Why Insulate with RetroFoam™?

With walls accounting for minimally 35% of the total energy loss from your home, coupled with gas & electricity bills rising at a rate previously unheard of, it is small wonder that people are looking for ways to save money.

Older homes & businesses especially timber framed buildings until recently, have been classes as "hard to treat" and unfortunatley often suffer from either poorly fitted insulation or insulation of a poor quality. A consequence of this is that these homes & businesses have until now, incurred a severe cost penalty when upgrading their existing insulation products and often find that something as simple as wall insulation is turned into a major building project where existing walls, fittings and furnishings have to be stripped out and rebuilt once insulation is fitted.

Whatever your building materials may, be it vinyl, wood, brick, block, stone, Wythe cavities, foundations, outside walls or interior walls....inside or outside...we can do it all!

RetroFoam™ is designed specifically for insulating Existing wall cavities and is the number 1 product for retrofit insulation with a typical installation costing around 50% of comparable solutions.

Consider the total area of your outside walls and it’s not surprising that the heat loss through the walls in a typical house is greater than through the windows and floors combined. Even if you have your ceiling insulated, the heat inside your home simply finds the next easiest exit to escape.

RetroFoam™ home insulation is a very effective way to prevent large amounts of heat loss, and can be installed into most existing walls, including weatherside, stucco, brick veneer and foundation walls if there is an accessible cavity.

The installation can take place from either the outside (through the exterior cladding) or inside (through the drywall or similar), of the house, and will usually be completed within one to two days, with very little disruption to the household.

RetroFoam™ is a plastic foam containing millions of tiny air cells. Within minutes of injecting the liquid foam into the wall cavity, it sets to form a firm, resilient filling, containing millions of tiny bubbles of still air. These act like pockets of air trapped between the feathers of a duck, which minimizes air circulation within the wall cavity, preventing airflow and heat loss.

Once installed, RetroFoam™ home insulation will go on working for decades and is an extremely safe product to introduce into your walls.

The expanding agent in RetroFoam™ is compressed air. RetroFoam™ is fully expanded prior to entering your walls. RetroFoam™ meets government guidelines, does not create a fire hazard, and has high R-value. Retrofoam becomes a lightweight solid unit of insulation inside the voids it fills helping keep out rodents and air movement unlike loose-fill products which are not solid units.

Loose-fill can be shifted by compaction and/or rodent nest building allowing for increased levels of air movement.

If at any stage you need to carry out wall alterations, the solid customized blocks of foam can be easily removed while work is in progress and simply replaced on completion. If rewiring is needed, wires can be pushed through the rigid foam, or the foam can be cut if necessary.

Once installed you will have a a warm, dry home which will become more comfortable, warmer in winter, cooler in summer with the added bonus of achieving significant savings on utility costs.