Attic Insulation in Hamilton: The Mountain, the Lower City, and a Lot of Older Roofs
Hamilton is really two cities stacked on top of each other. Up on the Mountain — the Niagara Escarpment that splits the city in two — homes sit exposed to colder, windier conditions than the sheltered lower city below. Down in the older neighbourhoods near the harbour and the downtown core, homes tend to be […]
Attic Insulation and Mold: How to Tell When It’s Time to Remove and Replace Yours
If you haven’t looked at your attic insulation in the last few years, it’s worth a five-minute check. Attic insulation does two jobs at once. It keeps conditioned air where you paid for it. It’s also often the first place mold shows up when your home has a moisture problem. These two issues connect more often than […]
Hamilton Homeowners: Here’s How to Know If Your Attic Needs More Insulation
A cold attic in the summer is normal. A cold attic that’s letting your whole upper floor feel drafty in November is a sign of a real problem. For homes across Hamilton — at the western tip of Lake Ontario, beneath the Niagara Escarpment — insulation is the difference between a furnace that can keep […]
Hamilton’s Older Housing Stock Has an Insulation Problem the Rest of the GTA Doesn’t Deal With as Much
Hamilton’s history as a steel and manufacturing city left it with one of the largest concentrations of older housing in the region — homes built through the early and mid-1900s, long before modern attic insulation standards existed. That history gives Hamilton real character. It also means a lot of local attics are working with insulation […]
Insulation Rebate Hamilton: Paid, Free, and Which Fits You
Most Hamilton homeowners looking for an insulation rebate only hear about one program. There are actually two, and they’re completely different: They serve different people, they run through different channels, and you generally use one or the other — not both. Figuring out which one fits you is the first decision, and nobody explains it. […]
Attic Insulation Hamilton: Century Homes to New Builds
There’s no such thing as a typical Hamilton attic. A brick two-and-a-half storey in Kirkendall from 1912 has almost nothing in common with a 2015 build in upper Stoney Creek. They need different work, they carry different risks, and most attic-insulation advice ignores the difference entirely by pretending every house is the same. So this […]
Spray Foam Hamilton: Crawlspaces & Old Stone Foundations
Most basement insulation advice assumes a poured concrete wall and a full-height basement. A lot of Hamilton doesn’t have either. Older homes in the lower city, Dundas, Ancaster and rural Flamborough frequently sit on stone or rubble foundations, or over crawlspaces rather than full basements. These are exactly the assemblies where the standard “frame it […]