VERSI-FOAM AND MY NEW HOUSE
My husband and I recently built a house in northern Wisconsin. Our builder just started working with an Energy Star consultant, and to get an idea of the entire “Energy Star” qualifications, the builder hired this consultant to certify our house.
Needless to say, our house is foam insulated. However, it is MOSTLY foam insulated. There were areas we could not easily get to, so the only parts that ARE foam insulated are all the exterior walls, the great room cathedral ceiling, all the rim joists and around some doors and windows in a partially exposed basement. There is fiberglass batt in the cathedral ceiling above the master bedroom, and there is blown in fiberglass above the flat ceiling over the hallway, foyer, guest bedroom, office, guest bath and laundry room.
The house was closed up and air pumped into it, and measurements were taken to note air leakage. To get Energy Star certification, there was a maximum allowed leakage of 1450 CFM. Our house measured a leakage of 400 CFM.
Now that’s sealed!!!!
Debbie Buss (Sales/Technical Representative, RHH Foam Systems Inc.)