Retrofit foam insulation involves spraying foam into wall cavities through a series of holes without having to take the walls down.
This insulates the home while minimizing your financial burden.
Contact North East Industries today to start benefiting from retrofit foam insulation in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
What is Retrofit Foam Insulation?
We use retrofit foam insulation to insulate the walls of homes that don’t have another form of insulation already installed. While it’s relatively straightforward to insulate a new home before drywall goes up, older homes can be challenging. Their walls may be made of plaster, and taking them down to add insulation would be time-consuming and costly.
Retrofit foam insulation allows us to inject spray foam into the cavities we’re insulating through a series of holes we drill in the wall. The foam slowly builds from the bottom of the cavity to the top until the entire space is insulated.
Benefits of Retrofit Foam Insulation
For older homes without another form of insulation, retrofit foam offers many benefits, including:
- Slowing heat transfer between walls
- Preventing moisture infiltration from the outside
- Insulating against outdoor noise
- Controlling your energy costs
How Does Retrofit Foam Insulation Work?
Retrofit foam insulation expands into the smallest crevices of a wall cavity and hardens into a rigid air and moisture barrier.
Retrofit foam insulation is similar to regular spray foam insulation but with one unique difference: it doesn’t start expanding until it reaches the bottom of the wall cavity. This gives the foam time to fill the whole space before it starts expanding and hardening.
We drill a series of holes into the walls where we’ll be working. We can do this on interior or exterior walls. We then insert tubes into the holes and inject the insulation. These holes are easily patched later for aesthetic purposes.
What Are the Types of Retrofit Foam Insulation?
Like regular spray foam insulation, retrofit foam comes in two types: open-cell and closed-cell.
- Open-cell retrofit foam: open-cell foam has more space between the bubbles that compose it. That makes it more expansive and malleable around hard-to-reach spaces in your walls. At the same time, open-cell foam allows some moisture to pass through it and is also less expensive than closed-cell foam.
- Closed-cell retrofit foam: closed-cell foam insulation is tighter and more solid than open-cell foam. It’s a better insulator due to its tighter consistency, but it is also more expensive for that reason.
Retrofit Foam Insulation Experts Serving Northeastern Pennsylvania
At North East Industries, we are experts in installing retrofit foam insulation in older homes. As insulation contractors and consultants, we always take safety and security into account while ensuring your insulation meets Pennsylvania building codes.
Contact us today by phone or online to start benefiting from retrofit foam insulation.