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What you don’t see in your walls can be helping you or harming you. If you have Foam It Green in your walls, you don’t see the foam, but you also don’t see the energy bills. When you have open celled foam, fiberglass or cellulose in your walls, you may have a moisture issue, which [...]

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Happy Earth Day! Earth Day is like Valentine’s Day to Guardian Energy Technologies.  While we celebrate today, we are green 365 days of the year, just like you love your Valentine every day of the year. So whether you purchase your kits today or another day, know that with Foam It Green you not only [...]

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After the attic, the most significant areas of heat loss or gain are the walls of your home. Insulated walls are what make your home feel comfortable. In 2 story homes, walls equal more than twice the area of your attic.   If you are insulating your attic and not your walls, the attic insulation will not be as [...]

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A: While in a pinch, you can swap gun/hose assemblies from one tank set to another, it is not recommended for regular use.  Foam It Green provides a fresh hose and gun assembly with each kit to keep your project flowing right. The A Chemical crystalizes when it hits oxygen, so swapping lines can lead [...]

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Sometimes, when you are spraying foam overhead, a light mist of foam particles can drop onto your goggles.  Fight the urge to take off your goggles.  Just stop, wipe them, and go back to spraying. Spraying without goggles is a sure fire way to get that mist in your eyes and it burns.  We’re not [...]

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Foam It Green is a fantastic green building material, but it’s not the ONLY one!  You may have other projects that you need to do around your home that don’t require Foam It Green Spray Foam Insulation Kits.  If so, check out www.GreenMakerSupply.com, a neighbor Chicago based company that supplies energy intelligent, environmentally sensitive and healthy building [...]

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When you see videos of Icynene, it looks impressive.  The contractor blasts in one inch (messy process) and it bubbles up over the studs so they have to go back and shave it down.  In comparison, Foam It Green Closed Cell Polyurethane Foam kits go on lightly like paint and cure to only 1 inch.  [...]

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Yes, the foam is actually green.  A light shade of green in case you’d like to paint over the foam, with a light color, you don’t need primer or two coats of paint.  The reason why we made the color of the foam green is to help first time users get great foam on their [...]

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Most do-it-yourselfers are not doing their foaming projects between 9-5 Monday through Friday.  So, why would your foam support be only available then? We pride ourselves on having thorough instructions but sometimes you need more support…like if you accidentally have a spill or get foam on a kitchen appliance or put the hose on a [...]

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Typically, when people say Flash and Batt, they mean an inch of Foam It Green Polyurethane Spray Foam followed by filling the rest of the cavity with fiberglass batt.  The problem is, many people are trying to get away from fiberglass batting, which is why they know about Foam It Green in the first place. [...]

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