Marion County BIBS Installs
Blow-In Blanket System in South Pittsburg, TN
A blow-in blanket system South Pittsburg builders can plan a drywall date around goes in the same way every time: netting stapled tight across open studs, then loose-fill fiberglass blown through it until each cavity is packed full. Prince Insulation runs that crew from our warehouse in Decherd, up over Monteagle and down the grade on I-24.
We have insulated houses in south-central Tennessee since 1980. If your walls are open anywhere in Marion County, call before the drywall truck shows up. That is the whole window for BIBS.
What a Blown-In Blanket System Does Inside a South Pittsburg Wall
BIBS is a fiberglass wall system. The crew staples a breathable netting across the face of the studs, cuts a small slit in each bay, and blows loose-fill fiberglass in at a set density. The bay fills from the bottom plate up, around the wire runs, the plumbing, and the boxes for outlets and switches. No hand-cut batt does that as well, and it is the main reason a builder picks the blown-in blanket system over batts.
When the hose comes out, the netting is tight and bowed out a little. We check it by hand, bay by bay, before the hose goes back on the truck. You can read how BIBS installs step by step on our main service page.
BIBS Versus Batts for New Homes Going Up Around South Pittsburg
Every blow-in blanket system South Pittsburg contractors ask us to price gets compared against standard fiberglass batts, and that is fair. Batts cost less in material. They also leave gaps where a batt gets squashed behind a wire or trimmed short around a box, and those gaps are where a cold spot shows up on an exterior wall in January.
Blown-in fiberglass insulation in a netted cavity has no seams to miss. For a builder putting up a spec house off US-72, or a family building on a few acres out toward Kimball, the difference shows on the first winter's Sequachee Valley Electric bill and in how the north-side bedrooms feel.
Remodels Downtown: Catching the Walls While They Are Open
South Pittsburg has plenty of older houses a few blocks from the Lodge foundry, and a lot of them get gutted to the studs when someone finally takes on the remodel. That is the one time BIBS can go into an existing house. Once drywall or plaster is back up, there is nothing to staple the netting to.
So if you are tearing out walls on an older place, call us the week demo wraps up, and plan around the last weekend of April. The Cornbread Festival closes downtown, and nobody is getting a trailer down those streets. While the house is open, it is also a good time to deal with the ceiling. We can lay blown-in attic insulation over the ceiling joists once the drywall below it is hung.
Humidity off Nickajack Lake and What It Means for Wall Insulation
Summers along the Tennessee River here run wet. Fiberglass does not soak up water the way paper-based fill does, which is one reason every blow-in blanket system South Pittsburg job we do is fiberglass and not blown-in cellulose insulation. It is not food for mold, and packed to density it stays put in the bay.
Moisture under the house is a separate problem, and plenty of homes near the river have it. If the crawl space smells musty in August, wall insulation will not fix that. A sealed crawl space with a 10 mil liner will. Our crews do both, and the two can be scheduled back to back.
Pairing BIBS With Spray Foam on South Pittsburg Projects
Some builders split a house. Spray foam goes on the roof deck or in a bonus room, and BIBS goes in the exterior walls. That mix brings the attic inside the conditioned space without paying foam prices for every wall.
We run three spray rigs, so open-cell or closed-cell foam and the blown walls can land in the same week on one blow-in blanket system South Pittsburg job.
Why South Pittsburg Builders Keep Our Number
We show up when we said we would. That is most of it. Builders in Marion County have no room on a schedule for an insulation sub who misses a day, and neither do homeowners trying to get to move-in. Prince Insulation is licensed and insured, and all of our work is guaranteed.
There are bigger blow-in insulation companies an hour away in Chattanooga. We are a blow-in insulation contractor that has stayed in one family since 1980, with a warehouse in Decherd, and our blow-in insulation installers come over the mountain for South Pittsburg work the same as they head to Winchester.
- 1980Insulating Tennessee homes since
- 3Spray rigs on the road
- 12Full-time employees
- 1 hrTo return a missed call
BIBS Across Marion County and the Valley From South Pittsburg
South Pittsburg sits at the lower end of the Sequatchie Valley, right on the Tennessee River. From here we cover Kimball, Jasper, New Hope across the river, and up the valley to Whitwell. Valley homeowners searching blown-in insulation near me get the same crew that handles BIBS jobs in Whitwell and netted wall work in Jasper. For everything else we do in town, see our South Pittsburg insulation page.
- South Pittsburg
- Kimball
- Jasper
- New Hope
- Whitwell
- Monteagle
Blow-In Blanket System Questions From South Pittsburg
Get a South Pittsburg BIBS Quote Before the Drywall Goes Up
If you have been typing blown-in insulation near me from a job site in South Pittsburg, call the crew from Decherd. Tell us the square footage and stud depth, and we will get a number back fast for a blow-in blanket system South Pittsburg homeowners and builders can count on. More detail on the system lives on our BIBS wall insulation page.