Spray foam insulation day 2

Spray foam insulation day 2 by Great Northern Insulation. I am already informed that they are expected to get to first floor but definitely not going to finish at the end of the day. The next 3 week, they are booked solid. So I will likely need to finish the foam insulation in the new year.

Here’s the 2nd floor bedroom. You can see the steel beam pocket / rim joist all fully sprayed. The 2×2 strapping is filled and the 2×2 wood is slightly covered too to give that air barrier. If you keep up to date with building science, you will know that air movement actually degrades the thermal performance of a wall much more than you would think. So a good air barrier is a must if you want a good performance for your walls.

Here’s the roof in the bedroom area. Again just shy of 6″ of foam is applied to the flat roof. We will then fill the rest of the roof cavity with Roxul mineral wool batts to give it even higher insulation value.

This is in the 2nd floor bathroom.

The 2nd floor recreation area.

Here’s the ceiling in the open to below area. The wall that’s not spray foamed is the north wall.

Here’s another picture in the same area but looking at the north wall. The steel beam pocket / rim joist ares is spray foamed because steel is not combustible. But the wood wall is not sprayed. We will fill it with Roxul mineral wool board and batts later.

A closer look at the steel beam and you can see the entire pocket is filled with foam insulation. This is to reduce the amount of heat transfer the steel beams will allow.

On the 1st floor, the kitchen / family room’s east side wall and the south side wall is done.

More wall that’s completed in the kitchen.

The 1st floor powder room is also completed. Here you can see a few area where I have very little access. Like the one with cut outs. They have filled the entire cavity with foam.

In the front entrance, I cut open the floor to allow them access to the rim joist that was covered by the HVAC duct. However, they didn’t have time to get to the basement yet. But at least whey they come to spray foam the basement, it will be all ready for them.

So I have a little bit left on the 1st floor, and I have the entire basement as well as a few horizontal interior beam pockets that still have to be completed. Hopefully I can be scheduled sooner than later to get this done.

In the mean time, I will try to get some more insulation work done. On the wall, we will fill it with Roxul R22 mineral wool batts. Then the wall will be strapped out by another 1.5″ and we will fill that with Roxul mineral wool boards. So my typical wall is expected to have R10 from the spray foam, R22 from the Roxul batts and R6 from the Roxul board. Making it around R40 without taking consideration of the insulation from the EIFS system.