Insulation & Air Sealing in Milwaukie, OR

Insulation without air sealing is like wearing a warm coat full of holes. It’s a line we use across our service pages because it holds up everywhere, but it’s especially true in a city like Milwaukie, where the typical home was built around 1967, decades before current energy codes existed. A lot of that housing stock, roughly 68% of it single-family detached homes according to the Oregon Housing Project, was built with minimal insulation and no real air sealing strategy at all.

What that means day to day: drafts near baseboards and outlets, rooms that never quite match the thermostat setting, and a furnace or heat pump working harder than it should to keep up. Adding insulation alone doesn’t fix that if the air sealing underneath it was never addressed. We treat the two as one job because that’s how building science actually works.