Attic Insulation
Attic spray foam insulation plugs the gaps at the top of the house and adds a layer that holds heat where people live. In an older Kitchener home with a cold bedroom, the attic is the first place we look.
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Spray Foam Insulation For Kitchener, Ontario Houses And Buildings
- Fully insured on every job
- Foam type and inches in writing
- Free measuring visit
- Depth gauged as we spray
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Type your name, best number and the room or area bothering you, and someone from our office phones you back. Prefer the phone? Our line is +1 (226) 407-7680.
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Our office aims to phone you the same business day to set up your free visit.
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Kitchener Spray Foam Insulation provides attic spray foam insulation, rim joist sealing and basement wall foam to Kitchener house owners, landlords and building managers. Every job we take on is fully insured. On our written quote you can read which foam each surface gets, the inch count for it and the square footage it covers, so every dollar is easy to trace.
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What we spray
Where We Spray In A Kitchener Building
Each card covers one part of a house or building, from the roof boards down to the sill.
Basement Insulation
Basement spray foam insulation grips concrete and block and keeps cold, damp air away from the wall. A chilly basement becomes a room people actually use in winter.
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Wall Insulation
Foam sprayed into open stud bays fills them from edge to edge and stops the drafts older walls let through. The best time to do it is when the plaster or drywall is already off.
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Rim Joist Insulation
Sealing the rim joist closes off the wooden band resting on your foundation, a spot that leaks more air than almost anywhere else downstairs. It is a short job that makes a basement far less drafty.
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Knee Wall Insulation
Knee wall spray foam insulation seals the short walls and sloped ceilings of an upstairs room tucked under the roof. It fixes the second floor that freezes in winter and bakes in summer.
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Crawl Space Insulation
Foam on the walls and band joist of a crawl space keeps cold and damp out from under the house. Floors above it warm up, and water lines down there stop freezing.
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Garage Insulation
Garage spray foam insulation keeps a garage warmer in winter, cooler in summer and drier all year. It also shields any bedroom built over the garage from the cold below.
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Commercial Insulation
Foam on the roof deck and walls lowers heating costs in offices, shops, warehouses and industrial units. One pass both insulates the building and seals its air leaks.
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Spray Foam Removal
Kitchener spray foam insulation removal starts where a bad install left off, with foam that went on wrong and has started to shrink, crack or smell. We cut it back to clean wood so new foam can go on properly.
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Why Us
Why Choose Kitchener Spray Foam Insulation
You get the whole job on paper before a drop of foam is mixed. If the attic gets open cell on the ceiling and the basement gets two inches of closed cell, both lines show up on the quote with the square footage beside them. That makes our spray foam insulation price simple to hold up against anyone else's.
The crew then sprays to that paper. Surface temperature is read before the first pass, the foam is built up in lifts, and we probe its thickness with a gauge from start to finish. Plenty of Kitchener houses went up between the Busy Berlin years and the 1970s, long before builders cared about air leaks, and spray foam insulation closes those leaks while it insulates.
Find out how we run a job from first call to clean-up, or send a note about your house and expect a phone call to choose a visit time.
Benefits
What Are The Benefits Of Spray Foam Insulation?
Foam expands into cracks, wiring holes and odd framing corners that a batt cannot reach, so drafts stop at the source.
Upstairs and downstairs settle at nearly the same temperature, even on a January night.
A sealed house lets the furnace and air conditioner cycle less often, which trims the gas bill in winter and the hydro bill in summer.
Closed cell foam doubles as a vapour barrier, so basement air never touches cold concrete or a damp sill.
Less outdoor dust, pollen and street noise find their way inside once the gaps are filled.
Sprayed at the right temperature and depth, the foam stays glued to the framing for as long as the house stands.
What Comes With Every Job We Book
These five things are part of every Kitchener spray foam insulation job, big or small.
- Each area we spray appears on your quote with its cell type, its inch count and its square footage.
- Depth readings are taken through the job and shared with you at the end.
