Spray Foam Insulation Evansville, IndianaWelcome to Evansville Spray Foam Insulation. As insulation professionals, we install superior quality spray foam insulation in homes and commercial buildings. Born and built here in Evansville, we know exactly what your home or building requires for proper insulation.
Indiana's winters are cold and summers hot, with only April and May having comfortable temperatures. Summer temperatures can top 100 degrees, and in January, some days are a frigid 15 degrees. Is your insulation up to the job? Whether you need commercial insulation or residential insulation, our professional insulation contractors have the necessary expertise and experience to give you an energy-efficient home or office. Evansville Spray Foam Insulation in Evansville, Indiana, installs the highest quality spray foam attic insulation, wall insulation, and basement crawl space insulation. |
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Your Local Insulation ProfessionalsOur spray foam experts will evaluate your home or business for energy efficiency and use our knowledge and experience to present you with a spray foam insulation plan and cost estimate. Our foam insulation installers will remove any old insulation and expertly install spray foam insulation in your Evansville, Indiana home or business. We leave you with clean, energy-efficient living or workspace.
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What is Insulation?Before you add home insulation or commercial insulation, you should know what insulation does for a structure. Insulation is material installed in open spaces in a building between:
Insulation limits heat transfer from inside to outside and outside to inside a building. Wall insulation, crawl space insulation, and attic insulation limit air movement. The insulation industry rates an insulation's ability to prevent heat transfer in terms of its R-factor or R-value. See more about R-value below. When Evansville Spray Foam Insulation installs spray foam in your Evansville, Indiana structure, healthier conditioned air stays in and unconditioned, unhealthy air stays out of a living or working space. Installing spray foam insulation in your Evansville, Indiana home, results in cleaner, healthier air and less illness and allergies for your family. Spray foam insulation lowers your energy bills like other insulation types but provides some benefits that other types of insulation do not. |
What is R-Value or R-Factor?
R-Value measures how well insulation resists temperature change. While the formula for R-value is complicated, comparing the values between insulation materials is easy. The higher the number, the better the resistance to temperature change, and the more you save on your energy bills.
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How Does Heat Transfer?
Heat transfer occurs by conduction, convection, and radiation. If you have ever put a spoon into a hot cup of coffee and felt the heat in the spoon, you know about conduction. With convection, the heat circulates through the air or the water. Hot air is lighter, so it rises, making your attic hotter in the summer. Cold air sinks because it’s denser, so your basement may be uncomfortably cold in the winter months. Radiant heat is transmitted through electromagnetic waves. The waves are absorbed and converted into heat. Radiant heat changes the temperature of all solid objects in its path that are capable of absorbing energy. Spray foam insulation is the only insulation material that inhibits conduction, convection, and radiant transfer.
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Why Spray Foam Insulation?
Insulation contractors install many insulation materials using several methods for their installation. We recommend spray foam insulation. Insulation materials like cellulose, rock wool, and fiberglass can be blown into spaces with fiber blowing and vacuuming machines. Blown insulation installation can be messy, and if the materials get wet, ceilings sag, fungus grows, and cleanup is difficult and expensive. The same materials are available in the rolls or batts you see in DIY stores. Rolls or batts are easy to install in open spaces like attics but don’t work as well for hidden, smaller, or oddly shaped areas. Batts and blankets of insulation leave gaps, cutting their insulation efficiency.
Spray foam insulation in Evansville, Indiana structures offers many advantages over other insulations:
Spray foam insulation in Evansville, Indiana structures offers many advantages over other insulations:
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Fast InstallationSpray foam insulation for your Evansville, Indiana home differs from more traditional insulation materials like fiberglass or cellulose. Evansville Spray Foam Insulation can finish installation in a typical Evansville, Indiana home in a single day. Our insulation contractors spray a combination of two liquids that react with each other to create a foam that expands to between 40 and 100 times its original volume. The foam fills every inch of a space within seconds, dries rapidly, and cures completely within 24 hours.
Superior InsulationSpray foam insulation fills the entire crawlspace, wall, or ceiling and seals the cracks, holes, and crevices left by plumbers and electricians during construction or renovations. Because the insulation starts as a liquid, insulating intricately shaped spaces around windows and skylights poses no problem. In addition to filling open spaces more completely, spray foam insulation in an Evansville, Indiana building prevents air movement and heat exchange better than other insulations. R-value, a measurement of insulation capability, is higher for spray foam insulation than different insulation types. There are three categories of spray foam insulation, open-cell, closed-cell, and high density. R-value for open-cell spray foam runs about 3.6 or 3.7 and closed-cell between 6.0 and 7.0 per inch. In contrast, loose fiberglass insulation only measures between 2.2 and 2.9. Higher R-value means conditioned air stays in, and unconditioned cold or hot outside air stays out.
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Water BarrierSpray foam insulation in a home or business in Evansville, Indiana, stops water from entering better than any other type of insulation. Spray foam insulation qualifies as a flood damage-resistant product, according to FEMA. Flood damage resistant material must be able to withstand prolonged contact with water without incurring significant damage. FEMA requirements and factors affect flood insurance rates. Attics or basement spaces not treated by your HVAC system can trap the water vapor naturally caused by seasonal temperature changes. When the vapor condenses, water drips from the attic, damaging your walls and ceilings. Spray Foam Insulation in your Evansville, Indiana home or business, prevents drastic temperature changes in these spaces, preventing condensation and saving you from costly repair bills.
