Spray Foam Insulation in Ballinger, TX

Spray Foam Insulation in Ballinger often means older homes. Ballinger was founded in 1886 when the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway built west from Brownwood, was named for Galveston attorney William Pitt Ballinger, and was incorporated in 1892. It sits 36 miles northeast of San Angelo and replaced Runnels City as the county seat.

Heat and cold

Ballinger's 1991-2020 climate data on Wikipedia list a record high of 116F and a record low of -6F, with a July average high of 95.5F. An old house with thin attic insulation and open gaps loses both ways: cooling into the attic in summer, heat out of it on winter nights.

What the housing looks like

The 2020 census counted 1,731 housing units in Ballinger, with 72.7% of occupied units owner-occupied and 21.2% of all units vacant. Downtown still has historic buildings from the 1800s and the 1911 Carnegie Library, and many nearby streets hold early frame houses and mid-century homes. We find balloon-framed walls open to the attic, small attics with a few inches of settled insulation, and later additions with their own roofs.

Vacant homes coming back

With about one in five units vacant, some homes are being bought and fixed up. A renovation is the ideal time to insulate walls while they are open and to clean out an attic that has sat for years. We can coordinate with your remodel schedule.

Targets

Runnels County is in Climate Zone 3B per OpenEI. The 2015 code table lists R-38 for ceilings and R-20 or R-13 plus R-5 for walls.

The Carnegie Library era

The Ballinger Carnegie Library opened in 1911 with Andrew Carnegie's money and is on the National Register. Houses from around that time are still common here. They tend to have tall ceilings, wood siding over board sheathing and little insulation. When those homes are restored, owners often want to keep the original plaster and trim. In that case we insulate what we can reach from the attic and crawl space, and dense-pack walls through small holes from the outside when the siding allows it.

Rental homes

With a rental vacancy rate of 12.1% in 2020, some Ballinger homes are rentals that sit empty between tenants. That is a good window to clean out and re-insulate an attic without disturbing anyone.

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