- Plastic and drop sheets go over floors, windows and anything we cannot move before the rig starts.
- Foam trimmings and old insulation are bagged and leave with us that same day.
- The last step is a walk around the finished work together, with a clear time for moving back into the space.
Spray foam insulation details for Kitchener
Older Kitchener Homes Lose Heat Through Air Leaks First
Moving air is the main reason an older house feels cold. Heat escapes through gaps near the roof and pulls outdoor air in through gaps near the foundation, a loop that thicker batts barely slow down. Spray foam insulation breaks the loop because it bonds to the framing and fills each gap it meets.
Kitchener's brick homes from before 1916, its wartime cottages and its 1960s bungalows all share this weakness. That is why most of our visits begin in two places: up through the attic hatch and down at the basement sill.
Bedrooms Under The Roof Stay Cold Without Attic Sealing
Attic spray foam insulation is what we suggest most for a bedroom that never warms up. Kitchener gets more than five feet of snow in a normal winter, so a leaky attic gives itself away with long icicles, bare patches on a white roof and frost on nail tips in the attic.
Our attic spray foam insulation service either seals the ceiling plane or foams the roof boards, depending on what lives in the attic. Ductwork, a furnace or a finished room usually means the roof boards. An empty attic usually means sealing the ceiling, then topping it up.
Story-And-A-Half Homes Hide Cold Knee Walls
Knee walls are the short walls in an upstairs room with a sloped ceiling, and the space behind them is often barely insulated. The wartime houses around St. Mary's and plenty of older homes downtown were built with steep roofs and almost no eave, so those upper rooms bake in July and chill in February.
Our knee wall spray foam insulation work treats the short walls, the floor strip behind them and the sloped ceiling as one job. It usually needs a small hatch and a patient crew, and it changes how the whole top floor feels.
Concrete Basement Walls Need A Moisture-Proof Layer
Basement spray foam insulation warms a lower floor without trapping damp against the wall. Concrete and block pull moisture in from the soil, and a batt behind plastic can hold that water where mould starts. Closed cell foam sticks straight to the concrete, so room air never meets the cold surface.
The basement spray foam insulation page explains our approach to finished rooms, open basements and older block or stone foundations. Ontario's newer code nearly doubled the basement wall target for new homes, and closed cell foam gets there in a few inches.
Drafts Pour In Where The House Meets The Foundation
The rim joist is the wooden band sitting on the foundation wall, and in most houses it is the leakiest spot in the basement. Winter air slides over the concrete and straight into each joist bay. Chunks of batt pushed into those bays do very little.
We fill each bay with closed cell foam so the band, the sill and the concrete edge are sealed as one. A rim joist spray foam insulation visit is often our shortest job and one of the best uses of your money.
Brick Houses Near Victoria Park Often Have Hollow Walls
A lot of the older brick houses around Victoria Park and the Civic Centre streets were built with little or nothing in the walls. Owners tend to discover this halfway through a kitchen or bathroom renovation. That open wall is the ideal moment to fix it.
Once the studs are bare, we foam the cavities so the wall is sealed and insulated in one step. The wall spray foam insulation page covers plaster walls, brick backing and drafty old window frames.
Rooms Above A Crawl Space Have Cold Floors
A vented crawl space with no insulation chills the floor above it from November to April. Some Kitchener wartime houses still sit on crawl spaces, and so do many back additions and sunrooms. Water lines down there can freeze in a cold snap.
Closed cell foam on the crawl space walls and band joist blocks cold air and ground damp together. Our crawl space spray foam insulation work makes that space part of the heated house.
Frozen Garages Make Poor Workshops
An uninsulated garage sits close to the outdoor temperature, which makes it a chilly workshop and a cold neighbour for any bedroom above it. Foam sprayed across those walls and that ceiling keeps the space usable all winter.
The garage spray foam insulation page covers attached garages, bonus rooms over a garage and backyard shops.
