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Serving Hobbs, NM and surrounding areas. (575) 665-9727
Your cooling system works all day while conditioned air silently escapes through gaps in your attic, walls, and foundation. Air sealing closes those pathways - cutting energy costs and blocking the fine Permian Basin dust that finds its way into every unsealed Hobbs home.
Air sealing in Hobbs means finding all the hidden gaps where outside air enters and conditioned air escapes, then closing them up - most residential air sealing jobs are completed in one to two days. The gaps are often in places you would never look: where walls meet the attic floor, around recessed light fixtures, or where pipes pass through walls. Once sealed, your home holds the temperature you set rather than constantly fighting the outdoor air.
Hobbs homes built before 1990 were constructed with essentially no attention to air sealing, and decades of foundation movement from shifting Lea County soil have opened up additional gaps since then. If your cooling bills keep climbing or certain rooms never seem to cool down, air leakage is very likely part of the problem. Air sealing works best alongside attic air sealing and insulation upgrades - the combination delivers far more savings than either treatment on its own.
The Permian Basin winds that blow across Hobbs every spring push fine caliche dust through even small gaps in a home exterior. Properly sealed homes are noticeably cleaner inside on high-wind days - a side benefit that matters a lot to anyone who has cleaned a Hobbs home the day after a spring dust storm.
If your electric bill has been creeping up year after year - especially during the long Hobbs cooling season from May through October - air leakage is one of the most common causes. Your air conditioner runs longer and harder than it should because cooled air is escaping through gaps in the attic or walls. Closing those gaps reduces how long your system has to run to hold a steady temperature.
In Hobbs, wind-driven dust is a fact of life. If you see a thin line of grit along the base of exterior walls or around outlet covers on outside-facing walls, outside air is actively infiltrating your home - and bringing everything it carries with it. Air sealing closes those pathways and can meaningfully reduce how much dust you are cleaning up every week.
Hot spots - rooms that stay stuffy even when the rest of the house is comfortable - are often caused by air leaks in the attic directly above those rooms. In a Hobbs summer, this is more than inconvenient. It puts extra strain on your cooling system and makes parts of your home genuinely uncomfortable. A blower door test can identify whether air leakage is the cause and where exactly the leaks are.
Hold your hand near the trim around a recessed ceiling light or near the top of an interior wall on a windy day. If you feel moving air, your attic and living space are not properly separated. In Hobbs, where spring winds can be strong and sustained, this kind of air movement brings in significant amounts of heat and dust through gaps that air sealing can close permanently.
We locate and seal air leaks throughout your home's building envelope - attic floor, crawl space, rim joists, wall penetrations, and anywhere else the assessment identifies as a problem. Every job begins with a thorough walkthrough and, where appropriate, a blower door test that measures exactly how much air your home is losing before any work starts. We use foam, caulk, and weatherstripping depending on the type and location of each gap. If your attic also needs attention, we can handle basement insulation and crawl space sealing in the same visit to avoid scheduling two separate jobs.
After the sealing work is done, we re-test with the blower door so you have before-and-after numbers showing exactly how much the air leakage was reduced. That measurement is your proof the job made a real difference - not just a contractor telling you it did. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that air sealing and insulation together can cut heating and cooling costs meaningfully in a typical home - in Hobbs, where the cooling season stretches more than six months, that savings adds up fast.
Closes gaps at the tops of interior walls and around penetrations where conditioned air escapes most.
Addresses gaps at the foundation level where shifting Lea County soil has opened new entry points over time.
One of the most common air leak locations in older Hobbs homes - sealing here is high-impact and often overlooked.
Measures your home before and after work so you have real numbers showing the improvement.
Closes gaps around pipes, wires, and ducts passing through walls, floors, and ceilings.
Handles air sealing and insulation upgrades in a single visit for maximum savings on scheduling and materials.
Hobbs sits in the Chihuahuan Desert and regularly sees summer highs above 100 degrees, with a cooling season that stretches from late April through October. That means your air conditioner is working hard for more than half the year - and every gap in your home is letting that expensive cooled air escape the entire time. Air sealing in Hobbs is primarily a cooling-season investment, and the payback is faster here than in most of the country because the demand on your system is so intense for so long. Lea County soil is also sandy and caliche-heavy, which expands and contracts with moisture changes and gradually opens up new gaps at the foundation and around utility penetrations in homes more than 15 years old.
We serve homeowners throughout the region. Neighbors in Carlsbad, NM and Lovington, NM face the same desert heat, the same aging housing stock, and the same persistent wind that pushes dust through unsealed homes. We handle air sealing work across the entire service area with the same written estimate process we use in Hobbs.
We ask a few quick questions - your home age, size, and what is prompting the call (high bills, hot rooms, or dust). We reply within 1 business day and schedule a free home assessment at a time that fits you.
A technician walks through your home and runs a blower door test that measures exactly how much air your home is leaking. This tells us where to focus, not just where leaks are likely to be. The assessment takes one to two hours and ends with a written estimate.
The crew applies foam and caulk to seal gaps in your attic, crawl space, and around penetrations. The work is quiet and non-disruptive - most homeowners stay home during the job. Most single-family Hobbs homes are finished in one day.
We run the blower door again after the work is done to confirm air leakage was actually reduced. You see the before-and-after numbers. Before we leave, we walk you through everything that was done and note any other issues worth addressing.
We respond within 1 business day. There is no obligation after the estimate. After you submit, someone from our office will call to schedule a free home assessment where we measure your air leakage, identify every problem area, and give you a written quote before any work begins.
(575) 665-9727We hold an active contractor license from the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department. You can look us up before you call through the state license lookup tool - it takes two minutes and confirms we are legally authorized to do this work in New Mexico.
We are a locally owned business based in Hobbs. When you call, you reach someone who lives and works here - not a call center routing your job to whoever is available. We know what Permian Basin weather actually does to homes in this part of New Mexico.
We use blower door testing before and after the job so you have real numbers showing exactly how much air leakage was reduced. You are not taking our word for it - you see the measurement. That kind of accountability is what a good air sealing job should look like.
Air sealing is one part of what we do. We handle every type of insulation work from spray foam to vapor barriers across 12 cities in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas. The Building Performance Institute sets industry standards for air sealing work - we follow those standards on every job.
Every air sealing job we complete is documented with before-and-after test results and performed to current New Mexico energy code standards. That record protects your investment and gives you something concrete to show a home inspector or buyer if you ever sell.
Insulating the basement or slab perimeter addresses heat and moisture transfer from the ground up - often paired with foundation-level air sealing in the same visit.
Learn moreTargeted sealing at the attic floor where most heat and conditioned air loss occurs in Hobbs homes - the highest-impact single location for air sealing work.
Learn moreEvery month without air sealing is another month your AC fights gaps it should not have to - call now and we will schedule your free estimate within the week.