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Building your dream home? Congratulations! Allow our dedicated team to help you protect your life-long investment. We often, are involved in the build process, from the beginning – consulting architects with respect to building science and design; general and framing contractors; as well as HVAC and electrical trades, to help ensure the best course of action to allow Sentinel Spray Foam to tightly seal the building envelope.
Adept builders have become more proficient in the importance of insulation… but there was a time when insulation was usually one of the afterthoughts in homeowners’ and contractors’ construction budget. Why? Lack of knowledge? Short-sided budget constraints? It could be a combination of both, or many other reasons… but here’s some insight as to the long-term AND short-term benefits of your decision to let Sentinel Spray Foam help you tightly seal your building envelope: SPF will…
…last as long as your home will. (other forms of insulation will sag and deteriorate over time)
…air seal to prevent air and moisture leakage, improve air quality, increase comfort level, keep dust and pollen out, prevent the infiltration of harmful gases,
…allow a reduction in the size of the HVAC system needed to heat and cool your home by as much as 50% (that’s an immediate savings of $3,500+labor)
…extends the life of your HVAC system. (your system won’t have to run as hard, as long, or as often)
…greatly reduce your monthly energy costs.
…improves racking strength (strengthen your structure by up to 300%)
New Construction
Spray polyurethane foam (SPF) is used to guard residential, commercial, and industrial structures against the elements literally from the “Ground Up”. SPF can fully insulate a home or building, as well as seal it from air and moisture infiltration, resulting in a more efficient, healthy, and resilient structure with lower energy consumption, and significantly lower utility bills. Closed cell foam (ccSPF) can also strengthen the walls and roof of a home or building by up to 300%, as well as protect it from airborne particulates and mold. Our Team, at Sentinel Spray Foam, work with homeowners, builders, and community developers… along with their architect, to help ensure the best course of action to allow Sentinel Spray Foam to tightly seal the building envelope – from the ground up.
“Seal tight; Ventilate right!” is a SPF industry mantra. Aside from fiberglass batts essentially seen as filters (batts do not STOP the flow of air exchange) and does very little for energy efficiency, SPF installed in your home or building will also allow you to reduce (Yes!, Downsize) the HVAC unit you need by up to 50% – resulting in savings on the front end of your build, as well as monthly savings for the life of that structure.
Under-Slab Insulation
The practice of applying closed cell spray polyurethane foam (ccSPF) before pouring the slab, in the new construction process, is not common. BUT there is a growing contingent amongst savvy homeowners and builders alike. There are a number of benefits to insulating under the slab. None more prevalent than ccSPF being the monolithic barrier, protecting the structure from moisture and heat loss through your foundation. Concrete is moisture permeable, and with as little as 2” of ccSPF applied over crushed stone, insulating under the slab offers many more benefits in guarding against the elements. It offers a yield of R-14 along with its moisture retardant properties and insulating with ccSPF below the slab also offers a continuous barrier (no joints; no seams) preventing vapor intrusion and blocking especially harmful vapors, such as radon.
Sentinel Spray Foam (SsPF) can help save time on your project as well. While detailing polyethylene sheeting can take a couple days or more, (expending time and labor costs) our team can apply a monolithic barrier under your slab in just a few hours. Call us for a free consultation. Let’s talk more about your under-slab insulation…
Waterproofing
Polyurea is a remarkable coating, lining, and joint sealant technology. Polyurea coatings are 100 percent solids materials formed by the reaction between an isocyanate, which can also be aromatic or aliphatic, and an amine resin. Polyurea coatings are easy to apply, and they have a rapid-curing reaction that is not affected by moisture or temperature, unlike other coatings. Polyurea can smoothly adhere to virtually any roof substrate and bolster the roofline along the way.
Polyurea protective coatings are commonly used for structural enhancement, corrosion protection, waterproofing, structural enhancement, as well as abrasion, chemical, environmental, and atmospheric resistance.
For decades, traditional materials such as paint, epoxy, fiberglass, and vinyl esters have all been used to perform these various types of protective coating applications.
Polyurea coating technology is not new. In fact, it has been around and in use for almost three decades now. Polyurea is newer and more advanced than these traditional coating systems, and offers many advantages to the owner, specifier, and contractor.
These advantages come mainly in the form of impressive achievable physical properties, and its fast-set, return-to-service characteristics. It can also be applied over a variety of different substrates (concrete, metals, wood, and more) in a wide range of temperature and humidity environments. However, like all protective coatings, using polyurea is no excuse to neglect proper surface preparation and quality control testing during application.
Polyurea’s major benefit is its ability to cure and set rapidly. It can typically return an area to service many times faster than traditional coatings, allowing the owner to put a facility back in use without days or weeks of revenue losing down-time. Downtime for maintenance and coatings on water tanks, wastewater clarifiers, parking garages, and chemical storage tanks costs the facility owner a great deal of money since these areas must be taken out of service while other coatings are applied and drying.
Most industrial use polyureas are spray-applied, so it is fast to apply and accurately proportioned and mixed. This application style allows for virtually any mil thickness to be applied in one or multiple passes. Additional characteristics such as slip resistant additives and surface textures can also be incorporated, UV stable colors can be achieved, and even NSF potable water approved systems are also possible with polyurea.
Almost no coating can compare to polyurea when it comes to attainable physical properties. Polyureas can be formulated to achieve a tremendous range of properties — from high elongation to superior tensile strength to hard or soft, all based on how the material is formulated and correctly applied.
In addition to its different applications, protective coatings and linings also have tremendous advantages over conventional materials for joint fill and caulk applications due to their fast set nature, high elongation and durability/abrasion characteristics. Polyurea can be molded and shaped by spraying it into molds. Similarly, polyurea is also used as hard coat protective shell over expanded polystyrene (EPS) for architectural molded fascia applications.
In addition to spray foam application services, we at Sentinel Spray Foam may be able to help you find the perfect polyurea application for your project.