Insulation Contractor Serving Philadelphia & New Jersey

Most homeowners do not call an insulation contractor because they are thinking about R-values. They call because the room over the garage never gets warm, the second floor is ten degrees hotter than the first, or the heating bill keeps climbing in a house that has not changed. Insulation and air leakage are usually where those problems start.

Synergy3 Home Solutions has worked on homes across Philadelphia and New Jersey since 2006. We are a family-run, privately owned company, our insulation crews are BPI-certified, and we look at insulation, air sealing and your heating and cooling system together rather than in isolation. Get in touch to talk through what your home needs.

Our Insulation Services

Attic Insulation

The attic is where most homes lose the most energy, and it is usually the cheapest place to fix it. We assess what is up there now, air seal the ceiling plane, and bring the attic up to the depth your home actually needs. See attic insulation.

Blown-In Insulation

Loose-fill cellulose or fiberglass blown into an attic fills around joists, wiring and framing in a way that batts placed by hand cannot. It is the standard approach for adding depth to an existing attic floor. See blown-in insulation.

Batt Insulation

Pre-cut fiberglass or mineral wool batts are installed between studs and joists in walls, floors and accessible attic bays. Fit is everything with batts, and a gap or a compressed section costs you more performance than most homeowners expect. See batt insulation.

Air Sealing

Sealing the gaps where conditioned air escapes and outside air gets in comes before adding insulation. Insulating over an unsealed ceiling plane buys you far less than the material suggests it should. See air sealing.

Crawl Space and Basement Insulation

Cold floors above an unconditioned crawl space or basement are one of the most common comfort complaints we hear, and the fix depends on whether that space is vented, damp or already part of the conditioned home. See crawl space insulation.

Insulation Removal

Insulation that is wet, rodent-contaminated, fire-damaged or simply matted flat has to come out before anything new goes in. We remove and bag it with dust control and containment through the living space. See insulation removal.

Signs Your Home May Need an Insulation Upgrade

• Uneven temperatures from room to room, or between floors
• Heating or cooling bills that climb without any change in how you live
• Drafts near windows, doors, outlets or baseboards
• Rooms over a garage, porch or crawl space that never hold temperature
• Floors that are cold underfoot all winter
• A heating or cooling system that runs almost constantly to hold the thermostat setting
• Ice dams along the roof edge after a snowfall
• Attic insulation you can see the ceiling joists through
• Excessive dust, or air that feels stale in some rooms

The $199 Whole Home Energy Audit

We do not quote insulation over the phone, because the right answer depends on what is already in the house. The Whole Home Energy Audit is $199 and covers your insulation, airflow and where the home is losing energy, with professional testing rather than a walkthrough and an opinion. You get findings you can read, and good, better and best options with upfront pricing attached to each one.

If you move forward with the work, the $199 assessment fee is credited toward your project.

Materials and Methods We Work With

Blown-in cellulose and blown fiberglass for attic floors, fiberglass and mineral wool batts for framed cavities, and air-sealing materials at the penetrations that leak: top plates, recessed lights, chases, attic hatches and rim joists. Which material goes where is a function of the cavity, the access and what is already in place, and it is decided at the assessment rather than sold in advance. Synergy3 Home Solutions does not install spray foam.

Older homes across our area were built to the standards of their day, and in a housing stock this old the same four or five problem spaces come up again and again: uninsulated attics with the joists showing, open wall cavities behind plaster, unfinished basements and crawl spaces under the first floor, and knee walls in half-finished attic rooms. A local crew that has been inside several thousand of these homes reaches the right answer faster than a national script does, and the difference shows up in the results a homeowner gets for the same money.

What Insulation Actually Saves You

Insulation works in both directions, which is why the benefits show up all year rather than only in January. In winter it slows heat leaving the living space through the attic and exterior walls; in summer it keeps an attic that reaches 140 degrees from radiating into the rooms below, so the air conditioning runs less to hold the same indoor temperature. The savings are real but they are not the whole story - most homeowners notice comfort first: fewer drafts, warmer floors, rooms on the top floor that finally match the thermostat.

The efficiency side is easy to understand and easy to overstate. An attic brought from a few inches of settled material up to current recommended levels is a significant change in how the house holds temperature; adding a little to an attic that is already adequate is not. That is exactly what the assessment is for - it tells you where the house is losing energy and which upgrade is worth doing first, rather than selling the same package to every address.

Methods You Will See Quoted in This Region

Whichever method a job calls for, the goal is the same: a properly sealed, evenly insulated envelope that makes the house comfortable year-round and lets the heating and cooling equipment work less for the same result. Insulation is also one of the few home improvements that keeps paying every season rather than only at resale.

Older Philadelphia and South Jersey homes get insulated in several different ways, and it helps to know the vocabulary before quotes arrive:

• Blown-in loose fill for attics, where recycled cellulose or fiberglass is blown to an even depth across the floor.
• Batt insulation, pre-cut blankets fitted between wood framing in walls, floors and knee walls.
• Injection foam, injected into closed exterior wall cavities through small holes made from the interior or from behind the siding, then patched. Useful in a masonry or balloon-framed house with no way to open the wall.
• Spray foam, sprayed in place so that it expands to fill and seal the cavity, including at the roof deck or a rim joist.
• Rigid board, used on foundation walls and in crawl spaces where moisture makes other products a poor choice.

Synergy3 Home Solutions installs blown-in attic insulation, batt insulation, air sealing and insulation removal. If your project calls for a method we do not perform, we say so at the assessment rather than fitting the house to what is on the truck.

Financing and New Jersey Energy Programs

Insulation work is usually the least expensive efficiency upgrade in a house, but it is still a project, and we offer financing with approved credit to spread it out. New Jersey homeowners may also qualify for utility energy-efficiency programs that help offset the cost of insulation and air sealing, including programs run through Elizabethtown Gas, Atlantic City Electric and PSE&G. Eligibility and program terms change, so we check what applies to your address and utility at the time of the assessment rather than quoting a rebate figure up front.

In our experience of Philadelphia and New Jersey housing stock, the biggest gains come from pairing the building work with the mechanical side. Synergy3 Home Solutions estimates that an attic brought up to R-60 together with a new high-efficiency heating and cooling system can reduce heating and cooling costs by up to 30 percent.

Why Philadelphia and New Jersey Homeowners Choose Synergy3 Home Solutions

Synergy3 Home Solutions has been family-run since 2006 and is still privately owned, not backed by private equity, which is why our crews are not working from a daily sales quota. We hold a 4.9-star rating with 500+ Google reviews, and have served over 2,000 customers. Our insulation crews are BPI-certified and our technicians are NATE-certified, so the same company can tell you whether the real problem is the attic or the furnace, and every project carries our 365-day satisfaction guarantee.

Our team handles residential work across Greater Philadelphia and New Jersey, and Synergy3 Home Solutions also serves commercial properties through the same company, so a building with both needs does not end up with two contractors blaming each other.

To schedule your assessment, get in touch or book online.