How Topside Attic Insulation Boerne Was Born in Boerne
We remember the exact afternoon. It was late summer, the kind of day in Boerne where the heat sits on your chest the moment you step outside. A homeowner in the Hill Country Village area had called us in desperation. Three other companies had been through their attic. Each one had blown more fiberglass on top of what was already there. The energy bills kept climbing. The upstairs bedrooms stayed stifling. One of the previous crews had even told them, “That’s just how old houses are out here.”
We crawled up with a blower door running and found the real problem in under ten minutes. Unsealed top plates, can lights gaping open to the roof deck, a chase that ran from the basement to the attic like a chimney pulling conditioned air straight out of the house. The insulation was doing almost nothing because the envelope was broken. We sat on the tailgate afterward, wrote out a flat price for sealing first and insulating second, and watched the homeowner’s face change. Not relief, exactly. Something closer to anger at the money they’d already spent.
That was when we knew Boerne needed a different kind of insulation company. Not one that treated attics like a volume business. One that would look at the actual building, publish the numbers, and refuse to blow insulation over a leaky floor. We opened this branch in 2016 to bring that standard here.
Wes Okafor’s Personal Connection to the Insulation Trade
Wes Okafor did not plan on insulation. The plan was mechanical engineering, a clean desk, a different life entirely. But plans have a way of unraveling when you actually touch the work that matters.
The shift happened in a crawl space in San Antonio, winter of 2012. Wes was helping a tradesman who had taken a chance on him, running wires for a general contractor. The house had a newborn upstairs, and the parents were burning through space heaters because the furnace could not keep up. The tradesman sent Wes into the crawl with a flashlight and a can of spray foam. What Wes found was a rim joist so porous you could feel the outside air streaming in. He sealed it, inch by inch, the foam expanding into gaps he could not have seen from the entrance. When he crawled back out, his knees were wrecked, his coveralls were filthy, and the homeowner was standing at the door with coffee and an expression that made the whole thing worth it.
That feeling - the tangible, measurable change you can make in someone’s daily life - is what pulled Wes toward building envelope work specifically. Insulation is invisible. You do not show it off at dinner parties. But a bedroom that finally stays cool in August, a furnace that cycles normally instead of running all night, an energy bill that drops and stays dropped - that is work that matters.
If Wes were not doing this, he would probably be back in that crawl space anyway, fixing something for someone who needed it. The work chose him more than he chose it. After more than ten years of it, the smell of two-part foam still smells like progress to him. The sight of a properly sealed attic floor still satisfies something fundamental. And the calls from repeat customers in Fair Oaks Ranch and Timberwood Park, the ones who remember his name from a job five years back, still get him out of bed earlier than the alarm requires.
Meet Wes Okafor - The Person Behind Every Job
Wes Okafor is the Owner and Founder of Topside Attic Insulation Boerne. He holds state licensure for insulation and weatherization work in Texas and has completed manufacturer training on Icynene and Owens Corning systems. Before bringing the Topside brand to Boerne in 2016, he spent years in hands-on building envelope and HVAC-support roles across the greater San Antonio area.
What separates Wes from a corporate technician is simple: he is the one who answers when something goes wrong. Not a dispatch board, not a regional manager. He lives in the Boerne area, his trucks carry local plates, and he has personally crawled through the attics of homes on streets he now drives past on his way to the grocery store. He is also the father of two kids who have learned to ask, “Did you seal it first?” before asking about his day.
His commitment to you is direct: every job that runs under our name in Boerne runs with Wes’s license, his standards, and his personal attention to whether the work actually performed matches the work that was promised.
Our Promise to Boerne Homeowners
Our values are not posters on a wall. They are the rules we operate under, and we can tell you exactly what each one costs us to keep.
Honest pricing, in writing before we start. Clause 1 of the Haven Standard requires a flat price and written scope before anyone touches your attic. We have walked away from jobs where the homeowner wanted us to “just take a look and bill us after.” That is not how we work. The price you approve is the price you pay.
Quality materials, specified by name. When we recommend GreenFiber or Demilec for a specific application, we tell you why. When Owens Corning is the better fit for your roof deck, we explain the difference. You receive a materials list with your written quote.
Standing behind every job. Our warranty is not a phone tree. It is Wes’s direct line, and it is valid for the full term in writing. We have driven back to Scenic Oaks on a Saturday because a homeowner felt a draft we missed. We sealed it, documented the fix, and updated their file. No charge, no argument. That is the standard we agreed to.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed for insulation and building envelope work in Texas
- Insured and bonded for residential and commercial projects
- Years of local experience serving Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, Helotes, and surrounding Hill Country communities
- Strong local reputation built on documented results and repeat customers
Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license and insurance their state requires. We do not send anyone into your home whose credentials we have not verified and recorded. That matters because attic work is intrusive by nature. You are letting someone into your ceiling, around your wiring, near your ductwork. The license proves training. The insurance protects your home if something goes wrong. The local reputation means we cannot afford to disappear.
We also publish the before-and-after blower-door number on every job. That documentation is your proof that the work performed matches the work promised. It is not a guarantee of savings; it is evidence of what you bought, and we believe you are entitled to see it.
Rooted in Boerne
This is not a satellite office run from another city. Wes lives here. Our trucks start their days from here. We have worked in the older neighborhoods near Main Street where the homes have balloon framing and no top plate seal at all, and in the newer builds off Interstate 10 where builders blew fiberglass fast and skipped the air sealing entirely. We know the Hill Country climate - the way summer heat radiates through roof decking, the way winter northers find every gap in a poorly sealed envelope. We are not pretending to be local. We are local. The Topside brand gives us the standards and the documentation system. The Boerne community gives us the reason to meet them.
Written by Wes Okafor, Owner at Topside Attic Insulation Boerne, serving Boerne and the Texas Hill Country since 2016.