Spray Foam Insulation in Priceville, AL

Spray Foam Insulation in Priceville mostly means newer houses. The town was settled in the 1820s and named for the Price family, but it stayed sparsely populated until Interstate 65 was built through the area, which set off the growth that continues today. Priceville sits on Decatur's eastern border along State Route 67, with the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge to the north.

Almost every home is lived in

The 2020 census counted 1,377 housing units in Priceville and only 3.5% of them vacant, one of the lowest vacancy rates in the area. These are year-round family homes running air conditioning hard from May through September.

Newer does not always mean well insulated

Houses built in the last few decades started with more insulation than older ones, but builders install to the minimum and the attic often holds the air handler and most of the ductwork. Over time attic insulation gets disturbed by service work, and the duct connections loosen. Bonus rooms over garages, common in this kind of subdivision, are another weak spot. We often see:

• Attic insulation that meets an old minimum but falls short of ENERGY STAR's R-49 recommendation for Zone 3
• Leaky ducts and return plenums in the attic
• Kneewalls and sloped ceilings around bonus rooms with gaps behind the insulation
• Garage ceilings under living space that leak air and heat

Options for an attic full of ducts

If most of the ductwork is in the attic, spraying open-cell foam under the roof deck can bring the whole attic inside the insulated space. The other route is sealing the ducts and the ceiling and adding loose fill. We price both when both make sense.

Garage ceilings and bonus room floors

In many Priceville two-stories, a bedroom or bonus room sits over the garage. The garage is not conditioned, so the floor of that room is effectively an outside wall laid flat. Batts installed there often sag or leave gaps at the rim, and air leaks in around them. Closed-cell foam sprayed against the subfloor from below, or dense-packed insulation behind the garage ceiling, usually ends cold floors in winter and warm floors in summer. HomeGuide's open-cell and closed-cell ranges are $1.50 to $3.50 and $3.00 to $5.00 per square foot; your written quote sets the actual price.

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