Sound Proofing InsulationSpray foam insulation buffers sound in Evansville, Indiana homes. The hardened foam makes denser walls and keeps traffic noise and your neighbor’s loud music out of your home. Structural Strength - Something solid is stronger than something hollow. Filling all the empty spaces in a building in Evansville, Indiana, with spray foam insulation makes the structure sturdier and more able to withstand high winds. Your Evansville, Indiana house or commercial building will be safer from storms if you add spray foam insulation.
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Structural StrengthSomething solid is stronger than something hollow. Filling all the empty spaces in a building in Evansville, Indiana, with spray foam insulation makes the structure sturdier and more able to withstand high winds. Your Evansville, Indiana house or commercial building will be safer from storms if you add spray foam insulation.
Repels PestsSpray Foam Insulation in your Evansville, Indiana home, or business blocks access routes for pests. Insects and rodents have a hard time getting into an Evansville, Indiana structure if all the cracks and spaces are full of spray foam insulation.
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Long-LastingYou must replace insulation like fiberglass rolls or blown cellulose when, over time, the material breaks down and becomes less effective. Water easily damages the pulverized paper often used in cellulose insulation. Wet insulation breaks down and promotes mold growth, so you must replace it even sooner. Foam Insulation installed will effectively insulate an Evansville, Indiana structure for as long as the building stands.
Environmentally FriendlyBy not replacing insulation, you use less material, making spray foam insulation a greener choice for Evansville, Indiana. Replacing insulation more often leads to adding more waste to the landfill. Spray foam insulation prevents flood damage, which also prevents wasting natural resources.
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HealthierSpray foam takes 24 hours to completely cure and become nontoxic. After this initial period, there are no harmful fumes or airborne particles to cause health problems. Because spray foam insulation prevents unconditioned air from getting in, inside air is healthier.
Increased ValueToday's homebuyers want well-insulated homes. No one wants to buy a house with high heating and air conditioning bills. Commercial property buyers or leasers don’t want high energy bills either. They look for comfortable temperatures and healthy air for themselves and their employees. Evansville, Indiana houses and commercial structures with spray foam insulation appeal to buyers because they will never need new insulation. The higher the demand for a property, the higher it’s value.
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Where Can’t Spray Foam Insulation Be Installed?
Spray foam insulation should not be installed around recessed lighting, electrical boxes, or ceiling light boxes.
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Which Spray Foam Insulation is Best
There are three types or levels of spray foam insulation you can have installed in Evansville, Indiana, and each has advantages and best uses.
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Open CellOpen Cell Spray Foam Insulation, also known as low-density spray foam, is less compressed and softer, so it better tolerates structural expanding and contracting caused by seasonal temperature changes.
Open cell costs less than the other two options but surprisingly provides the best soundproofing insulation. Evansville Spray Foam Insulation may recommend open cell for your house in Evansville, Indiana, if you have noisy neighbors or lots of traffic and street noise. |
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Closed CellClosed Cell Spray Foam Insulation or medium density spray foam is more dense than open-cell insulation, and it enhances a structure’s strength. The denser, closed cell spray foam insulation protects an Evansville, Indiana home better from flooding and wind damage. The R-Value or insulating ability is higher per inch of foam in closed cell than open cell. This insulation type can be used for interior wall cavity fill and unvented attic applications.
If Evansville Spray Foam Insulation fills the walls of your Evansville, Indiana commercial building with closed-cell foam, the structure will better withstand mother nature’s worst. The higher the density of spray foam insulation installed in Evansville, Indiana, the more stable the building. |
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High-DensityHigh-Density Spray Foam Insulation has, as the name implies, the highest density of the three types.
It’s more water repellant and has the highest degree of insulation per inch. Building and roofing contractors often use high-density spray foam insulation for exterior walls and roofing applications insulation. |
Our professionals will recommend the best spray foam insulation choices for the different areas of your home or commercial structure in Evansville, Indiana.
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What About Do-It-Yourself Spray Foam Insulation?DIY stores sell spray insulation kits, but you should know some facts before attempting a spray insulation project. Installing yourself may seem easy enough. You buy the kits and simply spray the areas you want to insulate, but you must do the work under specified atmospheric conditions like temperature and humidity. The spray foam equipment provided with DIY kits does not work as efficiently as professional level machines, so the chemicals may not mix precisely right.
The resulting insulation may be less efficient than professionally installed insulation. You can rent professional equipment, but it’s expensive, especially to do a single job. Spreading the foam evenly on surfaces and in spaces can be tricky and take practice. You may end up removing the foam and starting over if you get it wrong the first time. Spraying too much insulation too fast in an attic can cause a fire. You need protective gear like a respirator and eye protection. You must wear protective clothing to avoid getting the chemicals on your skin. You probably are considering installing the spray foam yourself to save money but do some math before deciding. Check kit prices and calculate the number of kits you will need. Kits will indicate insulation coverage in board feet. A kit for 200 board ft, for example, contains 16.7-cubic feet of foam. Once you total up the kits and equipment, call Evansville Spray Foam Insulation for an estimate for professional installation. The savings may be less than you imagine, and professionals are better equipped and trained to do the job quickly and safely. Professional insulation will save you more on energy bills. |
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Call Evansville Spray Foam Insulation to speak to our experts and get a free estimate. Whether you need home insulation or commercial insulation, trust our team to install superior quality spray foam insulation professionally. We insulate new homes, existing homes, additions and renovations, commercial applications, agricultural buildings, and more. Our prices are competitive and our service exceptional. Our team members are responsive and deliver professional installation on every job. You can look forward to a cleaner, more comfortable, and energy-efficient living or working space.