Insulation Blowing???

We recently bought a cape style house and are looking to insulate the walls in the house. Has anyone done this before and you share your experience. Did you do-it-yourself or hire a contractor to do it? We are looking into both depending on the cost and difficulty of the job. Any advice would be helpful.

If you did do-it-yourself, where did you go about renting the machine? We looked at Home depot and lowes and they only had the machines to blow insulation into the attic.

THANKS IN ADVANCE!!

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We had this done in our side den, which was a very cold room when we first bought the house (there is a crawl space under it and was no insulation between the ceiling and roof). We hired a company to blow insulation into the walls and above the ceiling, and were very happy with the results. The room isn't cold at all anymore!

Unless you are very handy, I think I'd let the professionals handle it, just based on all the work they had to do.

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Ditto. Also, just wondering, if you don't mind giving a ballpark figure of what this costs? just trying to prepare for these not fun expenses of owning a home.

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I'm 99% sure this is the company we used: http://www.econotherm.com/insul.htm#

I'll ask my husband later to confirm. It's been three years since we did it, so my memory is a little fuzzy on the details.

I want to say it was approx. $700 for a blowing insulation into three outside walls of a room that is around 8 x 12, putting in a vapor barrier in the crawl space beneath, and a roof vent.

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We used JC Homecare to do two different parts of our home over a 2 year period. I think it was about $900 do do the one-car garage that had been converted to a family room, and about $1300 to do the upstairs attic bedroom area. They were terrific, clean, prompt - can't say anything bad about them, and you can have them come back later (during cold weather) and they will use a heat sensor to determine if heat is leaking due to the insulation settling, and they will re-fill that area at no additional charge. Because ours were small jobs and DH could be flexible with scheduling they were able to give us a better price by fitting us between some bigger jobs. We had a few days notice so it worked out fine. It only took a few hours to do. they are fully licencese in NYC, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester - main office is in Farmingdale - 631-756-5600

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We had it done in our garage a few years ago because we have bedrooms that sit above our garage and they were chilly in the winter. It took the men a whole day to do.

I will look up who we used and what we had blown in and post back. I have the records somewhere here!!

ETA: We used Federal Conservation Group

718-847-6137
631-264-7271

We worked with Joey.