Hot Attic Spray Foam Smell

Homeowner james polk who recently hired sunlight contractors to install approximately 3000 square feet of spray polyurethane foam in his destrehan home describes his experience which is typical of a job done right.

Hot attic spray foam smell.

I had spray foam insulation put in my rim joists in my basement on august 29 2016. Turn your oms fan on. My face has been swelling since. Rafters were insulated with open cell spray foam to create a conditioned space since an air handler gas fired furnace are in the attic.

He couldn t smell the foam either. I have been to many various doctors now i m seeing a environmental doctor. When the oms fan is running it s designed to vacuum odors and lingering humidity from your attic expelling it into the atmosphere. However you usually can keep the bad smell out of your home.

The solution generally involves some combination of isolating the stinky attic air replacing attic air with indoor air ventilating your living space and aggressively filtering the air moving through. We opened the pull down attic stair no smell. The smell in the house was hardly noticeable and even in the attic it just smelled like a fresh coat of paint. Also that day cellulose was put in the attic.

I walked upstairs 2 story home with him no smell. You can t remove spray foam and you can t make stinky spray foam quit stinking. A attic guy thinks its the spray foam. The paint odor was very bad at first the owner was told the smell would subside but it hasn t in 2 years is especially strong in summer.

On a hot humid summer afternoon if by chance you get a whiff of spray foam smell while walking down the upstairs hall it s easy to manage. As i entered his home i could not smell our foam. As i questioned him he said bob i get a whiff of it.