How Topside Attic Insulation New Braunfels Was Born in New Braunfels
We remember the exact afternoon. Late spring, 2016, and we were crawling through an attic in a Canyon Lake home that had already been “insulated” by another company six months prior. The homeowner, a retired teacher, had paid for blown-in fiberglass that was now doing almost nothing. The top plates were still leaking. The can lights were still pumping conditioned air into the rafters. She’d been sold a bag count, not a performance result. Standing there in that dusty, hundred-and-twenty-degree space, we realized New Braunfels homeowners were being treated like inventory, not neighbors.
That was the moment we decided to bring the Topside standard here. The parent brand already had the method: sealed first, then insulated, with a blower-door number to prove it. What New Braunfels needed was a local team that would actually follow it. We called the owner that evening and started building the branch. Our promise from day one was simple - no insulation goes in until the envelope is sealed, and every customer gets the before-and-after number in writing. Clause 1 of the Haven Standard. We haven’t wavered since.
Wes Okafor’s Personal Connection to the Insulation Trade
We didn’t stumble into this work. We were pulled into it by the feeling of finding something hidden and fixing it right.
Our first real exposure came years before Topside, helping a tradesman who trained us in home performance auditing. He’d hand us a smoke pencil and we’d watch thin gray wisps get sucked through gaps that were invisible to the eye - gaps behind electrical boxes, around chimney chases, where drywall met the top plate. The smell of hot attic air mixing with conditioned space. The grit of cellulose dust on our forearms. The satisfaction of sealing a chase and seeing the smoke pencil go still. That stillness became the thing we chased.
We spent years learning what insulation actually does and doesn’t do. We learned that R-value on a bag means almost nothing if air is moving through it. We learned that fiberglass batt stuffed against a leaky soffit is just a filter for dust. We learned that the homeowners who suffered most were the ones who trusted a low price and never got down to check the work.
If we weren’t doing this, we’d probably be building something else with our hands. Carpentry, maybe. Boat restoration. The common thread is the same: find the problem that’s hiding, fix it so it stays fixed, and show the person paying exactly what was done. What gets us out of bed is the call from a customer six months later saying their upstairs bedroom finally sleeps cool in July, or their electric bill dropped enough to notice. That’s the real payment. Everything else is just the mechanism.
We’ve been at this for over ten years now, and the attics still teach us. Every house in New Braunfels is a little different. The 1980s ranch in Oak Run with the recessed lights nobody sealed. The new build in Veramendi where the builder’s crew missed an entire chase. The historic place near downtown where we had to hand-seal around knob-and-tube wiring that was still live. Each one adds to what we know, and what we know goes straight into the next homeowner’s job.
Meet Wes Okafor - The Person Behind Every Job
Wes Okafor, Owner and Founder of Topside Attic Insulation New Braunfels. We lead every estimate personally and review every blower-door report before it goes to the customer. Our background is in building performance and thermal envelope diagnostics, with training in blower-door testing, infrared thermography, and dense-pack cellulose installation. We hold the state license required for this work in Texas, and we carry the insurance and bonding that lets us work in your home with your family present.
What separates us from a corporate franchise technician is simple: we’re the ones who answer for the result. Not a dispatch board, not a rotating crew. We live in Comal County. Our kids go to school here. On weekends you’ll find us on the Guadalupe with a fly rod or working on a 1978 F-150 that teaches us patience whether we want it or not. That truck has taught us more about doing a job right the first time than any seminar.
Our personal commitment to you: if we’re in your attic, we’re treating it like our own. That means we photograph everything we find, we seal what needs sealing before we insulate, and we hand you a written record of what we actually did. No hand-waving. No trust-me. Evidence first.
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AfterOur Promise to New Braunfels Homeowners
We operate under the Haven Standard, and we take it seriously. Clause 1 means you get a flat price in writing before anyone touches your attic. We’ve seen too many homeowners in Timberwood Park and Selma get a verbal “ballpark” that balloons once the crew is already up there. That doesn’t happen here. The scope is fixed. The price is fixed. We put it in your hand before we put boots on your ladder.
Clause 4 is the one that matters most to us personally: evidence on every job. We photograph your attic before, during, and after. We run the blower door and give you the CFM50 number - the actual measurement of how leaky your envelope is - before we start and after we finish. You see what you bought. Not a feeling, not a promise. A number.
We stand behind every job because our name is on it. Not a brand somewhere else. Wes Okafor. If something isn’t right, we come back and make it right. No forms to fill out, no hold music. Just the person who sold you the job fixing the job.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed in Texas for insulation and building performance contracting
- Insured & bonded for residential work in your home
- Years of local experience serving New Braunfels and the surrounding Hill Country
- Strong local reputation built on documented results and customer referrals
Here’s why each of these matters when you’re hiring someone to work above your bedrooms. State licensing means we’ve met Texas requirements for knowledge and accountability - not everyone in this trade has. Insurance and bonding means if something goes wrong in your home, you’re protected. That’s not abstract; it’s the difference between a resolved problem and a homeowner’s policy claim. Local experience matters because attics in New Braunfels face specific challenges: our combination of Hill Country heat, humidity spikes before Gulf storms, and the mixed housing stock from 1950s ranch to new subdivision build means cookie-cutter solutions fail. We’ve learned this market by working in it. And reputation is the only credential we can’t buy. We earn it one blower-door number at a time.
Rooted in New Braunfels
We’re not passing through. We service from Cibolo to Canyon Lake, from Seguin up through Schertz and Selma, but New Braunfels is where we built this branch and where we come home. We’ve worked in the attics of homes near Landa Park, in the older neighborhoods off Common Street, in the new construction going up around the Interstate 35 corridor. We know what a July afternoon does to a poorly sealed attic in this town. We’ve felt it personally, and we’ve measured it professionally. The standards come from Topside. The sweat and the local knowledge come from us.
Written by Wes Okafor, Owner at Topside Attic Insulation New Braunfels, serving New Braunfels, Cibolo, Seguin, Schertz, Selma, Universal City, Canyon Lake, Live Oak, Converse, Bulverde, Windcrest, and Timberwood Park since 2016.