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Fifteen years of homes, cottages, garages, shops and commercial buildings across Barrie and Simcoe County — photographed on site, mid-job.

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Insulation is the one trade nobody sees when the job is finished — it is behind the drywall, above the ceiling and under the floor. So here is what it looks like while it is going in, across fifteen years of homes, cottages, garages, shops and commercial buildings around Barrie and Simcoe County.

Featured

Two jobs worth a closer look

The buildings where the insulation decisions actually mattered.

Open kitchen and great room with a stone wall, cathedral ceiling and exposed beams — Finished kitchen and great room under a cathedral ceiling with exposed beams

Featured project

Custom home — cathedral ceilings, stone great room and a wine cellar

A large custom build with the details that make insulation difficult and make it matter: double-height stone walls, exposed beams, a cathedral ceiling with no depth to spare, walls of glass onto the pool deck, and a climate-controlled wine cellar that has to hold its temperature and humidity year-round.

Rooms like these are why we do not quote one product for a whole house. A cathedral ceiling has a fixed rafter depth and no room for a batt thick enough to reach code, so it needs R-value per inch. A wine room needs an airtight, vapour-controlled envelope or it will never hold its conditions. The big glazed walls put cold surfaces right beside living space, so every framing detail around them has to be sealed.

NEEDS: confirm the town, the builder, the year and which products went where on this job — we have the photos from your Instagram but no job details

Building type: Custom home
Location: NEEDS: town
Products used: NEEDS: confirm which products were used on this job
Year: Photos posted September 2022

Great room with a full-height stone fireplace wall and sliding glass doors to a pool deck — The great room — a full-height stone fireplace wall and glass onto the pool deck

Custom curved wine cellar with backlit racking behind a glass wall — The climate-controlled wine cellar — curved racking, and an envelope that has to hold its conditions

Two-storey great room with walls netted and filled with blown-in insulation — Two-storey great room with the walls netted and blown to full density

Featured project

Two-storey great room — full BIBS wall and ceiling system

A tall great room netted and blown wall-to-wall, including the cathedral ceiling and the framing around a two-storey chimney breast and window bank — the kind of geometry where cut-and-stuff batts quietly lose their rating.

Every one of those framed openings is a place where a batt has to be cut, and every cut is a chance to leave a gap. Blowing the cavity to density behind netting fills what is actually there — around the bracing, the wiring and the odd stud spacing that tall walls always have.

NEEDS: confirm the town, the builder and the year for this build

Building type: New residential build
Location: NEEDS: town
Products used: BIBS blown-in wall and ceiling system
Year: NEEDS: year

Cathedral ceiling and walls filled with blown-in insulation before drywall — The cathedral ceiling filled ahead of drywall

Wall cavity netted and filled with BIBS blown-in insulation — Netting stapled and the cavity packed solid — no voids to settle later

Job photos

Every system, on real sites

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Cottage interior with spray foam applied to the ceiling and walls — Closed-cell foam across a cottage ceiling and walls — seals and insulates in one pass

Interior wall covered in closed-cell spray foam insulation — A full interior wall sprayed and trimmed flush, ready for the next trade

Interior of a Quonset hut garage insulated with continuous spray foam — Quonset hut garage — a curved shell foamed continuously, geometry no batt can follow

Basement floor area insulated before concrete is poured — Basement floor insulated ahead of the pour

Garage ceiling with insulation installed between structural ribs — Garage ceiling insulated between the structural ribs

Hot tub surround insulated with spray foam — Hot tub — foamed where moisture control matters as much as R-value

Circular pool shell with insulation applied to the exterior — Pool — insulated on the outside of the shell before backfill

Large shop floor covered with an even layer of spray foam insulation — Shop floor — sprayed to a continuous, even surface before the pour

Open roof structure with rafter bays netted for blown-in insulation — Rafter bays netted and filled across an open roof structure

Batt insulation fitted between studs in a home under construction — Batts cut and fitted to the actual cavity — no compressing, no gaps

Cathedral ceiling with batt insulation installed between rafters — Cathedral ceiling insulated between the rafters

Vaulted ceiling insulated and prepared for finishing — A vaulted ceiling insulated and ready for finishing

Large open commercial building with insulated ceiling — A large open building insulated overhead

Garage interior with walls and ceiling insulated — Garage walls and ceiling insulated so the space can actually be heated

Insulation detailed around a window opening in a framed wall — Detailing around a window opening, where most heat leaks start

Old settled insulation between floor joists before removal — Old, settled material between joists — the reason we recommend removal before topping up

Interior walls of a recent project covered in spray foam insulation — A recent job: interior walls sprayed end to end

Insulated wall system with vertical strapping on a recent project — A recent wall system, insulated and strapped

Insulated roof framing with mechanical runs routed through it — Roof framing insulated around the mechanical runs

Interior of a boat house with a boat slip, insulated and finished in wood — Boat house — an interior slip, insulated and finished in wood

Large building interior with the walls insulated before finishing — A large building insulated wall to wall before finishing

Upper storey rafters and knee walls insulated with batt — Rafters and knee walls insulated in an upper storey

Attic filled with old, dirty and settled insulation before removal — The before shot: old, dirty, settled attic insulation due for removal

Installer fitting fiberglass batt insulation into a stud wall — Batts cut and fitted by hand — the part that decides whether they hit their rating

Applicator in a protective suit spraying polyurethane foam onto a wall — Certified applicator in full protective equipment, mid-spray

Insulated ceiling with the membrane detailed and light fixture boxes taped and sealed — Ceiling closed in with every fixture box taped and sealed — the detailing that decides whether the rating holds

Attic rafters with netting stapled across the bays before insulation is blown in — Rafter bays netted in an attic before the fill goes in

Cathedral ceiling insulated between the rafters with two windows in the gable end — A cathedral ceiling insulated between the rafters and collar ties

Ceiling with light fixture boxes taped and sealed against air leakage — Fixture boxes taped and sealed before the ceiling is closed in

Wall cavities filled and faced, ready for drywall — Wall bays filled and faced, ready for drywall

Great room under construction, insulated, with large windows looking out onto snow — A great room insulated through the winter, with a glass wall onto the snow

Large room with the walls and ceiling insulated and sealed — A large room sealed and insulated wall to wall

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NEEDS: read through the photo captions on this page — they were written from the images themselves, so confirm the product named in each one is right before launch

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