Superior Insulators Spray Insulation

Our sprayer spraying open cell
foam insulation

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[JNBENY]

Who is saying we spray just to meet code with foam we usually surpass code."

especially when we spray closed cell foam R-7 per inch!" So in the case of a 2x6"

wall code is R-19 we're in there at R-42." So what problem do you see now?"

foam continues to be the best insulation I feel the Foamco insulation

company is the best in New York -----John Boggs--- 2011 05/28

[JNBENY]

Who is saying we spray just to meet code with foam we usually surpass code."

especially when we spray closed cell foam  R-7 per inch!" So in the case of a 2x6"

wall code is R-19 we're in there at R-42." So what problem do you see now?"

[JNBENY]

Who is saying we spray just to meet code with foam we usually surpass code."

especially when we spray closed cell foam R-7 per inch!" So in the case of a 2x6"

wall code is R-19 we're in there at R-42."

[JNBENY]

Who is saying we spray just to meet code with foam we usually surpass code."

especially when we spray closed cell foam R-7 per inch!"

[srpoolboy]

I can do the same thing with spray on blowing wool for half the price, give you a fire rating and gaurentee you no voids and consistant R-value and no VOC out gasing....can't wait for the day when that foam is forever banned

[JNBENY]

You must really fear competing against foam, by your comment.

forever banned ? We used the very

inferior blowing wool (junk )

[d1incharge]

3200sqft, .35ACH, loose fill. I avg 80$/mo. utilities. 45$/mo. to heat and cool. KS, gets extremely cold, extremely hot. Extra cost of foam bids for new home was 5k, which would add 35$/mo. to morgage. Do you think a home w/foam will cost less than 10$/mo. for HVAC? Even if I were able to disconnect the HVAC because foam works miracles, it would still take 500 mo. or 41.6y to payback. Here in reality, it costs more than 10$/month for HVAC, and you lose $. #1 Reason 95% of builders dont use it!

[d1incharge]

85% of the insulation market in the world is fiberglass. Why is everybody thinking a home needs to be sealed? Yeah, maybe 40 year old homes and older. Requirements are 100% fresh air every 3 hours. Most new homes with fiberglass that I have tested (over 1000 homes) were around that number, or too tight. The homes I have tested with foam were dangerously air tight thanks to this simple fact. The dumbest guys in const. are drywall, concrete, INSULATION.

[HomeEnergyNow]

One real quick way to know if your builder cares or is worth a shit. If they use spray foam insulation...they may care..but they are not worth a shit. Your a home builder than damn it you really should be able to do the simple math that proves at a higher cost foam actually has lower performance. The only builders using foam a: suck at math b:lack common sense c: are using it because an ignorant customer demanded it. Please can I heat and cool my attic space? AND believe it lowers bills! LOL

[HomeEnergyNow]

American manufacturers have lemons, Ford with the least of the three. Want to avoid lemons w/out even having to look at the car? Buy Honda, Toyota, anything Japanese and you will never see a lemon again. (except on the news where our GM Dodge Govt. owning media try to give toyota a bad name) There is usually a predrywall inspection, so you really cant cover anything up that doesn't get inspected. Want inspections you can trust?Get your fellow citizens together offer real pay, and oversight

[1timby]

@HomeEnergyNow You're extremely lucky or a liar. Just because you do due diligence doesn't mean that you won't buy a lemon. Every manufacturer has them. Same way with a house. You can do all the homework you like but it doesn't guarantee that some subcontractor doesn't screw up and bury their mistake in a wall. So unless the home owner takes the house apart they're never going to know. Use some common sense. Every home owner has to rely on the inspector and builder to do their jobs.

[HomeEnergyNow]

Never bought a lemon car before. I inspect/research them before I buy them. Guess who is in charge of the city, it's citizens. Yet again, don't push blame on to a builder YOU, citizens of a city, allowed to build "millions". It is your fault A: Buying junk houses, creating the market (hire a builder/inspector/engineer ANYBODY) to inspect if you don't know houses. B: Every person working for the city is WORKING FOR YOU CITIZENS, your employee YOUR responsibility. YOU ignored them, guess what?

[1timby]

@HomeEnergyNow Wow research a house. There isn't a way a home owner can see behind the walls or under tile flooring. Since the city failed to perform due diligence then home owners sued. The company went out of business instead of paying up. So they were stuck with these homes with no recourse(millions of homes). So, It's our fault because we should know more than the builder. So if you get a lemon of a car it's really your fault as should should know more than the car builder. Interesting

[HomeEnergyNow]

You should see what mobile homes look like. Blame the home makers? hmmmm. Or the people buying mobile homes or subpar quality homes? Again, inspections are there for a reason, the people put them there. Those same people that all chip in for that salary are the ones that need to make sure they are getting their money's worth. Their fault 100%. Didn't happen in my town, guess N. Texans just think govt.'s there to take care of them, when it is the other way around. We drive bad inspectors out!

[HomeEnergyNow]

Houses are no different than something like a car. You can research on of the worst cars to buy is Chyryster/Dodge has been for decades, but people still buy that junk. Let them shoot themselves in the foot by not doing a better job of being informed, if you are making the biggest financial decision of your life, there is no excuse not to educate yourself on how to make a sound investment. People put too much faith in realtors for one, they don't know sht about houses other than how to sell them

[HomeEnergyNow]

@1timby Thats funny, aluminum is I think better than copper, it just requires special treatment at the connections. I was in a 70 year old house with aluminum, I have a thermal camera so I can actaully check all of the connections for over heating, it was fine. As customers, it is your responsibility to hire a home inspector, if you find a good one, they will point those things out and you can find better. People don't care, they want location and pretty cabinets.

[1timby]

@HomeEnergyNow Well MR Wizard (MR builder extraordinaire) why don't you tell us how it's right to install aluminum wiring in a house to outlets, switches, circuit breakers that have warnings that are only for copper? Oh how about building with 2x4's on 24" centers and cladding the walls with 3/8 drywall. Or 2x4 roof trusses on 24" centers with 3/8's plywood? Entire neighborhoods built on land that shifts into the local creek.

It's builders like you that give building a bad name.

[HomeEnergyNow]

Four comments on surpassing code, none about the ceiling insulation, the most important insulation in a house! Hmmm. Walls: the least important place for r-value in a house. Well you got the walls past code, how bout that ceiling? Your open cell ceiling in this video. 7-8" of open cell what is that @ R-24? I know states below NY that require R-49. You don't make half of the requirements! Foam is the worst. License #CAN06347 Building Performace. Rely on a fan motor for fresh air? Good luck.