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Spray foam insulation and your Environment

Whether you're thinking of remodeling or purchasing a new home selecting the right insulation is a task that is often overlooked. 

Your choice to use spray foam insulation can maximize your investment by sealing the building envelope to stop conditioned indoor air from escaping and prevent unconditioned air from entering a home. Improving indoor air quality and minimizing the incidence of moisture-related problems (like mold and mildew).  Its air-sealing properties create a draft-free environment that offers long-term payback for energy savings of up to 50%.

Lock In Energy Savings

Polyurethane spray foam from Indy locks in energy savings by adding an exceptionally high R-value insulation system to the building envelope and the roof deck. This advanced insulation is spray applied to any shape and substrate. It seals the building envelope to stop heat transfer through the walls, ceiling, and floors minimizing conditioned air from escaping, and restricts unconditioned air from entering the building.

Environmentally Friendly

An environmentally friendly home is a great benefit for builders, occupants, and the environment. Take an active role in helping reduce greenhouse gases, thus slowing the effects of global warming.

Indy applicators promote and install better building solutions. Solutions that are achieved through the application of spray foam insulation. They are committed to the highest quality installation standards, and demonstrate an aptitude of understanding building science. They value a collaborative approach to build and deliver safe, durable, and energy efficient buildings.

Highest R-value

Spray foam roofing offers the highest R-value of any traditional roofing insulation, leading to decreased energy consumption. Spray foam roofing is a rigid, closed-cell plastic created by a combination of two liquid components, which react in seconds and can be walked on in a matter of minutes. This roof system insulates and creates a lightweight, seamless, waterproof blanket over the substrate.

With construction expenses increasing and greater awareness of the long-term affects of energy use, building owners and design professionals are looking for cost-effective alternatives to conventional roofs. Spray Foam roofing is the alternative; a system that provides builders, architects, and owners with roofing solutions that support energy conservation, eliminates leaks and builds confidence.

Life-Cycle Cost Reduction

With everyone trying to reduce expenses, coupled with the rising cost of building materials, it is essential to use products that reduce life cycle costs. Reducing maintenance is an important consideration in lowering the life cycle cost of a roof.

Traditional roof systems require substantial maintenance activities that include conducting moisture test, repairing flashings, seams and patching holes and splits.

Energy Conservation

Spray Foam roofing will minimize your energy consumption by controlling the weather extremes of heat loss and heat gain through the roof system. Reduce the amount of energy needed to heat and cool the building while keeping temperature extremes to a minimum.

Weather Durability

Wind uplift is the primary cause of wind damage. Over time a traditional roof will be affected by the partial vacuum created by the wind blowing over the edge. This vacuum pushes up on the bottom side of the roof assembly and loosens fasteners, reduces the strength of the adhesion, and makes the roof vulnerable to future gusts of wind. Independent laboratories have performed tests showing that polyurethane foam enhances wind uplift resistance. Polyurethane foam roofs can also be repaired from wind damage much more quickly than a traditional roof.

Creating A Tight Building Envelope

The value of spray insulation is recognized during the application process. The materials are spray-applied and adhere to almost any substrate that they come in contact with; filling every crack and crevice along the way. Creating a tight building envelope is the fastest way to reduce energy consumption. Indys spray foam insulation products provide a thermal and moisture management system.

Maximize Your Investment

Air moves in and out of a home through every hole, crack, and crevice. The Department of Energy reports that heating and cooling (space conditioning) account for approximately 56% of the energy used in the typical North American home. Roughly one third of air infiltrates through walls, ceiling, and floors. Adding an advanced insulation system is necessary to achieve optimal building performance. Spray foam is that advanced insulation system.

Spray foam insulation maximizes a home buyer’s investment by sealing the building envelope to stop conditioned indoor air from escaping and prevent unconditioned air from entering a home. Air exchange in and out of a home is a leading cause of escalating energy bills. The mechanical systems that heat and cool buildings are continuously operating; reducing extreme temperature variations saves on the overuse of mechanical systems and leads to lower energy bills.

Maintain Moisture Management

In addition to energy consumption, air infiltration and exfiltration, within a home, contributes to almost 99% of moisture migration. Restricting air movement stops moisture accumulation so that the possibility of mold growth is less likely to occur. Combined with a properly sized HVAC system, spray foam insulation helps stabilize the indoor humidity levels to minimize moisture and condensation. Reducing moisture and controlling humidity can also add years to the life expectancy of a home, plus contribute to a healthier indoor environment.

