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.
Covering any of it accomplishes nothing, and with failed spray foam insulation it makes the eventual repair considerably dearer.
Call +1 902-201-3017, and send photographs if you have them.
Two chemicals meet at the gun in an exact proportion at a controlled temperature. Miss that proportion and the insulation never cures as it should.
The signs are consistent. A chemical odour still present weeks or months on. Spray foam insulation drawing back off the framing, at times by half an inch and more, which reopens the very air route the work existed to shut. A surface that has gone crumbly, chalky or an odd colour. Sheets letting go of the sheathing.
Spray foam insulation that has not cured can keep releasing compounds for a long time. It is not something to live alongside and it is not something to bury under new insulation.
The remedy is mechanical removal down to clean framing, then a proper spray foam insulation reinstallation. We do this work and we are straight with you about what it takes.
The other frequent cause is spraying onto a surface below the spray foam insulation's minimum temperature. The result looks the same: shrinkage and a bond that lets go.
It happens most often in winter attics and unheated garages, where somebody read the air temperature instead of the deck.
We read the substrate before any insulation goes on, and we bring heat in when the reading says to.
A roof leak, a burst pipe or a long running damp problem soaks insulation and it never recovers. Wet cellulose and wet fibreglass insulation stay wet, surrender most of their value, and hold whatever colonises them.
Insulation rodents have occupied is a different problem with the same conclusion. It leaves.
Insulation removal is dusty, cramped work carried out under containment with proper protective equipment. Then the cause gets addressed, because installing new spray foam insulation over an unrepaired leak simply restarts the same clock.
We assess the space first, so you know what insulation is there rather than guessing at it.
We contain the area and protect the rest of the house.
We remove and bag the old material mechanically, down to clean framing and sheathing.
We repair whatever caused it, or leave a clear written note of what somebody else needs to put right before we return.
We reinstall spray foam insulation to specification, with substrate temperature and conditions logged as the work proceeds.
One picture of spray foam insulation standing off a rafter, or of a stain under the sheathing, generally identifies the fault without anybody driving anywhere. Removal and replacement is one of the services covered on the home page.
Call +1 902-201-3017 or send the photographs over by email, and you will get an honest read on what you are looking at.
Cape Breton Spray Foam Insulation covers attics, foundations, crawl spaces, garages and new builds right across the island.
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 FoamArrange a spray foam insulation visit. We take measurements, read the substrate, and put an insulation price on paper that will not shift.
Tell 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.
