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.
The glazing stays clear. Everything else — headhouse, north wall, gable ends, corridors, mechanical rooms, packing areas — is where energy is lost continuously.
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The headhouse is usually the single biggest opportunity, and it is often barely insulated at all.
The north wall and gable ends lose heat steadily too, since there is no light benefit to justify glazing there.
Service corridors and connecting structures between ranges also need attention.
Boiler rooms, mechanical rooms and pump rooms need it too, both to hold heat where it is wanted and to keep it out of where it is not.
Packing, grading and shipping areas often need to run at a different temperature from the growing space entirely.
A growing facility runs at humidity levels almost nothing else does, and it runs there constantly.
Any insulation that is not a vapor barrier lets that moisture through to the structure behind it. In a steel-framed building that means corrosion. In a timber one it means rot.
Open-cell spray foam is not a vapor barrier, so it has no place in a growing facility.
Closed-cell handles the insulation and the vapor control in a single product, bonded tight to the substrate with no cavity for moisture to collect in.
Heat loss through an uninsulated headhouse or north wall is not seasonal. It runs every hour the facility is heated, right through the growing season.
That cost sits directly against your energy cost per square foot of production, which is one of the numbers that decides whether a crop pencils out.
Sealing the non-glazed envelope is usually the cheapest available reduction in that number, because you are not touching anything that affects light.
We will work out the areas with you and be straight about what is worth doing and what is not.
Nobody wants a spray rig running beside a crop at the wrong moment.
We plan around your calendar: between crops, during turnaround, or zone by zone while the rest of the facility keeps running.
Ventilation and re-entry are handled the same way as any other job, but with more care about what is growing next door. We will talk through containment before we start.
Nights and weekends work for us too, if that is what fits your schedule.
We walk the facility, identify the areas worth sealing, and give you a fixed written price with a phased schedule.
Call +1 226-315-1127 or email info@chathamsprayfoaminsulation.com. See every building type we insulate on our home page.
Chatham Spray Foam Insulation works on farm, commercial and residential buildings throughout Chatham-Kent.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We do houses too, including attics, crawl spaces, basement walls, rim joists and new builds throughout Chatham-Kent.
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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 ReplacementBook a site walk and we will measure, assess the structure and put a fixed number in writing.
Tell 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.
