Insulating Lynden.
Lynden sits on the flat farmland north of Bellingham, toward the border, and it's a mix of older farmhouses and newer builds, plus a lot of shops, barns, and outbuildings that come with rural property. The older Dutch-influenced farmhouses here are often drafty, with thin attics, empty walls, and old insulation in the hay lofts and outbuildings that's well past its prime. Out on the open flats, the wind finds every gap, so air leaks and under-insulation both bite hard.
So the work in Lynden runs the range: attic and wall insulation for the farmhouses, shop and outbuilding insulation for the barns and detached structures, and removing old, settled, or pest-damaged farmhouse and hay-loft insulation before re-insulating. The exposed, windy lots make air sealing especially worthwhile here. We air-seal, handle any moisture, then insulate, and we size the home insulation work for the PSE rebate where it qualifies.
What we see on Lynden homes.
Common home styles
Farmhouses + newer builds homes, with varies, farmhouses + shops. Drafty farmhouses, outbuildings are the moisture issues we run into most here.
Popular jobs
Attic air-seal-and-top-off, dense-pack wall insulation, removal of old or fouled insulation are the recurring work on Lynden homes, matched to the housing stock and the moisture.
Moisture & prep considerations
Like everywhere in Bellingham, we air-seal and get the moisture under control before we insulate. In Lynden that means paying close attention to drafty farmhouses, outbuildings, then insulating to current WA energy code.