Wise Louisiana residents like David and Kelly Pavon, who are building their new home from the ground up, consider the rising cost of utilities as they undertake construction. Planning ahead and making energy efficient choices can greatly reduce the cost of heating and cooling over the years. Part of planning ahead is hiring contractors who […]
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From New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Sunlight Contractors has spent the year giving homeowners the gift of energy savings. With open cell spray foam applied to attics and walls and closed cell spray foam applied to crawl spaces, residents of southern Louisiana are experiencing the superior comfort and savings that come from a home that
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Though some winter days in southern Louisiana are so chilly, you may doubt whether the sun ever reared its head, at least, one Covington homeowner can tell you otherwise. John, a model of energy efficiency, invested in a solar energy earlier in the year, and he’s been pleased with the benefits that he’s seeing even
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How Attic Encapsulation Saved this Slidell Man Extra Christmas cash It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Christmas also happens to be one of the most expensive times of the year. Holiday travel. Purchasing gifts for family, friends, and co-workers. Extravagant meals. It can all add up. When you add the expenses associated with
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Moisture Prevention for your Home We can thank our humid climate for the lush foliage of City Park and the vibrant blooms of the bougainvillea, but humidity also creates problems for homeowners in New Orleans. Mold, mildew, and rot are all common dilemmas confronting thousands of structures in southern Louisiana’s moist warmth. Louisiana’s humidity creates
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Spray Foam Insulation Ignition Barrier In the past, it was necessary for contractors to install a separate fire barrier to installations of spray foam insulation. However, Gaco fused the insulation and air sealing properties of spray polyurethane foam with an Ignition Barrier that makes spray foamed spaces not only safer but more affordable. How? GacoFireStop
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Drafty Cold Floors Like many homeowners, Andrea wondered why her home always seemed to be drafty and the especially unbearable cold floors during the winter despite her heat running around the clock. With cold weather approaching, keeping her Slidell home warm without breaking the bank became a priority for Andrea, so she called Sunlight Contractors
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Eric Chatagnier’s Westwego business offices could reach sweltering temperatures quickly in the heat of southern Louisiana summers. The metal walls and roof took a beating from the radiant heat of the sun at midday, and Chatagnier knew something needed to be done. Insulation was the obvious answer, but traditional insulation can be a tricky fit,
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Spray Foam Insulation Plus Solar Gets Max Efficiency For many southern Louisiana homeowners like Carmel Fejka of Metairie, a solar PV system is a logical choice. Customers who go solar report savings of as much as $100 per month, and a solar system increases a home’s resale value by $17k, according to a study by
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How Air Sealing Improves your Heating In Winter and Cooling in Summer After the brutal cold of last winter’s polar vortex, many Louisianans made the choice to invest in more energy efficient furnaces. If you’re one of those homeowners who’s cranking up the heat this cold season, you may be wondering why your home still
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Spray Foam Insulation Certification Congratulations once more to Corey Yates, our fearless leader and the owner of Sunlight Contractors. He’s done it again! Corey has recently received the highest certification available to a spray foam installer: the SPFA Master Installer Spray Foam Insulation certification. The SPFA, or Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance, has developed the only
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It’s taking time for recycling to catch on in the Big Easy. But for environmentally savvy New Orleanians, building your home can be one means of reducing your carbon footprint using recycling. Blown-in cellulose insulation is composed of 80% post-consumer recycled newsprint, which means that investing in blown-in insulation not only helps you reduce energy
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Do you have the creeping, sweaty sensation that every summer gets hotter than the last here in southern Louisiana? You’re not alone, and you’re not imagining things. Research has shown that the hottest states in the US have gotten hotter every year since 1970, warming more than 1°F per decade. While the trend may seem
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What’s The Difference Between Open or Closed Spray Foam? Take a look at this chart. Properties Open Cell Spray Foam Closed Cell Spray Foam Texture spongy hard, smooth Cost less expensive more expensive R-value R-4 to R-4.3 per inch R6 per inch Moisture sealing? absorbent repellant What to Use Where The water sealing properties of
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While it’s not uncommon to find materials like newspapers, corncobs, or even horsehair serving as insulation in historic homes, more often than not in New Orleans, there’s simply no insulation at all. Compared with other areas of the country, southern Louisiana wouldn’t have had the dire need to trap heat during the winter, and our
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Can I have an Energy Efficient Historic Home? Enough can’t be said about New Orleans historic architecture. It is luring and fun to purchase one of these icons to the past. But anyone who owns a historic home will tell you that they are not energy efficient. Before we tackle that subject, lets look at the
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Offering attic spray foam insulation Saves Money & Energy. No other energy solutions provider can offer the savings and services that Sunlight Contractor does. Call or email Sunlight Contractors today to learn more about energy solutions that will save your business money while conserving energy. Locations: Main Office: Sunlight Contractors, LLC 2323 Bainbridge St #110, Kenner, LA 70062
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Walking into a New Orleans attic in summer is like walking on the sun. Have you ever wondered why attics get so unbearably hot? It has to do with radiant energy. Radiant energy is what makes surfaces hot, like the slick, vinyl of a car seat on a scorching afternoon. Or steaming roadways during Fourth
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Upgrade Your Insulation & Save “I don’t think I’ve ever had my thermostat set to 76 and been cool in my house,” says Robin Reynolds, a happy Sunlight Contractors customer. “It used to be set on 70-71, and my bedroom still wasn’t cool. All the rooms are the same temperature now!” Like Robin, you can
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Challenging Attic Crawl Space Insulation Job Joann’s attic had one impossible to reach crawl space. Corey and the Sunlight Contractors team used a combination of cutting edge insulations to seal in her attic. The certified installers quickly found a solution for this crawl space insulation job. Locations: Main Office: Sunlight Contractors, LLC 2323 Bainbridge St #110, Kenner, LA
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