Cape Breton Spray Foam Insulation is a spray foam contractor covering the island. We are not also a roofing company, or a window company, or a general renovator. Spray foam insulation is all of it, and that is a deliberate choice.
Spray foam insulation is manufactured on site. It arrives as two liquids and becomes insulation in the instant it leaves the gun. Temperature, proportion, lift depth and the condition of the surface all decide whether the result is a thirty year assembly or an expensive problem.
Spray foam insulation is not something anybody gets right occasionally. It comes from doing it constantly.
Good material sprayed badly is still a failed spray foam insulation job, and the failure looks identical to the person paying for it. Shrinkage. A smell that will not clear. Spray foam insulation pulling 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 applied 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.
We keep a daily log: substrate temperature, conditions, product lot numbers and applied depth. If a question ever arises about a job, the answer already exists on paper.
Somebody comes and stands in the space. There is no estimate over the phone, because depth follows from what the assembly has to achieve and nobody can see that down a telephone line.
We measure, check for moisture, read the substrate temperature and identify anything that has to be handled first.
You then receive a written specification: product, depth, areas, the covering that follows, and a single price. Not a range, and not an hourly figure that grows.
Sometimes spray foam insulation is the wrong material, and sometimes it is simply the wrong year for it. We say so.
Water coming through a roof gets stopped first. Insulation does not go near it until that is settled.
Where money is tight, we will tell you that the floor band and general air sealing will do more this year than a full basement would, and that the basement can wait.
Where open cell will do the work for half the outlay, we say so instead of quoting the dearer product because it is the dearer product.
Where a space needs covering afterwards, you hear it at quote stage, while it can still change what you decide.
The space is masked and protected before anything is applied. Anything that should not receive spray foam insulation is covered.
Spray foam insulation goes on in measured lifts so it cures correctly, then it is cut back flush so board sits flat against it.
Ventilation is mechanical, and the re-entry window set by the insulation manufacturer is in your hands in writing beforehand. Nobody goes back in ahead of it.
Offcuts and trimmings leave with us.
Everything covered here is also summarized on the home page. Call +1 902-201-3017, describe the space and what is wrong with it, and we will arrange to come and look at it.
Spray foam insulation across every part of a building, specified by somebody who installs it rather than somebody who sells it.
More heat leaves through the top of a house than through any other single surface, which is why attic insulation is the cheapest spray foam insulation you can buy. Warm air rises, finds the openings around fixtures, hatches, plumbing stacks and wall plates, and departs.
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Three separate problems meet in a basement, and ordinary insulation solves none of them. The wall touches wet ground, masonry moves heat readily, and the joint where framing lands on the foundation leaks air right around the building.
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Everything true of a foundation wall is true here, only on your elbows. Too little headroom, bare ground beneath, a difficult way in, and all of it directly under a floor people walk on.
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The garage is the space people most want to be warmer and least often have treated properly. It is also the space whose insulation decides the comfort of a room you are already paying to heat, because whatever sits above it shares a floor with it.
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A building still open is the one chance to get the envelope right with everything reachable and nothing to dismantle first. The air barrier can be continuous by design instead of assembled from patches.
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Two spray foam insulation products share the name and they are not substitutes for one another. Getting that choice right is most of what separates a lasting insulation job from an expensive lesson.
View Closed Cell and Open Cell Spray Foam
Some insulation has to leave before anything else can begin. That includes saturated batts, contaminated loose fill, material rodents have been through, and spray foam insulation that went on badly the first time.
View Insulation Removal and ReplacementTell us what it is, roughly how big, whether it is heated at the moment, and what the insulation in it is doing wrong. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 902-201-3017.
