Farm buildings are the core of what we spray. Barns, machine sheds, grain storage, packing and grading rooms, workshops and equipment bays across Chatham-Kent.
An agricultural building is a different job from a house, and pricing one like a house is how people end up disappointed. Steel structure, big volumes, condensation rather than draughts, and a building that usually cannot be emptied.
Call +1 226-315-1127 and we will come and walk it.
Condensation, most of the time. Water forming on the underside of a steel roof and dripping onto equipment, feed, stock or product.
Heating cost is the second reason. A shop or workshop that cannot be held at a working temperature through a Chatham-Kent winter without burning money.
Third is deterioration. Damp getting into an older timber-framed barn and quietly rotting it from the inside.
All three come back to the same thing: air and moisture moving freely through the building envelope.
Closed-cell foam bonds directly to the underside of the roof deck and to the walls. There is no gap behind it, so warm interior air never reaches the cold steel.
No cold surface exposed to moist air means no dew point on that surface, and no water forming to drip.
Because it is applied wet and expands, it follows purlins, girts, trusses, bracing and penetrations without cutting or fitting. The irregular structure that makes batt work slow and imperfect is irrelevant.
And because closed-cell is a vapour barrier at the right thickness, it handles the moisture drive as well as the temperature difference.
Machine sheds and equipment storage, usually roof deck first.
Workshops and repair bays, where the goal is holding a working temperature.
Grain storage and handling buildings, where condensation on stored crop is the concern.
Packing, grading and produce handling rooms, which often sit somewhere between agricultural and food-grade requirements.
Older timber-framed barns being brought back into use, where we are often working around structure that is not square or plumb.
Thickness comes from what the building is for. A heated workshop and an unheated storage barn with a condensation problem are different targets.
Product is nearly always closed-cell in this setting, because of the moisture, the steel and the wash-down.
Covering requirements depend on how the building is classified and used, and we work that through with you rather than leaving it for an inspector to raise afterwards.
Partial scope is completely normal. Heated bay foamed, cold end left. We will price the split.
The building rarely empties completely, so we plan protection and phasing before we arrive.
Substrate temperature has to be inside the product's range, which in an unheated barn in winter usually means we bring heat in. That is priced in rather than discovered on the day.
Livestock and people have to be out during spraying and for the re-entry period afterward. On a working farm this needs the most planning, and it is the first thing we discuss.
We work around harvest, planting and delivery schedules. Tell us the weeks that are impossible and we will book around them.
We walk the building, measure it, check for existing moisture problems and give you a fixed written price with a schedule.
Free estimates across Chatham-Kent. Call +1 226-315-1127.
Chatham Spray Foam Insulation works on farm, commercial and residential buildings throughout Chatham-Kent.
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
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 product behind almost every agricultural and commercial job we do. Dense, rigid, and a vapour barrier as well as an insulator.
View Closed-Cell Spray Foam
Open-cell is the lighter, softer, cheaper spray foam. 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. Attics, crawl spaces, basement walls, rim joists and new builds throughout Chatham-Kent.
View Residential Spray Foam Insulation
If your foam 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 ReplacementBook a site walk and we will measure, assess the structure and put a fixed number in writing.
Building type, rough size, how it is used and what the problem is. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-315-1127.
