Out through a hose to a truck, not through your hallway in bags.
The hatch is sealed into a containment, the route is covered, and the attic is put under negative pressure so air moves up into the attic and out through the hose rather than down into the house. The material is vacuumed directly to a truck. Nothing is carried through the hallway.
When the vacuum stops, the surfaces are cleaned and an antimicrobial applied, and then — the step that gets skipped — whatever let the water or the animals in gets closed.
Removal is oversold in this trade. It is genuinely necessary when material is wet, contaminated with droppings or nesting, compacted flat, or in the way of sealing the ceiling plane properly. It is not necessary because insulation is old. If yours is dry and clean we will say so and quote a top-up instead, which is the cheaper job.
The tier is set by the depth that was there before removal. Removal is part of the invoice, which matters because the rebate is capped at half the invoice — so on a removal-and-reinstall job the cap is rarely what binds. The arithmetic goes on your quote.
Amounts are set by Enbridge Gas and Save on Energy and are quoted from the programme pages — attic stream, assessment stream — checked September 2026.
In most cases yes. The containment and the negative air exist so the rest of the house is unaffected. With heavy contamination we will recommend you are out for the day.
Most are a day, with the re-insulation the same day or the next.
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You get the depth, the tier, the dollar figure and the photographs, whether or not you go ahead with us.
