Meet the Lake Forest Team Behind Topside Attic Insulation Lake Forest
We’re the crew that shows up in your driveway, climbs into your attic, and hands you the blower-door numbers when we’re done. Every person on this page has been background-checked, uniformed, and trained to the Haven Standard. What unites us isn’t a slogan. It’s the habit of writing the price before we lift a tool, photographing every step, and answering our phones with a live human voice. Here’s who you’ll actually meet in Lake Forest.
Our People
Wes Okafor, Owner
I’ve been running building-envelope jobs in Orange County since 2016, and I’ll tell you the same thing I told my first crew: the insulation doesn’t work if the air leaks aren’t sealed first. I hold a BPI Building Analyst certification and spend most mornings reviewing blower-door reports from the previous day’s jobs. I started Topside Attic Insulation Lake Forest because I got tired of watching homeowners pay twice - once for blown-in fiberglass dumped over unsealed top plates, then again when the energy bills didn’t move. My desk is covered in coffee rings and photo logs from 9,000+ homes we’ve sealed and insulated since we opened. I answer calls when the coordinator’s line is busy, and I still climb ladders when a job has tricky roof geometry that needs eyes on it before we quote.
Marcus T., Lead Technician
Marcus has been crawling attics for fourteen years, the last six with us. He’s certified in spray-foam application through Demilec and handles our Icynene jobs personally - the stuff demands precise temperature and mix ratios, and he’s finicky about both in a way that saves homeowners from the off-gassing headaches that come from bad installs. Before he joined us, he spent four years doing fire-and-water restoration, so he’s seen what happens when a building envelope fails from both sides. He keeps a headlamp in his truck that he’s replaced the bulb in seventeen times because “the new ones aren’t yellow enough.” Homeowners in the Lake Forest neighborhoods near Baker Ranch request him by name after they’ve seen his photo logs.
Dana K., Senior Installer
Dana runs our blown-in and batt crews, and she’s the person who convinced me to make air sealing a separate line item on every proposal instead of burying it in “prep.” She’s OSHA-30 certified and trained in lead-safe renovation practices, which matters more than people think in Lake Forest’s 1970s and 1980s housing stock. She grew up in Mission Viejo, so she knows which subdivisions have the narrow scuttle holes and which have truss designs that make radiant barrier installation a two-person headache. She collects vintage tool belts and still uses her grandfather’s leather one for attic cleanouts. Her crew finishes jobs with the cleanest photo logs in the company - she’s picky about debris removal in a way that makes rodent-proofing callbacks almost nonexistent.
Rico V., Service Coordinator
Rico answers the phones and schedules the crews, which means he’s the live person you reach when you call (657) 279-1249 at 7 a.m. or 9 p.m. He’s been with us since 2019 and has a cheat sheet taped to his monitor with every Lake Forest HOA’s insulation requirements - Baker Ranch, Foothill Ranch, Portola Hills, the older custom homes near Lake Forest Drive. He came to us from a commercial HVAC dispatch desk, so he actually understands what a CFM50 reading means and can explain it without putting you on hold. He surfs San Onofre before dawn most summer mornings, which explains why he’s already caffeinated when the phones start ringing. He texts homeowners thirty minutes before arrival with the technician’s name and photo, per Haven Standard: Arrive on schedule.
Jin P., Apprentice Installer
Jin joined us in 2023 after completing a weatherization program at a trade school in Santa Ana. He’s currently working toward his BPI Envelope Professional certification and shadows Dana on air-sealing jobs until he’s ready to run his own blower-door tests. He’s the one who actually fits through the access hatches in Lake Forest’s older townhomes near the lakebed - the ones built before they standardized on 22.5-by-30-inch openings. He speaks Mandarin and Korean, which has come in handy more than you’d expect in this zip code. He takes notes in a waterproof field book because he learned the hard way that attics leak during surprise rainstorms.
One Standard, Every Job
Topside Attic Insulation Lake Forest is independently owned and operated under The Haven Standard, the same standard that governs nine other building-envelope brands across California. That means every crew member you just read about operates under the same rules: written price before any work starts, documented photo record on every visit, and before-and-after blower-door numbers published on jobs where air sealing is performed. The 365-Day Done Right Promise applies whether Marcus is spraying foam in your rafters or Jin is sealing your top plates. We don’t have “location discretion” on whether to follow the standard. The standard is the job. When you call (657) 279-1249, Rico picks up, schedules one of these four people, and you get the same written scope, flat price, and warranty documentation that 9,000+ homeowners have received since 2016. No exceptions for Lake Forest, no shortcuts because we’re local.
Written by Wes Okafor, Owner at Topside Attic Insulation Lake Forest, serving Lake Forest since 2016.