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Commercial Spray Foam

commercial spray foam insulation

There is no better commercial insulating material that can seal your business from air and moisture intrusion, save on costly utility bills, strengthen your building, and protect you and your client's health from dangerous mold, airborne pollutants, and allergens than Spray Foam insulation.

Benefits of Atlanta Spray Foam Insulation

  • Stops air and moisture infiltration
  • Makes your structure more comfortable
  • Saves on energy costs
  • Adds strength to the building structure
  • It is permanent and will not sag
  • Reduces capacity requirements, maintenance and wear of HVAC equipment
  • Deadens Sound Travel and Noise
  • Reduces airborne sound making the home acoustically tighter

Commercial Spray Foam Insulation Energy Savings Creates Fast Return

Spray Foam Insulation Redefines Traditional Commercial Construction Methods and Benefits Modern Building Sciences and Energy Efficient Green Building Initiatives Spray foam used in the Building Envelope in Atlanta. It outperforms fiberglass insulation, becomes a superior air barrier, and defies traditional, and perhaps, outdated building practices of attic and crawl space ventilation.

Green Earth Services of Atlanta services the following cities: Atlanta, Buckhead, Buford, Dunwoody, Gainesville, Hamilton Mill, Lawrenceville, Marietta, Cumming, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Suwanee, and Woodstock, Lilburn, Norcross, Powder Springs, Grayson, Sugar Shill, Snellville, Athens, Dacula, Kennesaw, Canton, Holly Springs, Acworth, Vinings and Huntsville, Alabama.

High R-Value Spray Foam

Sprayed polyurethane foam has an aged R-value of approximately 6.0 per 1 inch thickness (depending on the particular formulation and application, higher values have been achieved), enabling it to provide more thermal resistance with less material than any other type of commercial insulation material. Atlanta Commercial spray foam insulation systems are frequently used to insulate and protect a wide variety of commercial, and industrial buildings.

Monthly energy and utility savings of 30% or greater can be achieved when compared to the alternative roofing and insulation systems. The cost of an commercial spray foam insulation system can often be recovered in less than 5 years, simply through energy savings alone.

Prevents Air, Moisture and Gas Infiltration

Studies have shown that as much as 40% of a building’s total energy loss is due to air infiltration. Traditional fiberglass insulation is only stapled, or placed into the wall cavities and does not seal the stud and wall cavities from end to end, or top to bottom. Air infiltration can pass through these gaps, making it far less efficient than commercial spray foam insulation. Commercial spray foam insulation not only adheres to, but forms to the walls and floors to create a tight seal and insulating barrier that stops this air leakage. Atlanta Commercial spray foam insulation also boasts the highest R-value per inch than any other commercial material, (upwards of R-7.0, compared with Fiberglass at R-3.5) making your building more comfortable and less expensive to heat in the winter, and cool in the summer.

Since Commercial spray foam insulation acts as an air barrier, it also helps to reduce moisture infiltration, which is a source of dangerous mold and mildew growth in a building, and can cause severe health problems to its occupants. So save yourself, your clients and save money at the same time with Commercial spray foam insulation systems. Moisture infiltration can also cause structural damage to your building.

Helps Reduce Moisture and Mold

Molds produce tiny spores to reproduce. Mold spores waft through the indoor and outdoor air continually. When mold spores land on a damp spot indoors, they may begin growing and digesting whatever they are growing on in order to survive. There are molds that can grow on wood, paper, carpet, and foods. When excessive moisture or water accumulates indoors, mold growth will often occur, particularly if the moisture problem remains undiscovered. There is no practical way in Atlanta to eliminate all mold and mold spores in an indoor environment; the way to control indoor mold growth is to control moisture. Commercial spray foam insulation is the key.

Enhances Overall Building Stability

Since commercial spray foam insulation is seamless and monolithic, foam sprayed into the walls enhances overall building stability and reduces “rack and sheer.” The walls are the main structural support component of a building. In wood frame construction, the weight of the roof exerts a downward force known as compressive force, while winds and gusts from storms are known as lateral force.

These forces can distort walls with what is called a "shearing force". Building codes account for such forces and loads, however when walls are built to these minimum standards, symptoms such as creaking and shaking often occurs.

Atlanta Higher density closed cell commercial spray foam insulation inside your stud walls fully adheres and hardens to reinforce the structure. With this added rigidity, there will be less wall movement.

Commercial Spray Foam Insulation also can add structural strength to buildings. NAHB Research demonstrated commercial spray foam insulation filled walls could add from 75% to 200% racking strength to walls of OSB, plywood, light gauge metal, vinyl siding or gypsum board.

Racking Test

Shearing forces on a wall tend to distort the wall from its original shape as a rectangle into a parallelogram. To test a wall’s resistance to the shear forces imposed by wind loading, engineers use a "racking test." An 8 ft. x 8 ft. model wall is built and placed in a large frame. The base of the wall is secured to the frame and a horizontal (lateral) force is applied at one upper corner. The force is increased in 400 lb. increments until the wall structure fails.

Green Earth Services of Atlanta services the following cities: Atlanta, Buckhead, Buford, Dunwoody, Gainesville, Hamilton Mill, Lawrenceville, Marietta, Cumming, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Roswell, Sandy Springs, Smyrna, Suwanee, and Woodstock, Lilburn, Norcross, Powder Springs, Grayson, Sugar Shill, Snellville, Athens, Dacula, Kennesaw, Canton, Holly Springs, Acworth, Vinings and Huntsville, Alabama.