Foam It Green spray foam is an efficient system for insulating your home, and it presents a number of advantages over more traditional insulation materials. For one, it is an extremely efficient insulating material with an R-value of 7 per inch.

Why is R-value so important? R-value is the measure of a material’s ability to maintain the internal temperature of your home, and represents the material’s effectiveness in blocking heat. The R-value represents the amount of heat or energy the material can block, measured against the space of the material. The higher the R-value, the better. With Foam It Green spray foam, the R-value is double that of fiberglass or cellulose at a whopping 7 per inch, making it a highly effective method of insulation.

Foam It Green provides efficiency through a tight air seal to block air flow and transference of conditioned air out of your home. By keeping the internal temperature steady, you use less energy heating or cooling the air. No other form of insulation provides a tight air seal.

The two most important things to stop your home from losing energy are to stop conduction and convection. By having the highest R-value, Foam It Green slows down conduction more than other forms of insulation (the transference of heat through an object). By providing the tight air seal, Foam It Green STOPS convection (the transference of heat via air movement).

Foam It Green also stops water transfer, which batts cannot do. Moisture rots your home. Moldy fiberglass can seriously harm your family’s respiratory health. The only way to stop water infiltration is to use closed cell Foam It Green.

Foam it Green also never sags or settles, so it never loses its effectiveness at stopping air flow. Homes that were foamed in the 80’s are still snug as a bug. While Foam It Green has continued to improve and enhance the materials used in the making and spraying of the foam, the end result will still be there for your children’s children. It is a solution that allows you not to have to continually redo your insulation. Isn’t it nice to be able to set it and forget it?

While installing spray foam insulation in your home can be more expensive upfront than fiberglass batt, it is a more cost-efficient long-term solution to insulation needs. Not only does it eliminate some of the costs associated with installing new insulation over and over again, but it also gives you highly efficient insulation for years to come that saves you hundreds on energy bills.

Some people keep them short and sweet:

“WE LOVE IT!! It’s installed and it’s fabulous!! I’d like to refer to some friends.”
Or
“I finally had a chance to use your spray foam insulation. Wonderful product, easy application! “

Others tell us Foam it Green is now in a fishing shack, a parade float, a motor home, or a medical room for miniature horses. It’s really cool to see how you’re using it for what you need.
Unusual uses aside, the themes that keep coming through are the support, the information, and the results you see when the project is done. We love to hear that! Thank you for sharing.

The submissions this quarter are especially demanding and it took us longer than ever to sort through. However, someone must rise above. And it is…
Kevin K. in South Carolina. Why? Because as a contractor, he was able to give his customer exactly what they wanted AND saved them money in the process. His team was able to do the job in 2 days, and it didn’t hold up other areas of the house under construction (whereas a rig would require everyone to vacate for 24 hours after spraying). This also helped him control quality and the budget!
He’s getting $250, plain and simple.

Drop by to see some of the competition and the winning entry at:
https://www.sprayfoamdirect.com/benefits/testimonials.php

The Testimonial Contest is running again through September, so you’re welcome to re-enter, or just enter for the first time. There are many quick and easy ways to submit your testimonial.

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You can fill out our online form. http://www.sprayfoamdirect.com/about/testimonial_contest.php

Please help us know what you like about our business so that other customers like you can get many of the same benefits you enjoy.

The bill will make available nearly $6 Billion in incentive rebates to homeowners for improving the energy efficiency of an existing homes. Many of the incentives in the bill will be earmarked for performance based improvements.

There are two paths to getting money back from this tax incentive.

1. The SILVER STAR prescriptive path provides a near-term incentive for specific energy saving investments that is simple to administer and easily introduced into the existing marketplace. Homeowners receive between $1,000 and $1,500 for each measure installed in the home, or $250 per appliance, with a benefit not exceeding $3,000 or at least 50% of total project costs (whichever is less). Covered measures include air sealing; attic, wall, and crawl space insulation; duct sealing or replacement; and replacement of existing windows and doors, furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, water heaters and appliances with high-efficiency models.

The legislation will utilize existing standards for qualifying products at a level sufficient to significantly increase consumer demand for highly energy efficient building materials and mechanical systems. SILVER STAR improvements may be implemented by any appropriately licensed and insured contractor, but all participating contractors will receive information about opportunities for accreditation and training programs.

2. The GOLD STAR performance path offers an incentive to households that choose to conduct a comprehensive energy audit and then implement a variety of measures that are designed together to provide greater total returns in energy savings. This performance path represents the future of home efficiency: state-of-the-art building science is used to identify problems, present solutions and deliver verifiable energy savings, generating confidence among homeowners and investors alike. This technology-neutral approach is based on performance, not specific products, so market forces will direct funds to solutions that achieve the best results.

A certified professional with accreditation from the Building Performance Institute (BPI), the Residential Energy Services Network (RESNET) or an approved equivalent conducts an energy audit before work begins, and a test-out when the performance retrofit is complete. Consumers receive $3,000 for modeled savings of 20%, plus an additional $1,000 incentive for each additional 5% of modeled energy savings, with incentives not to exceed 50% of project costs. Contractors implementing the GOLD STAR performance path must be BPI accredited.

Using Foam It Green spray foam insulation to seal your home and increase its energy efficiency is valuable even without this great incentive. But if the bill passes, it makes it extra easy to choose the best insulation for your home. Go to www.SprayFoamDirect.com today to finish up or get started on your next insulating project!

