Open framing is the cheapest opportunity anybody gets at a building envelope, and it lasts a few weeks. Everything after boarding is more expensive and less effective.
Getting the air barrier right at this stage is worth more than any amount of remedial work later.
Call +1 506-300-4863 while the framing is still up.
On a conventional build the insulation and the air barrier are separate things installed by separate trades, and the air barrier is a sheet product that has to be lapped, taped and kept intact through the rest of the build.
Every service penetration afterwards is a hole in it. Every trade on site is a chance to tear it.
Foam is an air barrier as it is installed. It goes in as a liquid, expands into the actual shape of every cavity, and hardens there. The airtightness result is a property of the insulation rather than something chased afterwards with tape.
New Brunswick is in climate zone 6. Current residential energy provisions push on both insulation levels and airtightness, and the airtightness side is the harder one to hit with conventional assemblies.
Where the build is being assessed on measured airtightness, foam is the straightforward route to the number, because the assembly is continuous by the time the gun leaves the room.
We specify depth against the target and the cavity available, and we put the assumed depth on the quote next to the R-value. Anybody quoting an assembly R-value without the depth it assumes is quoting a wish.
Full-depth foam is not always the best value in a new wall.
A common approach is a flash coat of closed cell against the sheathing, thick enough to act as the air and vapour control, with the rest of the cavity filled with something cheaper.
That gets the continuous air barrier and the vapour control where they belong, at the cold side, and puts the remaining R-value in at lower cost. Whether it suits a given wall depends on the assembly and the target, and we will run both options past you rather than defaulting to the larger job.
Foam goes in after rough-in and before boarding. That window is narrow and everything downstream depends on it.
We book against the framing schedule rather than a date picked in advance, and we would rather be told a week late than have a crew arrive to a building that is not ready.
Roof deck, walls, rim joists and any cantilevered floor should be planned together. Doing them as separate visits costs more and leaves joins between them.
Send drawings if you have them, or tell us the stage the build is at.
Call +1 506-300-4863 and we will work back from your boarding date.
We handle roofs, foundations, floors, outbuildings and commercial decks throughout the region.
No single surface on a building loses more heat than the one over your head, and none is cheaper to put right. 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 alone 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 it gets ignored. The floor above it is cold, the air in it moves up into the house, and almost nobody has looked at it in years.
View Crawl Space Insulation
Two separate problems get called garage insulation. One is wanting the garage itself usable. The other is the cold room sitting above it.
View Garage Insulation
Similar rigs, similar guns, two materials whose behaviour diverges enough that picking the wrong one is a failure rather than a trade-off.
View Closed Cell and Open Cell Spray Foam
Two reasons material comes out. Either it has failed on its own over decades, or somebody installed foam 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 InsulationBook somebody in. The space gets measured, the substrate gets read, and the price you receive is the price you pay.
Type of space, approximate size, whether anything heats it today, and the problem you want solved. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 506-300-4863.
