Window Caulking Chicago
A significant amount of heat loss in residential properties occurs due to air leakage. Addressing and sealing air leaks can be a more cost-effective solution compared to adding insulation to walls. By effectively sealing air leaks, homeowners can improve energy efficiency and reduce heating and cooling costs.
Ensuring that your windows are properly caulked is essential for maintaining energy efficiency and protecting your home from the elements. In Chicago, where the weather can be particularly harsh, professional window caulking services are crucial. Expert caulking not only prevents drafts and reduces energy bills but also protects against water damage and pest infiltration.
Ensuring that your windows are properly caulked is essential for maintaining energy efficiency and protecting your home from the elements. In Chicago, where the weather can be particularly harsh, professional window caulking services are crucial. Expert caulking not only prevents drafts and reduces energy bills but also protects against water damage and pest infiltration.
Prevent Wind Effect
Seal Exterior Dissimilar Materials
Seal Interior Pressure Barrier
Drafty windows? Where Do I Need to Caulk Windows?
Heat Rises and Escapes to The Top of The Home Out The Seams Sucking in Replacement Air (pascals law)
Replace broken caulk inside and outside around the window frame. Misguided (maybe well meaning) advertisements recommend replacing your windows to make your home more comfortable. This is misleading, and cause a waste of good windows, money, time, and energy to replace them instead of simply re-caulking exterior seams, and touching up interior trim doors and windows caulk.
BEFORE air sealing, the discovery of perfect black lines corresponding with seams of the floor and wall from the living space below.
Drafty windows? When is the last time the caulk / window sealant was maintained?
Drafty Home? Already Insulated? What May Be Causing Drafts and Cold Floors?
Before buying new windows, consider the dissimilar materials around the windows that may be broken, dried, peeled, exposed, or missing. Broken caulk around windows can be easily resolved with new caulk. Missing / peeled, dried caulk let in air into the wall cavity and framing and comes out the trim and outlets ( path of least resistance ). Window caulk is used for window insulation. The main purpose of window caulking is to keep your home better insulated by not allowing any air to slip in our out. Depending on the time of the year, caulking will help you keep your home warm or cool. Some of the materials used for window caulk are polysulfides, silicone, butyl rubber, neoprene, acrylic latex and many more.
Cold Floors? Where is the air coming in from. Outside!
Chicago Bungalow Homes and Similar Styles Have Exterior Seams Which Often Go Unmaintained and Unnoticed.
In order for the ceiling floor or wall insulation to retain heat, the room must not be loosing heat to drafts. Cold air intake from wind effect and stack effect causes immediate heat loss as the furnace warm cozy air loses heat instantaneously to the outside intruder.
Solution: air seal exterior building envelope with appropriate exterior caulk or sealant by a local painter or handyman with the intent of sealing gaps.
Solution: air seal exterior building envelope with appropriate exterior caulk or sealant by a local painter or handyman with the intent of sealing gaps.
Cold rooms in the home may be from broken window caulk.
Cold Floors as a Result of Leaks From The Exterior.
In order for the ceiling floor or wall insulation to retain heat, the room must not be loosing heat to drafts. Cold air intake from wind effect and stack effect causes immediate heat loss as the furnace warm cozy air loses heat instantaneously to the outside intruder.
Solution: air seal exterior building envelope with appropriate exterior caulk or sealant by a local painter or handyman with the intent of sealing gaps.
Solution: air seal exterior building envelope with appropriate exterior caulk or sealant by a local painter or handyman with the intent of sealing gaps.
Green Attic Insulation Customer Reviews
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8 days ago
Romuno and his team came on time and were very cordial and friendly. They discovered
an issue with some electrical work while working on the insulation, which I was surprised and happy about, and were able to rectify the situation easily and at a great value, considering the timing of the project, etc. Romuno made it clear he want to ensure my satisfaction throughout the process. When finished, the job site was cleaned very well.
I highly recommend this company and all its team members and hope to do more projects in the future with them!
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8 days ago
Romulo and his teammate were so fast and clean at insulating and repairing our damaged
ceiling due to a roof leak. Again it was easy to engage green Attic as a return customer because I felt well treated with their work when they first insulated and managed.to transform our cold home. Great job!
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22 days ago
Fantastic work. No nonsense, clean job site, speedy and good communication.
an issue with some electrical work while working on the insulation, which I was surprised and happy about, and were able to rectify the situation easily and at a great value, considering the timing of the project, etc. Romuno made it clear he want to ensure my satisfaction throughout the process. When finished, the job site was cleaned very well.
I highly recommend this company and all its team members and hope to do more projects in the future with them!
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1 month ago
Had our attic insulation beefed up with new blown in cellulose. Was a major improvement
immediatly after it was installed. Cut our heating needs by 3x to maintain temperature in the house.Team working on my house was friendly and professional. Team leads Romulo and Omar did a great job making sure everything was done right and everything was cleaned up after.
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2 months ago
Romulo & Alvaro did a great job installing everything. Cindy, Frank and the Green Attic team
were extremely attentive. I love how easy they made the process, everything is online even the rebates.
BONUS: I originally reached out to them to check for mold free of charge.
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2 months ago
These guys did a great job! Great price, quality service, and they offer several payment
options and plans. I thought we bought a lemon of a house and the insulation and sealing job they did fixed all of our issues and were so thrilled! Highly recommend these guys. Plus they are local so it’s great supporting a chicago based company.
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3 months ago
Highly recommend Green Attic. Scheduled to have my attic re-insulated and Romulo
and his crew did a fabulous job. The attic was in pretty bad shape prior to the work getting done and green attic made it look so good. The crew worked efficiently and got the job done in 2 days. I also asked Romulo to install a couple other things on my roof outside of the scheduled project and he very kindly and willingly did so without hesitation. Very pleased with how everything turned out. Thank you so much for a job well done! Before and after pics below.
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