Ceiling spray foam insulation in Olds is for the parts of a house with no attic above them: an addition with a low-slope roof, a vaulted room, the link between two roof levels on a house that has been extended.
The back room that became the cheapest bedroom
In a house let by the room, the addition with the shallow roof over it is the room that goes for the lowest rent, and everybody understands why without anybody explaining it. It is cold, it is slow to warm and it stays that way whatever the heating does, because the assembly above it is a few inches deep. On an Olds rental that room is a permanent discount, and treating it is one of the few envelope jobs that changes what a house earns rather than only what it costs to run.
Why the heating cannot rescue a shallow roof
There is no attic above these rooms, so there is no space to add material and no route to reach the plane from above without taking off roofing. The assembly has what it has. That is why the room does not respond to a bigger register or a portable heater, and why the honest answer to a landlord asking whether more heat would fix it is no, and here is what would.
The flashing that four different people have repaired
The junction where a low addition roof meets the taller original wall is the part that leaks, and on a house of this age it has been patched by a succession of people who each solved it their own way. What is there now is layers of different approaches sitting on top of each other, and none of them can be assessed from the ground. That junction is where an Olds survey starts and where the money goes, because the middle of the roof is almost always the sound part.
Reached from above or from below, and the timing decides
How the assembly is opened drives the cost. From above means taking off roofing, which suits a house due a new roof anyway. From below means taking down a ceiling and reinstating it, which suits a room being redecorated between tenancies. On a let property the second is usually the practical one, because the turnover between tenants is the only window when a room can be out of use, and timing this work to land in it is the single biggest saving available.
Ceiling Spray Foam Insulation Olds: Common Questions
Why is the back room always cold and letting for less? If it has a shallow roof and no attic above, that is the assembly rather than the heating.
Would more heat fix it? No. There is no space to add material and the room gives back whatever it is given.
When should the work happen? Between tenancies, when the room can be out of use. That is the cheapest moment on a let house.
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