Environmentally Friendly

An environmentally friendly home or business is a great benefit for you and the environment. Take an active role in helping reduce greenhouse gases, thus slowing the effects of global warming. By properly sealing your home and business you reduce the amount of oil that is needed to produce electricity and the carbon emitted into the environment.

Spray Foam Saves You Money

Spray foam insulation saves on energy costs and lowers utility bills. Spray foam insulation is used to seal the entire “building envelope” of your home to prevent air and moisture infiltration.

High R-Value

Sprayed polyurethane foam has an R-value of approximately 7.0 per 1 inch thickness (compared with Fiberglass at 3.5) enabling it to provide more thermal resistance with less material than any other type of commercial insulation material, making your home more comfortable and less expensive to heat in the winter, and cool in the summer.

Prevents Air and Moisture Infiltration

Traditional fiberglass insulation is only stapled, or placed into the wall cavities and does not seal the stud and wall cavities from end to end, or top to bottom. Air infiltration can pass through these gaps, making it far less efficient than spray foam insulation. Spray foam not only adheres to, but forms to the walls and floors to create a tight seal and insulating barrier that stops this air leakage.

Enhances Overall Building Stability

Since spray foam insulation is seamless and monolithic, foam sprayed into the walls enhances overall building stability and reduces “rack and sheer.”

Deadens Sound Travel and Noise

Spray foam insulation also reduces airborne sound making the home acoustically tighter and more private from room to room.

Add Value and Energy Savings

Insulation should add value to energy savings, sustainability, air quality, safety, durability, and comfort. The economic value of spray foam insulation lasts over the lifetime of a building to maintain the environmental needs of future generations.

Simplified Construction

Installing spray foam in between the studs will meet most R-value, air barrier, and water vapor retarder requirements.

HVAC Equipment Cost Saving

Tightening the building envelope can lead to energy savings of up to 50% and may also allow cost reductions from smaller HVAC systems. Moving the attic thermal boundary to the underside of the roof deck creates a conditioned space for HVAC units and ductwork to operate more efficiently.

Flexibility in Framing

High aged R-value of 7 per inch, permits stud and rafter size reduction to increase living space.

Enhanced Durability

Wall racking strength is up to three times stronger than conventional insulation in framed walls.

Wide range of applications

Can be used in both wood & metal framed structures, including walls, floors, ceilings, under roof decks, on attic floors, crawl spaces, basements and foundations.

Approved Applicators

Indy applicators invest in materials that have multiple characteristics in one finished product, allowing builders to confirm several requirements at one time.

Spray Foam has the highest R-Value

Spray Foam has the highest R-Value compared to all other types of available insulation products. R-Value is a measurement of thermal resistance. A higher R-Value means a greater ability to resist heat flow. Spray Foam has the highest R-Value (7 per inch) of any insulation product available today.

Spray Foam Does Not Sag, Settle, or Shrink

There are important differences to note between spray foam insulation systems and traditional insulation materials. The primary feature is that spray foam does not sag, settle, or shrink over time. Spray foam insulation is spray applied to fill cavities of any shape providing a continuous air barrier and it stays in place.

Because traditional insulation does not directly adhere to the substrate, the chance of the insulation material sagging overtime is high. If traditional insulation is not properly installed around irregular framing areas or it shrinks in the wall cavity, voids of 1-2% can lower the effective R-value of traditional insulation materials by 25-40%.

Spray Foam Stops Moisture Accumulation

Spray foams superior ability to restrict air movement also stops moisture accumulation so that the possibility of mold growth is less likely to occur. Combined with a properly sized HVAC system, spray foam insulation helps stabilize the indoor humidity levels to minimize moisture and condensation.

If fiberglass insulation has any gaps around complex framing or starts sagging, air starts passing through the envelope in both directions bringing with it dirt, dust, organics and moisture. These particles and moisture enter and get trapped in the insulation. Moisture starts condensing in cooler areas and when mixed with the dirt, dust and organics it creates mold.

Spray foam is rigid and stays inert for the life of the home while also sticking to and filling every single nook, cranny, crevice, hole, crack, and gap making a perfect continuous air-tight seal every time. Since spray foam makes an air tight seal, little to no air moves through it reducing the chance of creating mold situations.

Reducing moisture and controlling humidity can add years to the life expectancy of a home, plus contribute to a healthier indoor environment.