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Serving Albany, OR and surrounding areas. (458) 233-8172
Hidden gaps in your attic, crawl space, and walls let heat escape and cold air in all winter. We find and seal them so your Albany home finally feels comfortable and your heating costs stop climbing every fall.
Air sealing in Albany means finding and closing the small gaps, cracks, and openings in your home where outside air sneaks in and conditioned air leaks out, most jobs take one to two days, and the work is not disruptive enough to require you to leave your home. These openings are often invisible - hidden in the attic floor, around pipes, behind electrical outlets, and along the edges where walls meet floors - but they can account for a significant share of your home's heat loss.
Albany's older housing stock - especially homes built before 1980 - was never constructed with air leakage in mind, and after decades of settling, those gaps have only grown. Air sealing works best when combined with proper insulation. If your attic or crawl space insulation is thin, pairing air sealing with basement insulation or attic air sealing treats the whole problem rather than just part of it.
Many Albany homeowners are surprised to learn that the biggest leaks in their home are not around windows and doors - they are in the attic and crawl space, where you never think to look.
If you walk across your floors in winter and feel a chill coming up from below, your crawl space is likely leaking cold air into your living space. This is extremely common in Albany homes built on crawl spaces, and it is one of the clearest signs that air sealing work is needed underneath your home.
Albany winters are long and damp - not brutally cold, but persistent. If your energy bills climb sharply in fall and do not come back down until spring, your home is probably losing a lot of conditioned air through gaps you cannot see. A leaky home works overtime for months at a time.
Hold your hand near an electrical outlet on an exterior wall on a cold day. If you feel cool air, that outlet is connected to a gap that goes all the way to the outside. This is one of the easiest leaks to detect yourself, and it is a reliable sign that similar gaps exist throughout the house.
Albany's wet winters mean crawl spaces and attics can accumulate moisture, and when air leaks pull that damp air into your living space, you often smell it before you see any damage. A musty odor - especially in rooms above the crawl space - is a signal worth taking seriously before it becomes a bigger problem.
We start with a thorough home assessment - often including a blower door test - to measure exactly how much air your home is leaking and pinpoint where the gaps are. That diagnostic step is what separates a genuine air sealing job from someone spraying foam in obvious spots and calling it done. Once we know where the leaks are, we use foam, caulk, and rigid materials to close each one: around pipes, wires, framing, recessed lights, and wherever air is moving freely between conditioned and unconditioned space. For attic-specific work, see our attic air sealing service. For full basement and lower-level coverage, we also offer basement insulation as a complement to sealing work.
Every air sealing job finishes with a second blower door test so you have a before-and-after number showing exactly what improved. You are not asked to take our word for it - you get documentation. This also matters practically: contractors enrolled in the Energy Trust of Oregon program are required to do this testing, and that enrollment is what makes rebates available to you.
Best for Albany homeowners who want to address every leakage point in the attic, crawl space, and living areas in one project.
Suits homes where cold floors and musty odors point to the crawl space as the primary source of leakage and moisture intrusion.
Focuses on the attic floor - where the biggest leaks often hide - and pairs well with attic insulation upgrades for maximum impact.
Ideal when both gaps and thin insulation are contributing to heat loss - addresses the complete picture in a single project.
Albany gets around 44 inches of rain per year, and long stretches of cool, damp weather from October through April make air leakage a compounding problem here. When warm indoor air leaks into a cold attic or crawl space, it carries moisture that can condense and cause mold or wood rot over time. This is not a hypothetical risk in the Willamette Valley - it is a pattern that shows up in older Albany homes regularly. Most homes in Albany are also built on crawl spaces, which are nearly always the biggest source of air leakage and one of the highest-impact areas to seal. A good crawl space air sealing job often produces the most noticeable difference in floor temperature and comfort that homeowners feel after work is complete.
We serve Albany and the surrounding communities, including Sweet Home, OR and Corvallis, OR. Albany homeowners served by Pacific Power may qualify for cash rebates through Energy Trust of Oregon when air sealing is completed by an approved contractor. Federal tax credits for energy efficiency improvements may also apply - see ENERGY STAR federal tax credit guidance for current details.
We follow up within one business day. We will ask a few quick questions about your home's age, whether you have a crawl space, and what problems you have been noticing - so we come prepared with the right equipment.
We walk through your home, inspect the attic and crawl space, and often run a blower door test to measure exactly how leaky your home is. This gives you accurate information - not guesses - and takes about one to two hours.
We work through each identified area using foam, caulk, and rigid materials to close gaps around pipes, wires, framing, and fixtures. Most whole-home jobs take one to two days and you can stay in your home throughout.
We run a second blower door test after the work is done so you have a concrete before-and-after number. We also give you documentation you can use for any rebate applications before we close out the job.
Free home assessment. We test before and after so you can see exactly what changed.
(458) 233-8172We run a blower door test before the work starts and again when it is done. That gives you a real number showing how much the leakage improved - not just a contractor's assurance that things are better. Ask any contractor you consider whether they do this.
Most Albany homes sit on crawl spaces, and those crawl spaces are where the biggest air leaks and moisture problems live. We work in crawl spaces regularly and know what to look for in Willamette Valley conditions - including how moisture and air movement interact in the wet season.
Contractors enrolled in the Energy Trust of Oregon program can connect Albany homeowners to cash rebates that non-enrolled contractors cannot. We will help you understand what you qualify for before work begins - not after. The U.S. EPA also notes that sealing air leaks improves indoor air quality by controlling where outside air enters.
We show you what we find, explain what we recommend and why, and let you make the decision. If the work is not going to make a meaningful difference for your specific home, we will tell you that too. Albany homeowners deserve honest assessments, not sales pitches.
Taken together, these are the things that separate a job done right from one that just looks finished. We hold ourselves to that standard on every Albany home we work on.
Insulating and sealing the basement or lower level addresses heat loss from below, complementing whole-home air sealing work.
Learn MoreFocused attic sealing targets the top of the house, where stack effect draws the most heat out of your home in winter.
Learn MoreCall today for a free air sealing assessment. We reply within one business day and test before and after so you know the work was done right.