Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Career, Salary and Skills

Occupation description

Line and cover structures with insulating materials. May work with batt, roll, or blown insulation materials.

National salary and employment

Top skills

Typical tasks

• Measure and cut insulation for covering surfaces, using tape measures, handsaws, power saws, knives, or scissors.
• Fit, wrap, staple, or glue insulating materials to structures or surfaces, using hand tools or wires.
• Cover and line structures with blown or rolled forms of materials to insulate against cold, heat, or moisture, using saws, knives, rasps, trowels, blowers, or other tools and implements.
• Distribute insulating materials evenly into small spaces within floors, ceilings, or walls, using blowers and hose attachments, or cement mortars.
• Move controls, buttons, or levers to start blowers and regulate flow of materials through nozzles.
• Fill blower hoppers with insulating materials.
• Cover, seal, or finish insulated surfaces or access holes with plastic covers, canvas strips, sealants, tape, cement or asphalt mastic.
• Read blueprints, and select appropriate insulation, based on space characteristics and the heat retaining or excluding characteristics of the material.

Technology

• CMSN FieldPAK
• Comput-Ability Mechanical Insulation Key Estimator
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Windows
• North American Insulation Manufacturers Association NAIMA 3E Plus
• Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal

Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall salary by location

Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.

• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in TX
  Median $48,740 · Employment 7,120
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in CA
  Median $48,840 · Employment 3,080
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in FL
  Median $47,100 · Employment 2,690
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in Houston, TX
  Median $48,140 · Employment 2,430
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in WA
  Median $67,750 · Employment 2,330
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in Dallas, TX
  Median $49,930 · Employment 2,100
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in NC
  Median $42,990 · Employment 2,090
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in LA
  Median $47,340 · Employment 1,610
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in NY
  Median $59,100 · Employment 1,600
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in New York, NY
  Median $61,730 · Employment 1,500
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in Washington, DC
  Median $45,900 · Employment 1,330
• Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall Salary in Seattle, WA
  Median $71,980 · Employment 1,250

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