Spray foam insulation in Wetaskiwin

Wetaskiwin is a central Alberta city on the corridor south of Edmonton, with a long-standing retail and automotive trade presence and farming country around it. Its housing stock is largely pre-1991.

Showroom and service buildings

Retail-and-service buildings have an insulation problem that pure warehousing does not: part of the building has to be comfortable for customers, and part of it is a working bay with a large door.

Those two halves fight each other.

The showroom or office side needs stable, comfortable temperature. The service side opens a big door repeatedly through the day and dumps its heated air every time. If they share an envelope and a heating system, the comfortable half is constantly being pulled down by the working half.

The productive approach is usually to treat the boundary between them as a real boundary - sealing and insulating the internal wall and ceiling between the customer-facing space and the bay - rather than trying to condition the whole building to suit the fussiest part of it. That is almost always cheaper and it works better.

Then seal the bay's own envelope so it recovers quickly between door cycles. Recovery speed is the achievable goal in any building with a large opening; zero loss is not. See commercial spray foam and office and retail.

Storage and yard buildings

Vehicle and equipment storage brings the standard steel-building issue - warm moist air condensing on a cold deck and dripping onto stock. On anything with a paint finish or upholstery, that matters more than usual. See stopping condensation in a metal building and preventing rust.

Farm buildings

Mixed farming around Wetaskiwin brings shops, machine sheds and quonsets, with the same condensation question. See agricultural spray foam.

Homes

Central Alberta gives long cold spells with moderate wind, so heat loss runs more on conduction and the stack effect than on wind pressure. The attic and the basement are two ends of one system - sealing only the top can make the draught at floor level more obvious.

Order that works: attic penetrations first, then the rim joist, then the basement or crawl space if the floors are cold. See cold floors.

What we do

We are a referral service. We do not install. We connect you with vetted installers - certification, insurance and WCB standing checked.

No price without a site visit. Get a quote, and for a commercial building tell us which parts need to be comfortable and which are working space.