Builders and building scientists know that the greatest enemy of building efficiency is air infiltration and movement of air into insulation. The enemy of building longevity is hidden moisture condensation causing mildew and decay, not to mention the threat to health and comfort caused by these agents. PROFOAM foam insulation is the solution to these concerns of insulation contractors, builders, designers and building owners.

Imagine buildings where the walls work — no matter what. Stud frame buildings with cavities of PROFOAM foam insulation do work. Hot climate, cold climate, wet or dry, windy or calm, heating or air-conditioning.

While conventional fiber insulation in the right conditions may achieve thermal insulation with some success, it by its nature of using the air to insulate cannot isolate the air of the two climates. Air is mixed into the fiber with each change in outdoor temperature or wind condition — compromising thermal quality. Air contains moisture which when cooled, seeks to drop out on a surface as condensation. This occurs at building sheathing in the heating season and at the back of sheetrock in the air-conditioning season. Efforts to solve these problems have included caulking, house wraps and sealing tape, vapor retarders, venting and foam sheathing, together endeavoring to achieve what we really need — isolation.

PROFOAM using the Icynene insulation system, successfully achieves thermal isolation, air isolation and moisture isolation. Both the indoor and outdoor climate are effectively displaced out of the cavity permanently as the Icynene insulation system, is installed in its seamless fully adhered form.

Icynene insulation systems is the complete isolation of the interior climate from the exterior climate that describes how the cynene insulation system successfully deals with the complexities of building insulation operating in all climates. PROFOAM works by not allowing the interior climate (heating or cooling) to mix with the exterior climate (whether hot or cold). As seasons change and heating turns to air-conditioning, cynene insulation system,is unaffected by the reversal of moisture drives. It works both ways!

Go ahead — Picture this tough, high R-value, solid cellular plastic material spray installed between studs adhered to all it touches, being what insulation was meant to be.