Foam It Insulation Before & After Photos

This homeowner in Johnson City, NY wanted to improve the comfortability of her home. She'd had another company do work in her attic, but wasn't satisfied with it because there was no air sealing done previously. We proposed to remove the cellulose insulation that was there, air seal the attic flat and do an open blow of 12 inches of cellulose insulation. For the basement, we insulated the rim joists with 2 inches of our closed cell spray foam then installed our Basement to Beautiful panels around the entire basement walls.

These Johnson City, NY homeowners had lived in their home for nearly 20 years now and were still having issues with the second story of the home being too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. 

The attic was being used for storage for the homeowners and they wanted to make sure they still had that, but they had recently discovered issues with bats coming into the home, which they'd prefer not to have. We put 3 inches of our closed cell spray foam on the entire roof deck of the home to air seal any gaps or cracks that the bats may find to seek entry into the home. We also dense packed the slopes on the outside dormers. The walls of the home also needed additional insulation, so we proposed to dense pack the walls. 

To dense pack the exterior of the home, we first carefully removed the vinyl siding and drilled our holes for our hose. We then dense packed the holes with our Cellulose Insulation. Once the holes were densely packed, we plugged the holes with cedar wood plugs and sealed around the hole. We then replaced the vinyl siding as carefully as it was removed.

These homeowners in Johnson City, NY wanted to improve on the comfortability of their home as they had just had their second child. 

First, we set to work on the attic. The homeowners wanted to be able to keep using some of the space for storage, so we built a storage deck for them. We air sealed the attic space - sealing gaps, cracks, wire penetrations, and around light fixtures to ensure a tight seal. We built dams out of foam board to ensure the open blown cellulose insulation doesn't get on to the storage deck. We did an open blow of 12 inches of our cellulose insulation. We also had a rear attic with no access that was built along with an addition. We created access and did an open blow of 12 inches of cellulose as well in this attic space. We also custom built a hatch cover for the staircase to access the attic so there is a tight seal. 

The home also has aluminum siding, and we wanted to dense pack the walls with cellulose insulation. We carefully removed the siding and drilled the necessary holes in order to get our hose to dense pack our cellulose insulation into the walls of the home. We then dense packed the wall cavities, plugged the holes with cedar wood plugs, sealed around them and carefully replaced the siding again. We also spray foamed the rim joists of the home with 2 inches of our Closed Cell Spray Foam. Beneath the addition, there is a crawl space. We laid our 6 mil poly down and spray foamed 2 inches of our Closed Cell Spray Foam to the walls to adhere the poly to the sides as a vapor barrier for the crawl space.

For the basement, we installed our Basement To Beautiful panels on all the outside walls of the basement so the basement is well insulated with our SilverGlo panels. 

This home is now much tighter, and more energy efficient and will save these homeowners in their fuel and energy bills. 

This Johnson City, NY homeowner owned a rental property that he wanted to ensure had a good amount of insulation to help keep energy costs down. This brick building had no insulation in the walls, and needed to be dense packed. The only way to do this was to do it from inside, which was done with the homeowner's permission. 

We sprayed the rim joists of the home with 2 inches of our Closed Cell spray foam, as well as 2 inches of foam on the foundation walls. For the dense packing of the walls, we drilled our holes just big enough to fit our hose in to fill in the wall cavities, we then plugged the holes with cedar wood plugs, sealed them and then spackled over the holes for the homeowner to finish. We then insulated the attic flat. We began by air sealing the attic - sealing any gaps, cracks, top plates, wire penetrations and around light fixtures - then we did an open blow of 14 inches of cellulose insulation to the attic flat. 

These Johnson City homeowners were experiencing very cold floors in the winter and a very hot home in the summer time. The Home Comfort Evaluation that was done showed very little insulation in the home - as there was an inch of very old insulation in the attic space, with no insulation in the walls or rim joists.

For this project, we began by air sealing the attic. This meant sealing gaps, cracks, around wire penetrations and top plates. We then did an open blow of 14 inches of Cellulose insulation to the attic flat. We also dense packed the walls of the home with cellulose insulation and sprayed 2 inches of closed cell spray foam to the rim joists.