Spray Foam Insulation

Spray foam insulation is an ideal product that can be used for a number of useful purposes. This includes protection of your family’s health from exposure to allergens, dangerous molds and airborne pollutants. It can also ensure a decrease of those expensive utility bills and also insulate your home by sealing it off from moisture intrusion and air. This allows a feeling of comfort throughout your household, prevents pollen and dust and also moisture and air from coming in, enables you to have savings due to lower energy costs and it strengthens the structure of the building.

The spray foam insulation replaces home improvement methods usually used and also benefits energy efficient green initiatives and modern building sciences. With the use of spray foam it helps to save you money. This is because it basically pays for itself by lowering those costly utility bills and also saves an ample amount of energy. What this product does is seal your home. This is what is referred to as the ‘building envelope’ and when this is sealed it allows the prevention of moisture and air that unintentionally come into your home. Based on studies conducted by the US Department of Energy, also known as DOE for short, due to the infiltration of air, 40% of your home’s energy is lost. When this infiltrated air takes place in your home, it makes a formation of drafts through your windows, doorways and even your wall sockets.

When the use of Spray Foam Insulation is compared to the traditional insulation systems or even roofing, it is evident that your monthly energy and utility savings are lowered by at least 30%. About 40% of your homes total energy loss occurs because of the air that has been infiltrated. Fiberglass, which is often used for the purpose of insulating your home, is not as efficient as it may seem to be. This is sometimes stapled or sometimes placed within the cavities of the wall and this does not seal it properly from top to bottom, this allows infiltration of air to pass through the cracks left and this makes it faulty, it does not do the job specified. Spray foam Insulation on the other hand creates a tight seal by its formation on the walls and floors and prevents leakage of air.