Keeping your home or business warm in the winter and cool in the summer is one of the major monthly expenses you incur. Your heating or cooling system may be up to the job, but if your home or office isn't properly insulated, your heating and cooling dollars may be leaking out at an alarming rate.

Even if your home or office was well insulated when it was constructed, there may be more we can do to tighten up your space. Wall cavity and attic insulation tends to settle over the years, making it less effective. Also, standards have changed. What was considered as adequate insulation in the past may not cut it today.

Hochstedler Energy Systems uses blown cellulose insulation by Energy Control Inc. because it is frankly the best available.

"R- Value" (an expression of heat transfer resistance) is the standard for measuring insulation performance. At 3.8 per inch cellulose insulation is considerably better than most mineral fiber blowing wools, but R-value is only one factor in the energy efficiency of a home. Studies of actual buildings regularly show that cellulose-insulated buildings may use 20% to 30% less energy than buildings with fibre glass, but even if the R-value of the insulation in the walls and ceilings are identical. One reason for this is the capacity of cellulose to stop air infiltration.

Cellulose fills walls and stops air infiltration better!
Demonstrations using transparent plastic "walls" show the superiority of cellulose in filling existing walls with many fewer gaps and voids than mineral fiber materials.