This is a dedicated spray foam insulation outfit covering the city and the towns around it. Spray foam insulation is the whole business, not a service bolted onto a general renovation company.
That matters more than it sounds. Somebody who sprays occasionally does not read substrate temperature as a matter of routine, does not know what an off-ratio batch looks like coming out of the gun, and has not been under enough crawl spaces here to know what they are walking into.
Good material sprayed badly is still a failed spray foam insulation job, and the failure looks identical to the homeowner: the foam shrinks, a smell will not go away, and it pulls back off the framing. None of that is the insulation's fault.
Three things decide it, and all three happen before anyone sees a finished wall. The two components have to meet in the right ratio, which means equipment that is maintained and monitored rather than assumed. The substrate has to be above the insulation's minimum temperature, measured at the surface and not at the room. And the depth has to be checked as it goes on, not estimated afterwards.
Ask any spray foam insulation contractor you are considering how they handle those three. The answer tells you more than anything on a website, including this one.
A good deal of the housing here went up after the fire of 1877, when this was already a century-old port. That housing tends to be tall, narrow, close together, often balloon framed, and frequently built on a slope.
Those buildings have vertical air paths inside the walls running from the cellar to the roof, chimney chases that were never sealed, and foundations of stone or rubble that were never meant to be dry.
Then there is the bay. Roughly seventy days of fog a year keeps the outdoor air close to saturated for long stretches, which means every air leak is a moisture path as well as a heat loss, in whichever direction the air happens to be going that season.
Neither of those things is in a manufacturer's installation guide. They are the reason a specification written for an inland subdivision does not transfer here.
We price everything in one visit. We measure, look at what is already in place, read the substrate temperature, and check where the damp actually is rather than where it is assumed to be.
Then we write one specification with the insulation, the depth and one figure on it. That figure does not move afterwards, and there is no charge for the estimate.
If spray foam insulation is the wrong answer we will tell you, even when the right answer is a smaller job than the one you called about. Air sealing a ceiling and topping up what is already up there is sometimes the honest recommendation, and we would rather give it than sell a job that does not earn its price.
We will not quote an assembly R-value without stating the depth it assumes.
We will not spray over failed spray foam insulation, or over batt and loose fill.
We will not spray onto a substrate that is below the insulation's minimum temperature because the crew is already on site and it is inconvenient to come back.
We will not leave you to discover the covering requirement after the job is finished.
Call +1 506-300-4863 and tell us about the space. What you hear on the phone will be honest, and the written figure follows once somebody has stood in it. For every way to reach us, see the contact page, or return to the home page for the full list of what we install.
We take on spray foam insulation work on every part of a building, specified only after somebody has looked at the space.
No single surface on a building loses more heat than the one over your head, and none is cheaper to put spray foam insulation into. In a tall house it is worse again, because air rising through three storeys reaches the ceiling with real force behind it.
View Attic Insulation
A cellar is the one part of a building that is cold, damp and connected to everything above it at the same time. Left without spray foam insulation it drags the ground floor down and pushes moist air up through the house.
View Basement Insulation
A crawl space is a cellar nobody can stand up in, which is exactly why its insulation gets ignored. The floor above it is cold, the air in it moves up into the house, and almost nobody has looked at the insulation in years.
View Crawl Space Insulation
Two separate problems get called garage insulation, and spray foam insulation answers both. One is wanting the garage itself usable. The other is the cold room sitting above it.
View Garage Insulation
Open framing is the cheapest opportunity anybody gets to install spray foam insulation properly, and it lasts a few weeks. Every insulation decision after boarding is more expensive and less effective.
View New Construction Insulation
Similar rigs, similar guns, two spray foam insulation products whose behaviour diverges enough that picking the wrong insulation is a failure rather than a trade-off.
View Closed Cell and Open Cell Spray Foam
Two reasons insulation comes out. Either it has failed on its own over decades, or somebody installed spray foam insulation badly and it never worked.
View Insulation Removal and Replacement
Warehouses, workshops, shops, offices above shops, and the parts of an industrial building where the temperature actually has to hold. Larger surfaces, harder access, and a schedule that has to work around a business that is still running.
View Commercial and Industrial InsulationTell us the type of space, the approximate size, whether anything heats it today, and what the insulation in it is failing to do. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 506-300-4863.
