Chicago Spray Foam Insulation is totally committed to anticipating, solving, and supporting all of your foam insulation needs. Choose Chicago Spray Foam Insulation as your contracting partner when you demand a long-term, valuable, reliable, high performance, and energy efficient insulation or roofing system.
Spray Foam saves you money and pays for itself!
- Lower Heating cost 30 % to 50%
- Lower cooling cost 30% to 50 %
- $500 Energy tax credit for home owners
- $2000 Home builder tax credit
- Commercial tax credits
- Utility credit program
- Reduces capacity requirements, maintenance and wear of HVAC equipment.
PLUS…
- Stops Air and Moisture Infiltration
- Adds strength to the building structure
- Keeps dust and pollen out
- Reduces capacity requirements, maintenance and wear of HVAC equipment.
Spray Foam insulation saves on energy costs and lowers utility bills. SPF is used to seal the entire “building envelope” of your home to prevent air and moisture infiltration. The US Department of Energy (DOE) studies show that 40% of your home’s energy is lost due to air infiltration. This air infiltrates the home in the form of drafts through walls sockets, windows and doorways.
Often times no expensive building wrap or additional vapor protection is required during construction when using SPF, saving money yet again.
High R-Value:
Sprayed polyurethane foam has an aged R-value of approximately 7.0 per 1 inch thickness (depending on the particular formulation and application, higher values have been achieved), enabling it to provide more thermal resistance with less material than any other type of commercial insulation material. SPF systems are frequently used to insulate and protect a wide variety of residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
Monthly energy and utility savings of 30% or greater can be achieved when compared to the alternative insulation systems. The cost of a SPF insulation system can often be recovered in less than 5 years, simply through energy savings alone.
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Advantages of Sprayed Foam Insulation
Energy Savings
Creating an air barrier using Foam Insulation can reduce your energy cost 30% to 50% by eliminating air leakage. Many people believe that R-Value is the key to energy consumption. Unfortunately, R-Value does not factor in air leakage, the main source for energy loss.
R-Value is one of the most misused and misunderstood measurements in the world. The test results are determined in a 75-degree (F) lab with no wind load and ideal humidity. In such conditions the two insulation types are identical with respect to heat transfer. However, once the insulation is installed in a home in real world conditions, the heat loss/gain of fiberglass and cellulose are outrageous since cold and warm air move freely about them through convection. Spray Polyurethane Foam is an air barrier AND it is physically adhered to the wood framing members of a structure thus minimizing air infiltration. Think of fiberglass as a screen and Spray Polyurethane Foam as a window. Coincidentally, most furnace filters are made from fiberglass. These filters are obviously designed to allow the free movement of air through them.
Better Air Quality
Improving the indoor air quality is a key factor for many home buyers, especially those suffering from allergies, asthma, or other respiratory problems. Sealing the envelope of a house, random air leakages are eliminated and penetrations of dust, allergens, pollens and other pollutants are significantly reduced. This also allows you to design your heating and cooling equipment to maximize air quality. Humidity is better controlled so that you can eliminate health issues such as mold and mildew. Durable Spray Polyurethane Foam is inert. It does not settle, shrink,sag, turn into dust or decline in R-value over time. It offers no food value to bacteria, termites, insects or rodents.
A Quieter Home
Foam has a significant effect on airborne noises. It can also be used for soundproofing interior walls, plumbing stacks to reduce the sound of rushing water. Is Spray Polyurethane Foam Toxic? back up to topics Cured polyurethane foam is NOT toxic. However, when the foam is being applied we are basically making a plastic and thus, there are hazardous chemicals involved. Within a half hour of application and with proper ventilation there are no hazardous fumes present in the building. After curing it is an inert plastic that will last hundreds of years.
Chicago Spray Foam Insulation Proud to introduce Cellulose Insulation to their line of services.
While people may debate the causes of global warming, it is just common sense to use products that have the minimum impact on the environment.
Insulation, by reducing the amount of energy required to heat or cool a building, is environmentally friendly. But don’t be fooled into thinking all insulating materials are equal. There is plenty of greenwashing taking place to make products look more beneficial, or less harmful, to the environment than they really are.
Cellulose Insulation is one of the greenest products in the world. Cellulose insulation is made from recycled newsprint and other paper sources, paper that might otherwise end up in landfills, releasing greenhouse gases as it decomposed.
If all the paper currently being put into landfills each year were converted to cellulose insulation, it would save approximately eight million tons of CO2 emissions. That’s the equivalent of taking every car off the road in New Mexico and Nevada.
Cellulose Insulation delivers superior insulating performance and helps divert waste material from overcrowded landfills. Call us today for a quote on insulation your home or business with Cellulose Insulation!
A large percentage of heat escapes through the attic and the walls of a home. However, a new approach to insulation can make a big difference.
In order to build a better thermal envelope, we need to look at the second law of thermodynamics. This law states that heat flows in one direction, from a warm space to a cold one. For example, warm air inside a home will flow to the cooler air outside during winter months.
Fiberglass batt insulation helps prevent this from happening, but there’s a better method for preventing heat loss—one that is easy to install and is within your budget.
The best practice for insulating is to use spray foam insulation to fill the spaces between the framing studs in the walls and attic. Spray foam insulation is non-toxic and typically has a lifetime guarantee. It expands to about 100 times its original volume, so it fills in air gaps unlike standard fiberglass insulation. Over time, as the house expands and contracts, so will the foam insulation. This eliminates cracks and spaces for warm air to escape.
