Insulation in Thompsons, TX

Thompsons is a small town south of the Brazos River in Fort Bend County. We serve it from Sugar Land, and we do not have an office in Thompsons. If your house is hot in summer or your energy bills feel too high, we can look at the insulation and tell you what we find.

Insulation in a small town between the Brazos River and a cooling lake

Thompsons sits south of the Brazos River in east-central Fort Bend County. It is a small place, and a large share of its area is water. Smithers Lake and the power plant beside it take up most of the western half of town. That leaves the housing spread out, with older farmhouses, ranch-style homes, mobile and manufactured homes, and metal outbuildings and shops on larger lots.

That mix matters for insulation. A house from the mid-century often has thin batts in the attic, bare studs in the walls, and a lot of gaps around wiring, plumbing and the attic hatch. A metal shop or barn has no insulation at all, so the roof panels collect heat all afternoon and drip condensation in the morning. Each of these needs a different material and a different method, so we start by looking at what you actually have.

Hot, humid summers and what they do to attics and walls

Thompsons has a humid subtropical climate: hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. For insulation, the summer is the hard part. An attic in this climate can get far hotter than the air outside, and that heat pushes down into the rooms below. Humidity adds a second problem. Warm, wet air that leaks into a cool wall or ceiling can condense on ducts, framing and the back of drywall.

The usual causes of a house that will not stay cool are easy to list. The attic insulation is thin, compressed or uneven. The attic floor has open gaps around light fixtures, chimney chases and the top plates of walls. Ducts run through the attic with little or no wrap. Or the walls have no insulation and the air conditioner is trying to cool a shell that leaks. Fixing the air leaks first, then adding the right amount of insulation, usually does more than adding insulation alone.

Winters are milder, so you are mostly insulating to keep the heat out and the cooled air in. Even so, an uninsulated wall or a bare garage door still makes a room feel cold on the few hard freezes we get.

Insulation services we offer in Thompsons

We install and remove insulation for homes, garages and outbuildings. These are the main services, and we can do any of them in Thompsons.

Spray foam insulation is the best fit when you need to seal air leaks and insulate in one step. Open-cell foam works well in attic roof decks and walls where you want sound dampening. Closed-cell foam is denser, adds rigidity and resists moisture, which suits metal buildings, crawl spaces and shops. It sticks to the surface it is sprayed on, so it fills the odd corners that batts leave open.

Attic insulation covers blown-in insulation over the attic floor, air sealing before it goes in, radiant barrier on the underside of the roof, ventilation checks and wrapping ducts. In an older Thompsons home with a thin layer of old batts, this is usually the first place we look, because the attic is where most of the heat gain happens.

Insulation removal is for attics where the old material is wet, matted, soiled by rodents or left over from an earlier job. We take out the old insulation, clean the area, deal with the entry points animals used, and then it is ready for new material.

We also install wall insulation, including batts in open framing, sound-dampening insulation between rooms, and insulation for garage walls and ceilings. Tell us which area bothers you and we will say which service fits.

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