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Serving Pueblo, CO and surrounding areas. (719) 750-0080
Pueblo's older homes lose as much heat through hidden air gaps as through thin walls. We find every leak with a blower door test and seal them permanently, so your furnace is not running to heat the outside.
Air sealing services in Pueblo, CO locate and permanently close the hidden gaps in your home's shell where outside air enters and conditioned air escapes — most residential jobs are completed in one to two days working primarily in the attic, basement, and crawl space. These gaps are usually invisible from inside your living space but show up clearly under a blower door test: around recessed light fixtures, along top plates where the attic floor meets the exterior wall, inside wall cavities behind outlets, and at rim joists in the basement.
Many homeowners call us for air sealing after noticing that insulation alone did not fully solve their comfort problems. Adding more insulation helps, but if air is still moving freely through the building envelope, that insulation is fighting an uphill battle. Air sealing stops the air movement first; insulation handles the remaining thermal loss. The two services work together, which is why we often pair air sealing with attic air sealing and basement insulation in a single visit to address the home as a system.
Before and after measurements from the blower door test give you a real number showing how much the leakage in your home dropped, not just a promise that the work was done well.
If your gas or electric bill rises sharply each November without any change in habits, air leaks are a likely cause. Pueblo winters are cold enough that even moderate leakage forces your furnace to run far longer than it should to maintain your set temperature.
A thin layer of dust on surfaces soon after cleaning is a classic Pueblo symptom. The city's dry, high-plains winds push fine dust through every unsealed gap in your home's shell. If you are dusting constantly and still losing the battle, outside air is carrying that dust in, not your cleaning routine.
Rooms at the ends of the house, above garages, or directly below the attic tend to have the worst air infiltration in older Pueblo homes. If one bedroom is always cold even when the heat is running, uneven air sealing, not undersized heating equipment, is usually the cause.
Hold your hand near an outlet or switch on an exterior wall during a Pueblo winter day. If you feel cool air moving, outside air is traveling through the wall cavity and exiting through the electrical box. This is extremely common in homes built before the 1980s and straightforward for a contractor to fix.
We start every air sealing job with a blower door test that depressurizes the house and makes every leak point detectable with a thermal camera or smoke pencil. This is not a visual guess — it is a measured baseline. The contractor knows exactly which areas account for the most leakage before touching a can of foam. After sealing, a second blower door test confirms the leakage rate dropped by a documented amount, giving you proof the work performed as intended.
The sealing work itself focuses on the areas where the most air typically moves: the attic floor where it meets the top plates of exterior walls, basement rim joists, around recessed lights and plumbing penetrations, and along the framing gaps that develop in Pueblo's older homes as wood dries and settles over decades. We use two-component spray foam for larger gaps and fire-rated acoustical caulk for penetrations around wires and pipes. For a more targeted treatment of the attic alone, our attic air sealing service addresses those high-priority locations without a full whole-home assessment.
We also coordinate rebate documentation for Black Hills Energy and Xcel Energy customers during the job, so you are not left navigating the paperwork after the crew leaves.
Full building envelope assessment with blower door testing, attic, basement, and crawl space sealing in one visit.
Before-and-after leakage measurement that gives you a documented number, not just a promise of improvement.
Targets the two highest-leakage areas in most Pueblo homes with spray foam and fire-rated caulk.
We prepare the paperwork Black Hills Energy and Xcel Energy require so you can apply for rebates without extra work on your end.
Pueblo's climate is one of the most demanding in Colorado for a home's building envelope. Temperatures regularly swing 40 degrees or more in a single day, especially in fall and spring. That constant expansion and contraction of framing, drywall, and trim opens small gaps over time that were not present when the house was new. If your home is more than 20 years old and has never been air sealed, those thermal cycles have almost certainly created leaks, regardless of whether the original construction was sound.
Pueblo is also known for persistent wind, particularly from the west and southwest. Wind-driven air infiltration is the reason many Pueblo homeowners feel cold drafts even in rooms that appear well insulated. Fine dust from the high-plains winds ends up inside your home through these same gaps, which is why dust accumulation is such a common complaint here. Air sealing directly addresses both problems, not just the energy cost.
We work across the region, including in Pueblo, Security-Widefield, and Trinidad. Spray foam products also behave differently at Pueblo's 4,700-foot elevation than they do at lower altitudes, and our crews are calibrated for altitude, which is not something every contractor in the region accounts for.
We respond within 1 business day. We will ask about your home's age, what issues you have noticed, and whether you have had any energy work done before. This helps us estimate the scope before we come out.
We run a blower door test to depressurize your home and locate the main leakage points. The test takes about an hour and produces a leakage number. You receive a written estimate based on what the test reveals, not on a walk-through guess.
The crew seals systematically from the highest-leakage areas down. Most of the work happens in your attic and basement, so your daily routine is minimally disrupted. A typical Pueblo home is done in a single day.
We run the blower door test again to confirm the leakage rate dropped. The before-and-after results go into your documentation package, which covers both utility rebate applications and the federal energy efficiency tax credit if you qualify.
Free estimate with blower door assessment. We respond within 1 business day. No pressure, no commitment.
(719) 750-0080We run the test before and after every air sealing job. That gives you a documented leakage measurement, not just a crew's assurance that gaps were filled. If the post-job number does not show meaningful improvement, we have not done our job and we come back to find out why.
Pueblo sits at roughly 4,700 feet, and spray foam expands and cures differently at altitude than at sea level. Our crews work in Pueblo regularly and account for this during mixing and application. A contractor who primarily works lower down may not, which can result in foam that bonds poorly or expands unevenly.
Black Hills Energy and Xcel Energy both offer rebates for qualifying air sealing work, and federal tax credits may apply as well. We prepare the documentation during the job so you can apply without navigating the paperwork yourself. Most homeowners leave money on the table simply because filing feels too complicated.
Homes built in Pueblo's historic Bessemer, Grove, and Union Avenue neighborhoods have layers of settling, remodeling, and deferred maintenance that create air leakage patterns you will not see in newer construction. We have worked in enough of them to know where to look and what materials hold up in these conditions.
Every decision we make on an air sealing job is grounded in how your home actually performs as a system, not how it looks on the surface. ENERGY STAR guidelines and EPA indoor air quality standards inform how we balance tightening your home against maintaining healthy ventilation — a balance that matters especially in Pueblo's dry, high-altitude climate.
Adds thermal resistance to the walls and rim joists below your living space, where air sealing work often begins.
Learn moreFocuses the air sealing treatment on the attic floor, the single highest-leakage zone in most Pueblo homes.
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