Spray foam insulation in Taber

Taber sits in the irrigated south-east, in one of the most intensively farmed districts in Alberta. About 71% of dwellings here were built before 1991.

The work that makes Taber different is crop storage.

Storage is a controlled environment, not a warm room

A building holding harvested produce is not trying to be comfortable. It is trying to hold a specific, narrow range of temperature and humidity for months, often while the outside temperature swings from well above freezing to well below.

That changes what matters about the envelope.

Continuity beats thickness. A gap in an otherwise good assembly is where the storage loses control - not gradually across the whole roof, but concentrated at that spot. The result is a cold or warm patch, and condensation forming exactly where you least want it.

Humidity control is half the job. Stored produce respires and gives off moisture. That moisture has to be managed rather than allowed to migrate into the assembly, condense against cold steel, and drip back down onto the stack.

Thermal bridges show up as wet spots. Every steel purlin or fastener that passes from cold outside to warm inside is a small cold surface. In a humid storage building those are where condensation appears first, and where product spoils first.

A continuous, adhered air and vapour seal against the deck addresses all three at once, which is why closed-cell foam is the usual answer for storage rather than a batt system. See cold storage insulation and stopping condensation in a metal building.

If you are insulating storage, tell us what is stored, what range it has to hold, and whether the building is actively ventilated. Those three answers change the specification, not just the quantity.

Food processing buildings

Processing space carries its own requirements: heavy moisture loads in wash and wet areas, and rules about what surfaces are acceptable in a food-handling environment.

That last point affects what has to cover the foam and where. Raise it before the quote rather than after. See thermal barrier vs ignition barrier and commercial spray foam.

Irrigation farm buildings

Intensive irrigated agriculture means a lot of equipment and a lot of buildings to house it - shops, machine sheds, and steel storage. The recurring failure across all of them is the same: warm moist interior air reaching a cold deck.

See agricultural spray foam, machine sheds, and preventing rust in a steel building.

Houses

Southern Alberta wind plus a pre-1991 house gives the familiar list: rim joist, attic penetrations, and the junctions where additions meet the original building.

Attic sealing before depth, then the rim joist, then the basement if floors run cold.

What we do

We are a referral service. We do not install. We connect you with vetted installers and check certification, insurance and WCB standing before an introduction.

No price without seeing the building - a storage building in particular has to be assessed, not estimated from a floor area. Get a quote.