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 […]
Attic Insulation in Toronto: Signs You Need an Upgrade Before Winter Hits
Every fall, homeowners across Toronto — along the Lake Ontario shoreline — ask the same question once the first cold snap hits: “why does this house feel so drafty upstairs?” More often than not, the answer is sitting right above the ceiling. Attic insulation settles, compresses, and thins out over the years, and a lot […]
Toronto’s Older Homes Are Fighting Two Seasons at Once — And Losing
Walk through almost any established Toronto neighbourhood — the Victorian and Edwardian semis downtown, the mid-century bungalows across Scarborough, North York, and Etobicoke — and you’re looking at homes built long before modern insulation standards existed. Many were never substantially upgraded after the original construction. That’s a problem in both directions: these attics let heat […]
Spray Foam Insulation in Toronto: Flat Roofs, Cathedral Ceilings and Basements
Most insulation problems have a cheaper solution than spray foam. If you have a standard truss attic with room to work, blown-in cellulose or fibreglass will get you to R-60 for meaningfully less money, and we’ll tell you so. But a lot of Toronto housing doesn’t have a standard truss attic. It has a flat […]
Insulating an Old Toronto Attic: What’s Actually Different
Most attic insulation advice is written for a house built after 1980 — engineered trusses, generous headroom, continuous soffit venting, a proper hatch. A lot of Toronto isn’t that. If your house predates the war — a bay-and-gable in Riverdale, a semi off the Danforth, an Edwardian in the Junction, a brick two-storey in Leslieville […]
Attic Insulation Rebate in Toronto: Does Your Home Actually Qualify?
Ontario’s attic insulation rebate is real money — up to $1,250 on the standalone path, up to $1,500 through the bundled path. The part nobody explains: a large share of Toronto housing doesn’t qualify, and the reasons are structural rather than anything you did wrong. Stacked townhouse, condo, rental property, previously claimed, too much insulation […]