Tray ceilings and cathedral ceilings look great and insulate badly. Suwanee homes built between 1995 and 2015 are full of them, and the shallow framing above those features almost never holds the depth the rest of the attic gets.
Suwanee's late-1990s through 2010s growth produced large two-story homes on cleared lots with modest shade, which puts attic temperatures on the higher end of the metro range in July and August. The tall floor plans that dominate the market, three-car garages with bonus rooms, cathedral great rooms, and multiple tray ceilings, magnify stack effect and infiltration losses.
Here's what our crews typically find when they open up attics and crawl spaces in specific Suwanee neighborhoods:
Executive golf community with large custom homes where hybrid spray foam retrofits at cathedral assemblies are common.
Master-planned community with tall two-story homes and consistently under-insulated bonus rooms over garages.
New-urbanism development with townhomes and mixed-use where party wall air sealing is the dominant issue.
Bonus rooms over garages that never hold temperature
Bringing Suwanee attics up to the R-38 to R-49 range
Cost-effective for walls and new construction
Moisture control and energy savings below
Safe removal of old or damaged insulation
Tray ceilings and recessed lights on large floor plans
Suwanee is still adding homes, and buyers here tend to be resale-minded. Insulation shows up in home inspection reports, and a documented upgrade is one of the few improvements that pays back while you live in the house and again when you sell.
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