Commercial buildings have a different insulation problem to a house. They are large, often steel framed, and usually holding a temperature a long way from the outside air.
Around here that mostly means food: processing, packing and refrigerated storage, plus the shops and warehouses that serve them.
A refrigerated room has the largest vapour drive of any building on a site. Thirty degrees and humid outside, a few degrees above freezing inside, and that difference pushes water toward the cold side constantly.
If it reaches the assembly it condenses, then freezes. Once ice forms inside an insulation layer it stops insulating and starts damaging the structure around it.
Closed cell foam is a continuous air and vapour barrier as well as insulation, with no seam for vapour to find. That is why it dominates this application.
A steel frame conducts heat very well, which is the last thing you want in a wall. Batts between girts leave the steel itself bridging straight through.
Foam sprayed over the inside face of the assembly covers the framing as well as the space between it. That continuous layer is worth more than the nominal R-value suggests, because it deals with the bridging rather than working around it.
Roof decks and underside of steel deck. Perimeter walls and gables. Loading dock surrounds, which leak badly and are usually ignored. Rim conditions at mezzanine floors. Refrigerated room envelopes. Boiler and mechanical rooms where you are trying to keep heat in a small space.
Commercial work brings its own requirements around thermal barriers, ignition barriers and flame spread ratings, and they are stricter than residential in occupied areas. We will spell out the covering requirement in the quote rather than leaving it for the inspection to raise.
We also work around production. Most of this gets done in a shutdown window or overnight, and that gets planned before the quote is signed.
Tell us the building, what it holds and what temperature you are trying to keep. We will walk it and give you a scope that separates the parts worth doing from the parts that are not. See every service we offer on the Leamington Spray Foam Insulation home page.
We work on houses, garages, crawl spaces, new builds, greenhouse sites and farm buildings throughout the south of Essex County.
An attic is the cheapest comfort you can buy in most Leamington houses, and it is usually the first thing we look at. Warm indoor air rises, finds every gap in the ceiling, and takes moisture with it on the way out.
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Most calls about a cold garage in Leamington are really calls about something attached to it. The bedroom above it, or the kitchen wall it shares with the house.
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Closed cell spray foam applied straight onto the foundation wall does three jobs at once. It insulates, it seals the air, and at the right thickness it is its own vapour control layer.
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Crawl spaces cause more comfort complaints than anything else we deal with, and almost all of them come down to one design assumption that no longer holds.
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The insulation decision changed when the 2024 code came into force. The R-values went up and, more importantly, the emphasis moved toward airtightness and whole-building performance.
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Insulation does not last forever, and in a damp climate it often does not last as long as people expect. When the existing material is wet, mouldy, rodent damaged or flattened, it has to come out before anything new goes in.
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We insulate the parts of a growing operation that should be insulated, and we are straight with growers about the parts that should not be.
View Greenhouse and Agricultural InsulationBook a look at it. What comes back is a single page naming the product, the installed thickness and the total.
Which space, roughly what size, and whether water has ever found its way in. Prefer to talk it through? Call (226) 286-5239.
