Self storage spray foam insulation in Blackfalds is work an operator buys to protect what tenants have put in the units. The facilities here went up alongside the housing, which means they are relatively young and they have a specific profile.
A facility built at the same time as the town
These are not converted buildings. They were built as storage, which is an advantage: the layout is sensible, the drainage was designed rather than inherited, and the doors were new at the same time as the roofs. What they were not built with is any envelope at all beyond the steel, because a storage building is priced per square foot and insulation is the first thing out of the specification. So a Blackfalds operator has sound buildings that do nothing to moderate what is inside them.
What a growing town puts into storage
The tenant mix follows the housing. Households between properties, families whose house filled up before their storage needs did, and a steady flow of people moving into the town who need somewhere for a few months. That means household goods rather than equipment: furniture, mattresses, boxes of paper, photographs, electronics. Those are exactly the categories a building that swings between damp and dry damages, and they belong to people who will remember how it was handled.
Steel that was priced per square foot
It is worth understanding what these buildings are, because it explains the behaviour. A storage building is a commodity structure sold on cost per unit of rentable area, so it is steel cladding on a light frame with a steel roof and nothing between the tenant and the weather except that sheet. On a clear night that roof loses heat to the sky, drops below the temperature of the air inside, and forms condensation on its underside which then falls onto whatever is stacked highest in the unit. Nothing about that is a defect. It is what the building was built to be, and it is why the roof is where the work goes on a Blackfalds site rather than the walls.
Doors and thresholds, which cost almost nothing
Before any roof work, the cheap items are worth doing. A drive-up door that no longer meets its threshold evenly is a permanent opening into the unit, and on a site where the buildings have settled slightly a proportion of them will be like that. Snow drifts against the row, packs at the threshold and melts inside, and the tenant reports water and assumes a leak. Correcting the doors first means the roof work afterwards is judged fairly, and it means an operator is not paying for insulation to compensate for a threshold that a morning's work would have fixed.
Self Storage Spray Foam Insulation Blackfalds: Common Questions
Why do fairly new storage buildings have no envelope? Built as storage, which is good, and built without an envelope, because that is the first thing cut.
Why do tenants report water on the floor? Usually snow that packed at the threshold and melted inside. Doors before roofs.
Where do we start? Doors and thresholds, then the roof deck over the rows holding household goods.
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