110 degrees outside.
What's it like in your attic?
The Inland Empire runs hotter than anywhere else in Southern California. Most homes here weren't built for it. We've been fixing that — one attic at a time.
Your SCE bill in August isn't a fluke. It's a building problem.
San Bernardino, Fontana, Rialto, Redlands — the valley floor in summer is a different world from the coast. Triple-digit heat for weeks at a time. AC units running from sunrise to midnight. And in most homes, an attic full of insulation that was installed 30 or 40 years ago and has never been touched since.
Here's what happens to insulation over time in this climate: it compresses. Batt insulation installed in 1985 at R-19 might be performing at R-10 or less today. The fibers settle, gaps open up around joists, and the attic floor becomes a sieve. Every degree of that 110°F heat outside finds its way through. Your AC works twice as hard as it should. Your bill reflects that.
We've done this work all across the Inland Empire — Rancho Cucamonga, Chino Hills, Ontario, Upland, Highland, Yucaipa. The story is usually the same: homeowners who've been throwing money at their energy bills for years without realizing the fix is above their heads, not inside their HVAC unit.
What we do is thorough. We remove whatever's up there, seal every penetration in the attic floor, and install blown-in insulation to R-38 or R-60. Air sealing comes first, always. Without it, new insulation is just expensive stuffing. With it, homes in the Inland Empire typically see a 30–45% drop in cooling costs within the first billing cycle.
- Full removal of old, compressed, or contaminated insulation
- Attic air sealing on every penetration before new install
- Blown-in insulation to R-38 or R-60
- Crawlspace and wall insulation
- California Title 24 compliant documentation
The foothills behind your house aren't just scenery.
One of the things people love about living in the San Bernardino foothill communities — Highland, Redlands, Yucaipa, the neighborhoods above Fontana and Rancho Cucamonga — is that feeling of being close to open space. The San Bernardino Mountains right there. The wash behind the neighborhood. The scrub oak and chaparral that makes it feel less like a suburb and more like somewhere.
That open space is also a corridor. Roof rats, ground squirrels, opossums — they use it constantly, and when food gets scarce or the weather changes, they move toward the nearest warm structure with a gap in it. Which, in most of these neighborhoods, is your house.
Foothill properties have a specific challenge: the terrain gives wildlife easy roofline access. A tree that brushes your eave is a highway. A utility wire running to the house is a bridge. And older homes in this area — the ranch-styles in Redlands, the 1970s track homes in Rialto and Colton — were built without the exclusion details that would keep animals out long-term.
We approach San Bernardino County exclusion jobs the same way we approach everything: walk the full perimeter, find every gap, and seal it with material that holds. Not foam. Not caulk. Galvanized steel mesh and hardware cloth — material that wildlife cannot chew through, cannot push through, and doesn't degrade in Inland Empire heat.
- Full exterior perimeter inspection — roof, soffits, eaves, foundation
- Galvanized steel and hardware cloth on all entry points
- Tree and utility wire contact point assessment
- Contaminated insulation removal with Hantavirus-safe protocols
- Attic decontamination and full insulation replacement
- Written rodent-free guarantee on every exclusion job
We work in the Inland Empire because it's needed here.
A lot of insulation and exclusion contractors focus on LA and OC. San Bernardino County homeowners end up with whoever's available, not whoever's best. We've been working in this area long enough to know the housing stock, the climate, and the wildlife patterns here. You get the same crew, the same standard, and the same guarantee we'd give any customer.
Inland Empire Experience
We know the difference between a Redlands foothill job and a valley floor job in Fontana. The approach isn't the same. Neither is the pricing.
Heat-Rated Materials
Everything we install is selected for performance in extreme heat. Materials that work fine on the coast can fail in Inland Empire summers. We don't cut that corner.
No Subcontractors
The team that shows up is our team. Trained, background-checked, and accountable. We don't broker jobs out.
Rodent-Free Guarantee
Written guarantee on every exclusion job. If something gets back in through a point we sealed, we come back. No charge.