The idea of extreme insulation is about performance in the widest variety of conditions. Extremely hot, extremely cold, extremely wet, etc. For those difficult conditions, EARTHANE foam generally works the best from -300 degrees to + 300 degrees give or take a bit. For flotation in water and in keeping water out of your building when it rains, EARTHANE foam works. If you need to keep apples, potatoes of other fruits and vegetables fresh in a high humidity environment, urethane foam works best. If you want to add strength to a composite or a wall structure, the dimensional stability of EARTHANE foam works. If you want to adhere to and seal a surface, EARTHANE foam works best. The point is, sprayed EARTHANE foam is more than insulation. It is like glue that foams up and adheres to whatever it is sprayed on and forms a rigid, dense material that resists the flow of heat and moisture. It penetrates and seals cracks and holes by expanding 30 times the amount of liquid sprayed on.
We have insulated apple storage rooms that run at 38 degrees and nearly 100% humidity, potato storage rooms where the heat and moisture generated by the potatoes builds to 100% humidity and only the foam keeps the moisture from condensing on the steel building even in the cold winters of Maine. In controlled atmosphere rooms the foam provides the air seal that allows the operators to remove the oxygen from the air to preserve the fruit. In all these applications, and some are over 30 years old, the foam is completely dry and still providing the necessary insulation it was intended to provide. These applications are in wood buildings, metal buildings, concrete block buildings and all sorts of combinations. We have filled porous brick walls to seal out moisture and in places the foam penetrated so well it formed tiny bubbles of plastic on the surface of the mortar joint and in some places penetrated all the way through the brick.
On roofs, EARTHANE provides a dense, smooth, seamless surface over all substrates, ready for the application of an elastomeric coating system. EARTHANE seals all penetrations, can fill ponded areas for better drainage and dramatically reduce building movement, heat loss and gain. Over the years, we have insulated pipes, tanks and ducts, hot and cold (some cryogenic) above ground and below, all with urethane foam and it has performed.
So in these days of extreme energy costs and extreme conditions you need extreme insulation, EARTHANE. |