Old Brick Factories Are Expensive To Heat
Commercial spray foam insulation suits the brick factories, warehouses and steel buildings spread across Kitchener. High ceilings, old masonry and bare metal decks shed heat fast and drip condensation in cold weather. Foam applied to the roof deck from inside insulates and seals in one pass.
Our commercial spray foam insulation page covers offices, shops and industrial units, and how we schedule around your business.
Failed Foam Gets Cut Away, Not Buried
Foam that went on too cold or out of ratio can shrink, crack or keep a sour smell for months. More foam sprayed over it will not fix it. The cure is to cut it back to clean wood and spray again.
Our spray foam insulation removal service also clears out old batts, loose fill and mouse nests before a new job, so fresh foam lands on a clean surface.
Hardware Store Foam Kits Struggle On Large Areas
A foam kit from the hardware store handles small gaps well. Across a whole wall it is hard to control. Both parts have to be warm and mixed at the right ratio, and the foam needs to go on in layers to reach depth without overheating. When any step slips, the foam pulls back from the wood and the gaps return.
Our rigs heat and meter both parts, and every area is gauged by hand. If you already tried a kit, we can check what is there and tell you whether it can stay.
What Spray Foam Insulation Costs In Kitchener
Ontario spray foam insulation prices usually fall between $2.50 and $7 per sprayed square foot. Open cell on an attic ceiling sits at the bottom of that spread, and closed cell on roof boards or crawl space walls sits at the top. Small jobs start at about $1,500.
The number that counts is the one on your written quote. Use the estimator below for a first range, then book the free visit to turn it into a firm figure.
What Might Your Spray Foam Insulation Cost?
Pick an area, type in the square feet you want covered, and the tool shows a typical Ontario range. The free visit swaps that range for a written number.
Treat these figures as Ontario going rates rather than our price. Access, depth and clearing out old insulation all move the final price, and small jobs start near $1,500.
Typical installed range
Is Your House Drafty By January?
We trace where the cold sneaks in and price the fix for each spot on a single written quote.
Our Process
What Happens During A Spray Foam Insulation Job?
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First comes the free visit, where we look at each area, measure it and go over closed cell and open cell with you. The written quote arrives by email afterward.
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On spray day, floors, windows and fixed items get covered, and fans are set up to move fresh air through the work area.
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We read the surface temperature and moisture, then raise the foam in lifts until it matches the inches on the quote.
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Depth is gauged across every area, and extra foam is shaved flat wherever drywall or a cover board will go.
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Waste is bagged and hauled away, and we walk through the finished work with you before leaving.
Service Area
Serving Kitchener From Bridgeport To Forest Heights
Kitchener Spray Foam Insulation covers the north and central parts of the city. That includes Downtown, Victoria Park, Mount Hope, Rockway and Centreville, plus Vanier, Stanley Park, Chicopee and Grand River North by Bridgeport.
To the west we work in Forest Heights, Westmount, Belmont Village, Laurentian Hills, Country Hills and Heritage Park. If your address is in Kitchener north of Highway 401, give us a call to set up a visit.
Get A Written Spray Foam Insulation Quote
Book a free on-site visit and receive a quote that breaks out cell type, depth and area for every part of the job.
Free Estimate
Tell Us About Your Kitchener Project
A few lines about the space make our first phone call shorter and more useful. Calls go to +1 (226) 407-7680.
Thanks — your request has been received.
Our office aims to phone you the same business day to set up your free visit.
For anything urgent, call +1 (226) 407-7680.
Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
Most rim joist and attic jobs wrap up in one day. A full basement or a large roof deck can run to two. The schedule is written into your quote.
Yes. Plan to be out during spraying and for roughly 24 hours after. We run fans through the work area and give you a set return time for the foam we use.
Closed cell is dense, stops vapour and fits basements, crawl spaces and rim joists. Open cell is lighter, costs less and fits attic ceilings and inside walls. Plenty of houses get some of each.
No. In any living space, foam has to sit behind drywall or an approved coating. Attics and crawl spaces follow lighter rules, and we explain which apply to your house.
No. The visit, the measuring and the written spray foam insulation quote cost you nothing.