to cause cancer. True R-Value uses blown-in loose fiberglass because the application is fast, and allows us to adjust the depth to meet R-value requirements. True R-Value uses Certainteed Insulsafe blown-in insulation for most applications because of its quality and ready availability. Fiberglass provides a range of benefits when installed in Austin, Texas homes, where hot, humid weather is the norm.