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.
Get the envelope wrong and you get wet bedding, corroding steel and an environment working against your herd or flock.
Call +1 226-315-1127 to arrange a site visit.
A barn full of animals is a continuous source of warm, wet air.
That air meets cold roof steel and cold walls. Water forms, then drips onto bedding, feed and stock below.
Wet bedding costs money and affects animal health. Persistent condensation corrodes fasteners, cladding and structure, which shortens the life of the building itself.
Ventilation alone does not fix it, because the cold surfaces are still there.
Sprayed to the underside of the roof deck and to the walls, closed-cell foam insulation holds those interior surfaces above dew point.
Bonded directly to the substrate, there is no cavity behind it where moist air can reach cold steel.
Being a vapor barrier at sufficient thickness, it also stops moisture driving into the assembly rather than just insulating against temperature.
The result is a building whose interior surfaces stay dry, which is the point.
Blanket and batt systems in livestock buildings have a predictable failure pattern. Birds get behind them, vermin nest in them, and they sag and tear.
Once that starts, the insulation stops working and becomes a hygiene problem of its own.
Foam is continuous and adhered. There is no cavity to get behind and nothing to pull down.
It also seals the small gaps around penetrations and at junctions that let pests in to begin with.
Where a building gets washed down, the detailing matters more than the insulation.
Foam has to be carried properly into junctions and around penetrations rather than stopping short and leaving an edge for water to get behind.
The covering requirement still applies, and in a wash-down area the covering has to suit the cleaning regime as well as the fire code.
Tell us how the building is cleaned and we will spec against that rather than guessing.
Animals must be out of the building during spraying and for the re-entry period afterward. There is no version of this job where they stay in.
That is the hardest part to arrange on a working operation, so it is the first thing we plan, not the last.
We will work to whatever window you can create — between batches, during a turnaround, or section by section in a building that can be divided.
You get the re-entry time in writing before we book anything.
We walk the building, look at the ventilation and the existing condensation pattern, and give you a fixed written price and schedule.
We serve livestock and poultry operations anywhere in Chatham-Kent. Call +1 226-315-1127. 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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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.
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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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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.
