Spray Foam Insulation Before & After Photos

An unfinished basement can offer an easy solution to help make your home more comfortable, have better air quality and lower energy bills.  Spray foam insulation can help to create and air seal along with the insulation value when applied to the rim joists of a home.  This keeps external air and temperatures from entering the home and can help to lock in conditioned air that heats and or cools your home.  We removed the existing fiberglass insulation squares in this Oakton Virginia home.  

This home in Oakton Virginia had high energy bills from constantly running the heating and cooling system for the home at different times of year.  After a free home performance evaluation it was determined to be partially due to the HVAC duct system. Metal duct work ran through the attic.  In the summer this attic could get up to 130 degrees and in the winter the temperature could drop to 10 degrees.  Pumping hot air through a cold metal duct in the winter resulted in the air cooling as it travelled through the ducts and not being able to heat the rooms of the home as well as needed.  Pumping cold air through a hot metal duct system in the summer resulted in air that was not as cold as it needed to be to cool off the rooms in the home.  

Spray foam encapsulation of the duct systems creates and sealed and safe environment for the conditioned air to travel through and helps that air maintain its intended temperature. 

This sunroom in Fairfax, VA was very uncomfortable. Our team spray foamed the ceiling to make this room much more comfortable and energy efficient! 

This home in Fairfax VA had a multiple stage project to make the home more energy efficient and more comfortable.   One step was the encapsulation of the HVAC duct system in the attic with Spray Foam.  The existing ductwork had several holes at the joints where air was allowed to escape, making the HVAC system less efficient and requiring it to work harder and create more conditioned air.  The spray foam covering it protects the air from escaping and keeps attic temperatures from impacting the conditioned (cooled/heated) air travelling inside.  This will reduce the amount of energy used by the HVAC system and allow for better passage to the rooms it was intended to reach.  

These Fairfax Virginia homeowners called us to see if we could make some uncomfortable rooms warmer this winter.  There were 2 specific rooms in their home that were above a crawl space and would get noticeably colder than other areas of the home.  Our Certified Home Performance Sales Pro Eric was able to identify several services that would help.  The crawl space was vented and allowing external air and temperatures to impact the home.  Additionally the existing insulation was not air sealed so that cold air coming through the vents was working into the home above.  We removed the existing fiberglass and Styrofoam insulation before using spray foam to seal up the uncontrolled air flow in the crawl space as well as insulate.