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Residential Spray Foam Insulation in Alamogordo

Spray foam for attics, roof decks, walls, and crawl spaces in Alamogordo homes, from houses built as Holloman grew to new builds and mountain homes in High Rolls. Open-cell or closed-cell, matched to the house.

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Residential Spray Foam in Alamogordo

Why Alamogordo home insulation usually starts in the attic

Alamogordo more than tripled in size during the 1950s as Holloman Air Force Base grew, and it kept building through the 1970s and ’80s. That leaves a lot of houses in town with decades-old attic insulation that has settled thin, and with air slipping out around light fixtures, the attic access, and the seams where walls meet the ceiling. The ductwork often runs up there too. The basin floor sees close to 90 days a year over 90 degrees, and on every one of them the roof is cooking the attic and the ducts inside it. Winter brings plenty of freezing mornings, and on those mornings heated air escapes upward through the same leaks.

So in an Alamogordo house, spray foam usually starts overhead. Open-cell foam sprayed under the roof deck fills the rafter bays and closes the attic off from the outside, so the ducts end up on the cool side of the insulation. Closed-cell is denser and gives more R per inch, so it goes where depth is short or moisture is a concern: a shallow roofline, the rim joists, a crawl space. Finished walls, stucco or block, are harder to get into than an open attic, which is one more reason to start with the roof.

Typical home insulation jobs in Alamogordo

  • Roof-deck foam in houses built in the 1960s and ’70s
  • Attics where old blown-in insulation has settled thin over ductwork
  • Add-on bedrooms and enclosed porches on older houses that bake by afternoon
  • New houses and remodels foamed while the walls are still open
  • Closed-cell on rim joists and floors of homes up in High Rolls

What we plan around in Alamogordo

  • Close to 90 days a year over 90 degrees, heating attic ducts
  • Below-freezing winter mornings, when warm air escapes through the ceiling
  • Summer monsoon storms, so we look for roof leaks before foaming the deck
  • Snowier High Rolls winters that shift more attention to floors and crawl spaces

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Walk the house

    We look at the attic, walls, and crawl space and recommend open-cell or closed-cell foam for each.

  2. Step 2

    Prep

    Floors, windows, and anything nearby get covered, and the work area is ventilated.

  3. Step 3

    Spray

    Foam goes on to the thickness in the estimate, sealing gaps as it expands.

  4. Step 4

    Check and clean up

    We check coverage, clean up, and tell you when the space is ready to use again.

Also serving: La Luz, Boles Acres, High Rolls, Tularosa.

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Spray foam insulation guide

Open-cell or closed-cell spray foam for your house?

Both foams seal air and insulate, but they are different materials with different jobs. Here is what each one is, where it belongs in a New Mexico house, and how the choice gets made.

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Rebates and tax credits

Insulation rebates and tax credits in New Mexico

New Mexico’s utilities run home efficiency programs, and the federal homeowner credit has ended for new work. Here is who runs what, what the PNM, New Mexico Gas Company and IRS pages said when we checked, and how to keep a rebate from slipping away.

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Getting a New Mexico attic ready for winter

Cold nights come fast at this altitude, and most of the heat a house loses in winter goes out through the attic. Here is what to look at up there before the first freeze, and what it means.

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Residential Spray Foam in Alamogordo: common questions

Often, yes. Rooms added onto older Alamogordo houses, like enclosed porches and extra bedrooms, were often built with a low-slope roof, thin insulation, and walls that were never sealed well. Foam in the roof cavity, and in any walls we can open, gives that room the same shell as the rest of the house. If the duct run to the room is long or too small, that’s an HVAC question, and we’ll tell you if it looks like part of the problem.
It depends on what’s up there. Blown-in that has settled thin still leaves the ceiling full of air leaks, and it does nothing for ductwork baking in the attic. If the ducts are up there, foam under the roof deck usually does more than adding loose fill on top. If nothing is up there but joists and the old insulation is still in decent shape, foam may not be worth the cost, and we’ll tell you that.
Often, yes. High Rolls sits around 6,700 feet, a couple thousand feet above Alamogordo, so winters are colder and snowier and the heating season runs longer. Up there, closed-cell below the floor and on the rim joists tends to count for more, along with the roof. We insulate homes across the area: Alamogordo, High Rolls, La Luz, Tularosa, and Boles Acres.

Need home insulation in Alamogordo?

Send the address, roughly how big the house is, and whether it’s the attic, walls, or crawl space you’re after, and we’ll arrange a site visit.

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