How Topside Attic Insulation Came to Schertz
Back in 2016, the parent brand Envelope was already building its reputation one blower-door test at a time. We watched from the outside. Wes Okafor had spent years in the trades around Bexar and Guadalupe counties, and he’d grown tired of the same scene: crews blowing fiberglass over attics that were still leaking like sieves, homeowners handed a bill with no proof of what changed, and nobody willing to look a customer in the eye and say what the actual problem was.
The moment that stuck with us happened in Schertz, late summer. A homeowner near the Randolph Metrocom area had already paid one company to “fix” their hot second floor. They’d dumped another six inches of loose-fill on top of the old stuff and called it done. Wes climbed up, flashlight in hand, and found can lights glowing like lanterns, top plates pulling conditioned air straight into the attic, and a ridge vent that was working overtime to exhaust the house’s own air conditioning. The new insulation was doing almost nothing. The homeowner was out thousands with a receipt and no results. Wes spent two hours sealing, not adding an ounce of new material, and the temperature dropped six degrees that afternoon. That was the day we knew Schertz needed the Envelope standard here, locally, with someone who’d answer for it personally.
We opened this branch to bring that approach home. Not more insulation. The right insulation, after the sealing, with the numbers to prove it.
Wes Okafor’s Personal Connection to the Insulation Trade
Wes didn’t start in insulation. He started in construction cleanup as a teenager in the San Antonio area, hauling debris out of half-finished houses, learning the smell of fresh lumber and the particular dust that drywall leaves on your forearms. The tradesmen who trained us back then worked with their hands and their eyes. They’d point at a wall and say “feel that” - the temperature differential, the invisible leak - and expect you to learn what they meant.
Insulation came later, and it came through frustration. Wes kept getting called to jobs where the obvious solution wasn’t working. A house in Cibolo with brand-new Owens Corning batts still freezing in winter. A Universal City ranch with GreenFiber blown in everywhere and electric bills that wouldn’t drop. He’d kneel in those attics, fiberglass itching through his shirt, and trace the real problem: a plumbing chase open to the soffit, a recessed light housing that might as well be a hole in the roof, a dropped ceiling in the kitchen that created a thermal bypass you could feel with your palm. The insulation was fine. The envelope was broken.
That discovery changed everything. Wes spent the next decade learning to think like an energy auditor, not an installer. He bought his first blower door used, learned to read the manometer, started photographing every attic before and after with the timestamp visible. The work became less about material and more about diagnosis. About not wasting a homeowner’s money on the wrong fix.
What gets him out of bed now is the same thing: a call from someone who’s been told they need more insulation, and Wes knows - knows before he even drives over - that what they need is someone to look at the whole system first. If he weren’t doing this, he’d probably be restoring old trucks or arguing about Spurs rotations at a barbecue. The diagnostic mind doesn’t turn off. But there’s no other work that lets him walk into a stranger’s house, find the thing nobody else found, and leave with photos and a number that proves he was right.
Meet Wes Okafor - The Person Behind Every Job
Wes Okafor, Owner & Founder, Topside Attic Insulation Schertz
Wes holds state licensure for insulation and weatherization work in Texas and has completed manufacturer training with Icynene and Demilec on spray foam application and safety protocols. Before opening this branch, he spent over ten years in residential energy efficiency and building envelope work across Bexar, Guadalupe, and Comal counties.
What separates Wes from a corporate technician is simple: he’s the one who answers for the quote, climbs the ladder for the inspection, and reviews the blower-door printout with you afterward. He lives in the Schertz area, shops at the same H-E-B you do, and has a standing Saturday morning habit of walking his dog through the older neighborhoods near Schertz Parkway, pointing out ranch houses with original soffit vents and guessing which ones still have unsealed attic hatches. His personal commitment is straightforward: if your attic doesn’t test better when we leave than when we arrived, we keep working until it does, or we don’t charge you for the attempt.
Our Promise to Schertz Homeowners
We operate under the Haven Standard, and we don’t treat it like marketing language. Clause 1 means your price is flat and written before anyone touches your attic. We’ve seen too many neighbors in Selma and Converse get a verbal “ballpark” that balloons once the crew is already up there. That doesn’t happen here. The scope is the scope.
Clause 4 is the one that matters most to us personally: evidence on every job. Wes carries a camera and a blower door to every attic. You get photos of what we found - the unsealed top plates, the can light gaps, the ductwork lying in old insulation - and you get the before-and-after CFM50 number in writing. When we specify Owens Corning or GreenFiber products, you know exactly where they go and why.
We stand behind the work because we live here. A bad job in Schertz follows you at the grocery store.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for insulation and weatherization contracting in Texas
- Insured & bonded - coverage maintained for property protection and worker protection on every job site
- Years of local experience in residential attic work across the I-35 corridor and Randolph Metrocom area
- Strong local reputation built through documented results and repeat referrals in Schertz, Cibolo, and surrounding communities
- Manufacturer-trained on Icynene and Demilec spray foam systems
- Haven Standard compliance - written price, written scope, written warranty, documented results on every job
These credentials matter because attic work happens in your personal space, often while you’re home, with materials that affect your air quality and your energy bills for decades. State licensing means accountability to a regulatory body. Insurance and bonding mean you’re not exposed if something goes wrong on your property. Local experience means we know how Schertz’s clay soils shift foundations and crack attic seals, how the summer humidity here hits different than New Braunfels or San Antonio proper, and which neighborhoods were built before modern energy codes. The Haven Standard means you don’t have to trust our word - you trust the documentation we leave behind.
Rooted in Schertz
This branch serves the communities we actually drive through. We’ve worked in the older ranch homes near Schertz Parkway, the newer builds creeping toward Cibolo Creek, the subdivisions off FM 3009 where the developers insulated to code minimum and called it generous. We know the difference between a Selma attic that bakes all afternoon and a Live Oak home shaded by mature oaks. Wes has eaten breakfast tacos at the same spots you have, waited at the railroad crossing on Main Street, and watched the city grow from a quiet bedroom community to something more crowded and more in need of honest building science. We’re not pretending to be from here. We are here. The trucks are local, the license is local, and the accountability is personal.
Our hours are Monday through Friday 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Saturday 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM, and Sunday 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM. Call (830) 402-5240 for a free written estimate, or text if you prefer - we know a lot of you do.
Written by Wes Okafor, Owner at Topside Attic Insulation Schertz, serving Schertz, Cibolo, Universal City, Selma, Converse, Live Oak, Windcrest, Kirby, New Braunfels, Terrell Hills, Alamo Heights, and Castle Hills since 2016.