Spray Foam Insulation in Martinsville, IN

Spray foam insulation in Martinsville goes into some of the oldest housing in the area. Wikipedia says the town was founded in 1822, and its 1859 Morgan County Courthouse is one of the few pre-Civil War courthouses still standing in Indiana. From 1888 to 1968, visitors came to Martinsville's sanitaria for artesian mineral water, and the town's older neighborhoods date from those years.

Stable town, older homes

Population has stayed between about 11,300 and 11,900 since 1980, and the 2020 census counted 5,281 housing units, 7.5% vacant. With little new building, most homes are decades old. They tend to have thin attics, walls with little or no insulation, and crawl spaces or basements with bare rim joists.

Low elevation

Martinsville sits at about 604 feet, among the lowest towns in the area, near the White River. Crawl spaces and basements on low ground need a moisture check before insulating. When they are dry, a sealed vapor barrier and closed-cell foam on the walls and rim joist keep them that way and warm the floors above.

Walls and attics in older houses

In Martinsville's older neighborhoods, many homes have plaster walls with little insulation inside. Dense-packing cellulose fills those walls through small holes without tearing out plaster. In the attic, we seal the gaps around chimneys, wiring and plumbing first and then add blown insulation to depth. The Department of Energy suggests R-60 for an empty attic in this zone.

Farms and outbuildings

The land around Martinsville is rolling and wooded with farms in between. Pole barns, shops and detached garages are common, and closed-cell foam is how we stop steel from dripping and keep a shop usable through the winter. Get a free estimate