Spray Foam Insulation in Sharonville, OH

Spray foam insulation in Sharonville usually means a mid-century house. ACS data on Point2Homes puts about 13.6% of the city's housing in the 1950s and 22.6% in the 1960s, with a median year built of 1974. Wikipedia records the population rising from 3,890 in 1960 to 11,393 in 1970, the same years Ford's transmission plant, opened in 1958, was hiring.

What 1960s houses need

Attics from that era usually have a few inches of insulation at most, and the top plates, wiring holes and plumbing stacks were never sealed. Walls may hold a thin batt. Basements and crawl spaces have bare rim joists. In most of these houses the order is attic sealing and blown-in to depth, then rim joist foam, then walls if they are empty.

Rentals and landlords

About 42.9% of Sharonville's occupied homes are rented, according to the same ACS data. For a landlord, insulation and air sealing are partly about comfort complaints and partly about reducing the heating and cooling loads that tenants pay for. We can work in occupied rentals and schedule around tenants.

Two counties, two zones

Sharonville lies mostly in Hamilton County, with a portion in Butler County. That matters a little for insulation: Ohio's residential energy code places Hamilton County in Climate Zone 4A and Butler County in Zone 5A. Ceiling and wall targets are the same in both, but the floor target over unheated space is R-19 in Zone 4A and R-30 in Zone 5A. We confirm which side of the line your house is on if you are building or remodeling.

Ranches and slabs

Some Sharonville houses sit on slabs or crawl spaces rather than basements. A slab ranch has no rim joist to foam, so the attic and walls carry the job. A crawl space ranch benefits from closing the crawl space and insulating its walls.

Attic access in older ranches

Many 1950s and 1960s ranches have a small hatch in a hallway or closet ceiling as the only way into the attic. We work through it where we can and protect the room below. If the hatch is too small for safe work or for the hose, we explain the options before the job.

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