Chatham Spray Foam Insulation works across Chatham-Kent, mostly on agricultural and commercial buildings. We insulate barns, greenhouses, machine shops, livestock housing, cold storage and packing facilities, with residential work alongside it.
That is a deliberate choice. Most insulation companies build around houses and treat a barn as an oversized one. The buildings here are not houses, and the problems in them are not house problems.
Chatham-Kent has more than 2,400 farms, over 630,000 acres of farmland, and more than 20 million square feet of greenhouse. Agriculture and agri-food drive the municipality.
That means the buildings that need insulating most are steel-clad, high-volume, humid, and in constant use. The failure that brings people to us is water dripping off a roof deck, not a drafty living room.
Working on those buildings every week teaches you things you do not learn from attics: how purlin spacing affects coverage, how to bring an unheated barn up to substrate temperature in February, how to phase a job so a packing line keeps running, and how to plan a spray around livestock.
Spray foam insulation is mixed at the gun in a precise ratio. Get that ratio wrong, or spray it onto a surface that is too cold or too damp, and you get insulation that never cures, never bonds and never stops smelling.
A large share of our work is removing somebody else's failed spray foam insulation. Almost all of it was off-ratio, sprayed too cold, or applied to a surface it could not bond to.
So we measure substrate temperature rather than guess at it, we bring heat into an unheated building before we start, and we run depth gauges as we spray so the insulation thickness is verified instead of eyeballed. The product, the thickness and the resulting R-value all go to you in writing when we finish.
That is the difference between a building that is sealed and a building that has to be stripped and sprayed again.
We come and walk the building. There is no useful way to price a barn, a shop or a greenhouse from a phone call.
We look at the structure, the existing moisture pattern, how the building is used and heated, and what has to keep running while we work.
We measure substrate temperature and check for existing water problems, because both change the job.
Then you get a written specification: product, thickness, the R-value that thickness delivers, how the foam insulation gets covered to satisfy the code, the re-entry period, and a schedule. You get one fixed price, and nothing gets added afterwards.
We turn work down, and it is cheaper than doing it badly.
If there is an active leak, that gets fixed before anything is sprayed. Foam over a leak conceals it and makes it worse.
If a roof is near the end of its life, spraying the deck now complicates replacing it. Sometimes the right order is roof first.
If open-cell is being quoted cheaply for a barn roof or a crawl space, we will explain why it is the wrong product rather than matching the price.
And if the building does not need what you are asking for, we will say so.
Almost nothing we spray can be emptied completely, so protection and phasing are planned before we arrive.
Livestock and people must be out during spraying and through the re-entry period. On a working farm that is the hardest thing to arrange, so we start there rather than leaving it until the end.
We work around harvest, planting, growing schedules and delivery windows. Tell us the weeks that are impossible and we plan around them.
We offer free written estimates throughout Chatham-Kent, from Wallaceburg to Ridgetown and out through the concessions.
Call +1 226-315-1127 or email info@chathamsprayfoaminsulation.com. See every building type we insulate on our home page.
Residential and commercial concrete coating systems, installed by our own crew.
Farm buildings are the core of what we spray. We insulate barns, machine sheds, grain storage, packing and grading rooms, workshops and equipment bays across Chatham-Kent.
View Agricultural and Farm Building Insulation
Chatham-Kent holds more than 20 million square feet of greenhouse, the second largest concentration in Ontario. Growing facilities are a specialist insulation job and we treat them as one.
View Greenhouse and Growing Facility Insulation
This is the most common building we are asked about. Somebody wants to heat a shop through the winter without the cost being absurd, or wants the dripping from the roof to stop.
View Shop, Machine Shed and Pole Barn Insulation
Animal housing is the most demanding insulation environment on a farm. Stock generate constant heat and a great deal of moisture, and ventilation moves it onto every cold surface in the building.
View Livestock and Poultry Barn Insulation
Chatham-Kent's agri-food sector moves an enormous amount of produce through packing, grading and cold storage. Those buildings live or die on their envelope.
View Commercial and Cold Storage Insulation
Closed-cell is the insulation behind almost every agricultural and commercial job we do. It is dense, rigid, and a vapor barrier as well as an insulator.
View Closed-Cell Spray Foam
Open-cell is the lighter, softer, cheaper spray foam insulation. It expands much further than closed-cell, seals air just as effectively, and costs roughly half as much per board foot.
View Open-Cell Spray Foam
We do houses too, including attics, crawl spaces, basement walls, rim joists and new builds throughout Chatham-Kent.
View Residential Spray Foam Insulation
If your foam insulation smells, has shrunk away from the framing, or is crumbling, it was installed badly. It can be put right, but not by spraying over it.
View Failed Spray Foam Removal and ReplacementTell us the building type, rough size, how it is used and what the problem is. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-315-1127.
