Spray Foam Insulation keeps your Home Cooler during the Summer Months
Proper insulation also helps to maintain consistent temperatures indoors. During the summer, outside hot air seeps into your attic, heating your ceilings and the air inside your home, working your air condition. Attic insulation, open cell spray foam reduces reduces the temperature in your attic and thus the heat flow penetrating your interior home air. By reducing your home’s attic temperature and the passage of heat into your home, which will reduce the energy or air conditioning required to dissipate heat. In southern Louisiana, a ceiling insulation with an R-value of 26 is considered sufficient to reduce heat flow.
Open cell spray foam insulation, which is typically applied to roof decks and wall interiors, provides roughly R-3.7 per inch of insulation. Closed cell spray foam insulation, which is applied to sub-flooring, registers at R-6.2, one of the highest R-values available.
Sunlight Contractors of Slidell, New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Kenner are the highest rated spray foam and home insulation company in Louisiana and the Gulf South. For your next spray foam project, commercial or residential, choose Sunlight Contractors.