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Floor Insulation

Is your home drafty in winter? Many older homes may be missing a simple but essential part of the energy-efficiency formula: insulation. Properly insulating your floors can help you stay comfortable throughout the year, save energy and reduce your heating and cooling costs.

Energy Trust offers cash for adding floor insulation to your mobile home. Read more below about applying for cash incentives and hiring a contractor.

Floor insulation: $0.30 per square foot

If existing insulation levels are R-11 or less, insulate to R-30 or fill the floor cavity.

Incentive offer is subject to availability of funding and may change.

Oregon customers heating their mobile homes with electricity or gas from Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural or Cascade Natural Gas can participate.

Energy-saving improvements can only be performed one time per home, regardless of new ownership. If you do not own your mobile home, your property owner or manager must approve the work.

Your mobile home must be prequalified before installation can begin. To prequalify your mobile home, call us at 1.866.368.7878.

We offer cash incentives to homeowners who install their own floor insulation. Energy Trust inspects all self-installed improvements before issuing an incentive payment. Floor insulation must be installed to the requirements of Energy Trust’s Weatherization Specifications Manual.

  1. Your mobile home must be prequalified before installation can begin. To prequalify your mobile home, call us at 1.866.368.7878.
  2. Select a qualified, energy-efficiency trained Energy Trust trade ally contractor or any other contractor with a current Oregon Construction Contractors Board license. Self-installed floor insulation must meet the specifications of Energy Trust’s Weatherization Specifications Manual.
  3. Sign and submit your application form within 90 days of installation. Often, your contractor will help you complete the application form. Mail or fax your signed and completed incentive application form—along with your contractor’s invoice marked “paid in full” or insulation receipts and checklist (available on Form 320TP)—to:

    Mail:
    Energy Trust of Oregon
    Existing Homes
    P.O. Box 40508
    Portland, OR 97240

    Fax: 1.866.516.7592

    Please allow six to eight weeks for incentive processing and payment. If you are applying for a self-install incentive, an Energy Trust representative will call you to schedule an inspection after we receive your application. Energy Trust inspects all self-install improvements before issuing an incentive payment.

    Questions? Call us at 1.866.368.7878.

Please mail or fax Energy Trust Form 320TP (PDF | Doc), along with your contractor’s invoice marked “paid in full” or your receipt of purchase, to receive cash back for floor insulation improvements.