To learn more about how this tax incentive can put money in your pocket, visit the bill in its entirety at www.homestarcoalition.org/HOME_STAR_Overview.pdf

With Foam It Green, you can insulate your pool or spa. One Foam It 602 will do 2 coats around two 300 gallon shells. Here’s a tip: wrap valves and fittings with kitchen plastic wrap because the foam will not bond to it. After Foam It Green has cured, you can remove the plastic wrap. This way, you have continued access for maintenance.

Another summertime passion for many is boating. Use Foam It Green for flotation. You can replace flotation foam in the hull cavity by removing the deck and spraying Foam It Green between the stringers. Once it’s cured, level the foam and replace the decking. You can also use Foam It Green to securing the gas tank, or insulating the fish holds, bait boxes, and coolers.

Finally, it’s coming up on the 4th of July. Parades in every town! Be the hit of your hometown parade with a float made from Foam It Green. Someone made a float last year. The Incredible Hulk was the theme, and it was the hit of the show and a highlight in the town’s paper. Be a star with Foam It Green! Build the foundation, spray to build up the form. Let it set, and then you can carve, sand and paint your way to victory!

Want to make a paint ball battle field in your backyard? It’s Easy Peasy with some chicken wire and Foam It Green. Want to soften curves on wood or concrete? Foam It Green’s another way to soften the hit, so dodging incoming paint balls won’t cause great pain.

One series is focusing on all the parts to a Deep Energy Retrofit, and includes Foam It Green spray foam insulation in a major way! It’s called Energy Answers and you can find it at http://www.hgtvpro.com/hpro/pac_ctnt/text/0,2595,HPRO_20196_97779,00.html

Jeff Wilson took on the project in 2009, showing hands on use of real energy saving techniques in his own home in Ohio. He added cool technology that allows him to create his own energy, but more importantly and first, he fixed the leaks in his home that were forcing him to need more energy than required.

“Why would you pile five solar panels on a house to create all the energy that you are already wasting?” Wilson asks. “Why wouldn’t you first try to save the energy that is going out of the windows and seeping out of the walls? Why wouldn’t you fix what’s broken first and then employ the high-tech?”

Follow along with Jeff as he walks you through every step of his home’s Deep Energy Retrofit today and for the coming weeks. You’ll see how Foam It Green can help you accomplish many of the tasks it helped Jeff with. He’ll help you use what you have more efficiently because it’s far cheaper than generating more energy for your home, or starting over with a complete rebuild.

There are other questions to ask yourself, too. For instance, how much do you love your shingle warranty? Do you have something on the floor of your attic already? Do you have canned lighting? What does local code allow?
The combination of answers is what determines the right product and the right placement in your attic.

For instance, the best way to separate the home from the exterior is to seal the floor of the attic. This is most popular with anyone that has to heat during the winter and doesn’t wish to heat their attic.

Other benefits of this are:
1) it’s a cheaper project
2) it allows for the vented attic
3) it’s easier and
4) you get to keep your shingle warranty.

Spraying the floor of your attic is cheaper and easier because you only need to put down 1 inch of Foam It Green to get the tight air seal between the house and attic. Then you can build up your R-value with a cheaper form of insulation.

Guardian Energy Technologies thinks of everything. If you have canned lighting that needs protecting, we have a tool to help you- covers that protect your cans from getting insulation too close. It’s a lot easier than building a drywall box for each can!

When you want to or need to spray the underside of your roof deck, more pieces of the puzzle need to be solved for. Remember, your house is a symphony and when even 2 instruments are playing off from each other, you can tell- it just doesn’t work. You need to keep the following in mind to make sure an unvented attic works properly.

1) Consider is what’s currently dumping into your attic. Do you have kitchen and bathroom vents that need to be directed all the way out?

2) Ask yourself if anything needs to breathe. These days, air conditioning air handlers do not need fresh intake or airflow in the attic, but if yours does, sealing the attic won’t be good.

3) Read what your shingle warranty says. Most brands void their warranties when insulation is directly against the roof deck. That means, you need to do the extra step of adding baffles before spraying, keeping the foam away from the roof deck. One bonus to this is that you keep a drainage plane in case you get a roof leak. That means, you can fix the roof without ever touching the insulation inside- it’s a roof under a roof. The downside is that doing this means extra money, an extra step, and reduces the amount of room you have for Foam It Green to build up your R-value.

4) Cost is important, and this route is more expensive. The floor of the attic only requires 1 inch for a tight air seal. When you are spraying overhead, you need to build up your R-value, so that requires 2-3 inches of Foam It Green. Plus, with the added square footage of the pitch, it’s more expensive to insulate this way.

When you spray the underside of the roof, you are also sealing off the soffit and ridge vents. The #1 reason to use spray foam like Foam It Green is to get the tight air seal. So, by doing this project, you are creating a non-vented attic.

Some customers opt for (or code requires) open cell foam. Foam It Green exclusively offers open cell class 1 (ASTM E84 fire rated) anti microbial now, too! So, whether you need/want open or closed cell, we have both options ready for you.

Your code may also require a 15 minute fire barrier over your foam. Guardian Energy Technologies has a solution for that too! We now offer 15 min fire barrier paint! (Check your code listings to see if this type of product is allowed in your home)

Once you have given the questions above some thought, give us a call toll free at 800-516-0949. Because the exact application for your home requires putting this all together to create your personal plan, we’re standing by to help you do the right thing for your home. We’ve got the tools and know-how to help you save money, get professional results, and accomplish the biggest energy saving project in your home!