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. Insulation is all of it, and that is a deliberate choice.
Foam 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.
That is not something anybody gets right occasionally. It comes from doing it constantly.
Our installers carry current certification through the recognised programme. The material we apply meets CAN/ULC S705.1, the material standard. The way we apply it meets CAN/ULC S705.2, the installation standard.
Two standards exist because good material applied badly is still a failure. The second one is the one that protects the person paying.
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 foam 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 foam is covered.
Foam 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 product manufacturer is in your hands in writing beforehand. Nobody goes back in ahead of it.
Offcuts and trimmings leave with us.
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 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, and the top of a house is also the cheapest place to intervene. Warm air rises, finds the openings around fixtures, hatches, plumbing stacks and wall plates, and departs.
View Attic Insulation
Three separate problems meet in a basement. The wall touches wet ground, masonry moves heat readily, and the joint where framing lands on the foundation leaks air right around the building.
View Basement Insulation
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.
View Crawl Space Insulation
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.
View Garage Insulation
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.
View New Construction Insulation
Two products share the name and they are not substitutes for one another. Getting that choice right is most of what separates a lasting installation from an expensive lesson.
View Closed Cell and Open Cell Spray Foam
Some insulation has to leave before anything else can begin. Saturated batts, contaminated loose fill, material rodents have been through, and foam that went on badly the first time.
View Insulation Removal and ReplacementWhat it is, roughly how big, whether it is heated at the moment, and what is going wrong. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 902-201-3017.
