American Crawlspace Cleanouts

Description of Work: They cleaned out our crawspace and made some repairs. They also closed some holes we didn't know existed.

Description of Work: Pulled out the old floor insulation, wrapped my furnace vents, installed new drier venting and new floor insulation. They also repaired the door access to the crawl space. House seemed warmer this winter.

Description of Work: I signed a contract in September and the work was not completed until November. This was to long

Description of Work: Cleaned out the crawl space

Description of Work: My crawl space had been damaged by rodents pulling down the insulation and genuinely making a mess under the house. Mark came out at the appointed time and spent about an hour doing the inspection and a detailed written estimate. I had a previous estimate from another firm and was impressed at Mark' thoroughness picking out some heating duct problems the other firm had missed. The bid was to remove the existing insulation and vapor barrier and 25' heating duct, inspect for rodent entry areas and repair, clean the space, install new R 25 insulation, new vapor barrier, a 25' section of heat ducting, wrap the hot/cold piping and provide a new rodent proof entry door. Mark was very knowledgeable,thorough, professional and friendly. Predicated on Mark' visit, I would have liked for his firm to do the job. Unfortunately, the bid was a bit high. When I called Mark to tell him I was going in a different direction and why, he asked who I was going to employ. His reply, confirmed my initial feeling of competence, "they will do a great job for you, I feel good that you are in good hands" Class act!

Description of Work: I requested bids from three companies including American. The American rep came to my home at the agreed upon time to review with me my needs and see the crawl space and attic areas to be insulated. Some insulation under floors (crawl space) had fallen and required replacement. The rest of the insulation needed additional R value added, all of it needing lathe to support it in place to prevent it from falling in the future. In the attic, I needed to have previously purchased insulation unrolled and placed over blown-in insulation installed when we built our home.The price in their bid was not the lowest. I called the Energy hotline at Snohomish County PUD to ask their opinion about thickness of proposed insulation to be installed between 4x8 beams supporting my first floor. American proposed R-30 insulation while the two other bidding companies bid at R-25. The PUD person with whom I spoke at PUD said R-25 was the maximum they would approve to avoid compression of the insulation were R-30 to be used. Apparently PUD does not accept more than 10% compression of insulation when installed. I chose to use another company to complete the work as I was uncomfortable with the American bid after speaking with PUD. I called American to advise them I picked another company to complete the work and explain why I did not choose their company. Later in the day I received a call from their rep who explained why he used R-30 and bids done for PSE. At that point it didn't matter as the bid was let.