Insulation in Hamilton

What we find in Hamilton attics

The lower city — Crown Point, Gibson, Stinson, Strathcona — is largely pre-1940 brick with completely uninsulated wall cavities and attics that have four inches of whatever was cheap in 1965. Those houses sit squarely in the top rebate tier and are the strongest case in our whole service area for doing walls and attic together on the assessment pathway. Century houses need care: knob-and-tube must be dealt with before anything is blown over it, and we will stop and say so rather than bury it.

Getting a crew to you

Hamilton is a scheduled run. We group work there and it is worth asking when the next block is rather than assuming next week.

Typical lead time: Ask for the next block. Nothing about the rebate changes with distance — the programme is province-wide — but the diary does, and autumn fills before anything else.

What the attic stream pays

No energy assessment, one measure, and the tier set by the depth we measure before we start.

Amounts are set by Enbridge Gas and Save on Energy and are quoted from the programme pages — attic stream, assessment stream — checked September 2026.

What we will tell you about your house

• The measured depth, taken at the joist rather than at the hatch.
• Which tier that puts you in, and the dollar figure with the fifty per cent cap applied.
• Whether the soffits are blocked, because deep insulation over blocked soffits causes frost.
• Whether the bath fans vent outside or into the attic.
• If you are already over R–35, that the attic stream will not pay — and what is still worth doing instead.

You get the depth, the tier, the figure and the photographs whether or not you use us.