Spray Foam Insulation in Mansfield, OH

Spray foam insulation in Mansfield starts with the age of the housing. Point2Homes, summarizing American Community Survey data, counts 24.6% of the city's homes as built in 1939 or earlier and another 17.4% in the 1950s. Mansfield was founded in 1808 on a fork of the Mohican River and grew into a factory town on four railroads, and the houses from that growth were built with open wall cavities and little or no attic insulation.

Elevation and weather

Downtown sits at about 1,240 feet, among the highest of Ohio's cities, and the airport is higher still at 1,293 feet. The Wikipedia climate summary lists 49.2 inches of snow a season and about five days a year at or below zero, with a record low of -22F. Wind and cold find every leak in an old house up here.

What we usually do

In the older neighborhoods around downtown, the first step is nearly always the rim joist and the attic: closed-cell foam on the rim, then sealing and blown-in insulation on the attic floor. Walls come next, dense-packed from outside if the plaster is sound. In the 1950s and 1960s ranches on the west and south sides, the attic is the main job.

Rentals and owners

About half of Mansfield's occupied homes are owner-occupied (50.5%), and many of the rest are rentals. Landlords call us to cut heating complaints and to deal with insulation damaged by leaks or pests between tenants.

A typical Mansfield estimate

On a two-story house near downtown, the visit usually starts in the attic, where we measure the old fill and look for stains around the chimney and vent stacks. Then we go to the basement to check the rim joist and sill, and finish with a look at the walls through an outlet or a small test hole. The quote that follows splits the job into stages so you can do the rim and attic this year and the walls later if you prefer.