One more step in the direction of finishing the house. We had our house foamed, it's a castor bean oil (environmentally friendly and WAY better R value than traditional fiberglass insulation) that's heated and then mixed with something to make it foam. You can do open cell or closed cell. I really don't know all the technicalities, all I know is that it looked like a scifi movie's science experiment gone wrong. LOL! It pretty much oozed and bubbled everywhere it landed. The company did a pretty good job of cleaning up afterwards, but their tarp kind of broke on the way out the door, so there's way more to clean up now, but we'll get to it once the foam stops outgasing and it's cooler in there. The mixture is heated to cause the foaming reaction, so it needs to cool down, they said the outgasing would stop once it had fully cooled & cured. Its pretty amazing stuff!
We had them put a good thick layer in the crawlspace, walls and ceiling (upstairs roof), and a thin layer between the two floors to deaden upstairs foot traffic noise. We also had them spray foam our shed that houses our well, to keep it from freezing. It's pretty funky looking, especially since they didn't do any trimming of the foam after it cured like they did in the house...it looks like a freaky cave. LOL!
The last photo is of our shed enclosing our well. Until the house is finished I've had my washing machine installed for the last 3 years. Once in a while during the winter the line would freeze, so hopefully the new insulation in the well shed will keep that from happening.
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