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.
We remove attic, wall, basement and crawl space insulation and dispose of it properly. It is quoted as its own job so you can see exactly what that part is costing.
Foam bonds to the surface it is sprayed onto. Spray it onto a damp compressed batt and you have not fixed anything. You have sealed a wet problem inside an assembly where nobody can inspect it.
The same goes for rodent contaminated material. Sealing that in does not make it go away, and you will smell it in July.
If the existing insulation is dry, intact and doing its job, we will tell you it can stay. We would rather do a smaller job properly than sell you a removal you do not need.
Batts hanging out of crawl space joists. That is almost always a sign the material has been wet and has lost its loft.
Grey, flattened or matted attic insulation. Droppings, runs or nesting material. A musty smell that gets worse in warm weather.
Water staining on the underside of the roof deck. Insulation packed tight against a soffit vent so the roof cannot breathe.
Anything that was installed over a leak that has since been fixed. It will still be holding the water.
We also remove spray foam that was installed badly in the first place. Off-ratio foam, where the two components were not mixed correctly, does not cure properly. It shrinks, pulls away from the framing, sometimes crumbles, and it can keep giving off a chemical smell for months.
There is no way to fix it in place and no way to spray over it. It has to be cut back to clean substrate and redone. If you have foam that still smells, or that has visibly pulled away from a rafter, get somebody to look at it.
The area gets sealed off from the rest of the house and put under negative pressure so nothing travels. Material is vacuumed out or bagged at source rather than carried through the building. Surfaces get cleaned down and, where needed, treated before anything new goes on.
Then we take a moisture reading on the bare substrate. That reading decides whether the new insulation goes in that week or whether something else has to be fixed first.
Photos help enormously here, especially of an attic hatch or a crawl space. Send what you can and we will tell you whether it is a removal job or 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.
View Basement Insulation
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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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.
View Commercial and Cold Storage Insulation
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.
