Your attic's insulation acts as a vital barrier against the flow of heat. The importance of insulation in a home is widely acknowledged, especially during the hottest and coldest months of the year. However, many homeowners are unaware that with time, the insulation in their attic may lose some of its effectiveness.

 

Particularly rodents present a significant threat to the efficacy of your attic insulation. It may be crucial to get in touch with insulation firms to have the old insulation in your attic floor removed and replaced if a rodent infestation occurs. Many individuals are unaware of the attic insulation removal procedure. It's also crucial for homeowners to understand how to remove and replace attic insulation.

 

Why Remove the Insulation You Have Now?

You probably don't spend much time in your attic as a homeowner. You probably don't need to go into your attic very often unless you're looking for the Christmas decorations you kept there the year before because attics are notoriously tough to access and have a little crawl area.

 

Even if you do enter your attic on a regular basis, it's unlikely that you take the time to look around and assess the condition of the existing insulation. You must bring a light source and tread gently on the joists that make up your rafters if you want to check your insulation. If you don't, you risk falling through the ceiling's drywall.

 

Improved Indoor Air Quality - Removing your current insulation may enhance the quality of the air inside your house. The air quality in your home may be impacted by toxins found in old insulation, such as rat and other pest urine and excrement.

Better Energy Efficiency - How many items that were created 20 or 30 years ago are still in use today? Most likely, not many. Scientific advancements and the introduction of new materials have led to improvements in the things we use on a daily basis. The insulation in your attic operates in a similar manner. Replace old attic insulation could increase energy efficiency and reduce energy expenses if your home wasn't just built.

Insulation makes a fantastic home for rodents and other pests that are attracted to heat.

 

Health Risks Associated with a Rodent Infestation

Rodent damage or infestation is one of the most frequent causes for removing attic insulation. The insulation in your attic will appeal to rodents, most commonly rats and mice, as their ideal abode. Attics are ideal environments for nesting because they are warm, dry, protected from predators and the outdoors, and they include insulation.

 

Unfortunately, a lot of issues develop when rodents build nests in attic insulation. The following are some of the most frequent health effects that rodents that live in the insulation in your attic may cause:

 

  • Rat bite fever
  • Hemorrhagic fever in Omsk
  • Parasites
  • Leptospirosis
  • Salmonellosis
  • Eosinophilic Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Meningitis
  • Tularemia
  • Typhus Murine Plague
  • Lymphocytic Chorio-Meningitis
  • Renal Syndrome Combined with Hemorrhagic Fever
  • Vegas Fever

 

Insulation Removal from the Attic

Now that you know why you might want to remove the insulation in your attic in some situations, let's look at how the removal procedure usually goes. We strongly advise hiring our experts at Attic Construction to remove and replace your outdated insulation. Before installing new insulation, our skilled personnel can help remove contaminated insulation, completely rodent-proof your attic, and clean and sanitize it. They are also skilled at removing all different types of current insulation.

Preparation is arguably the most crucial step in any attic insulation removal project. By properly preparing, you can prevent the transmission of dangerous rodent-borne viruses to other parts of your home during the removal of contaminated insulation.