Foam It Insulation Before & After Photos

This Spencer, NY homeowner was tired of being extremely hot and cold in his home. There was no carpeting on the floors of the mobile home to add any warmth. Beneath the mobile home, the fiberglass insulation had sagged away from the underside and was draped on the ground or hanging from the home. 

We proposed to remove all of the fallen fiberglass and install Tyvek, then spray 3 inches of our Closed Cell Spray Foam to the underside of the home. This will help the floors be warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer by preventing the air from coming up through the floors. 

This mobile home owner in Spencer, NY was feeling very cold during the winter despite using a space heater in the living room to try and keep warm. He also complained of cold rooms and floors in the kitchen and bathroom - he wanted to be warmer in his home but reduce his heat and electric bills. We proposed to spray the underside of the mobile home with 3 inches of our closed cell spray foam to help retain the heat he was paying for the stay inside the home, and to prevent the cold air from coming up beneath the home and coming into the floors giving him an uncomfortably cold experience.

This project involved insulating a 3 season room in a home in Spencer, NY.

3 inches of closed cell foam was sprayed to the roof deck.  Though it can't be seen here, the walls were sprayed with 2 inches of foam.  This room will now be more comfortable all year around.

Since attics are vented, we should think of them thermally as outside in the winter. Because of the suns radiant heat in the summer, they are much worse than outside, reaching 140 degrees on the summer days. Clearly, we need to keep an absolute boundary between our living space and the attic so inside air doesn't move to the attic in the heating season, and heat doesn't pass up through our ceilings in winter, and down from our ceilings in the hot summer. To reduce overall air leakage, the attic is the first priority because warm air rises to the top of the house and finds any and all holes to leak out into the cold vented attic and is lost. Holes, gaps and joints include between drywall and framing at the top of walls, around pipes, wires, chimneys, electric boxes, fixtures, ducts, ceiling grilles and joints in framing. The reason cold air leaks in from the outside into the lower levels of the house is that warm air (the air you pay to heat in the winter) leaked out of the top and created a suction at the bottom. Attics are dramatically under-insulated compared to today's standards. 

Adding insulation in an attic without sealing all air leaks first should never be done, because you are burying air leaks and making them impossible to seal later - and fiberglass insulation DOES NOT STOP air leaks. That's why Foam It Insulation first carefully air seals the many various points where air from your home leaks up into your attic and is lost. We use expanding foam, boards, caulk, and metal flashing and fire caulk around your masonry or metal chimney as appropriate. If necessary, baffles are installed in each rafter bay to keep soffit vents clear and prepare for insulation. Finally, our premium TruSoft cellulose insulation is blown to the optimum R-value. TruSoft will not burn, get moldy, or attract pests. Blown insulation fills all gaps and odd shaped voids, and by filling over framing members, thermal bridging is avoided. 

This home already had some very old cellulose in the attic. It had been blown around from wind due to a lack of air sealing when it was initially installed, when we took a look at this home we also noticed that there wasn't a very adequate amount of insulation to make a difference. We air sealed the attic, making sure those small gaps and air leaks are resolved going forward, and blew TruSoft Cellulose and make sure the attic was now completely air sealed and insulated.