Homes in New Orleans run the gamut of household problems. Our summers are brutally hot and humid. Our winters are cold and, well, humid. Nearly year-round, we’re running some sort of appliance to either cool us down or heat us up. Our beautiful, older homes are drafty, and our hardwood floors prone to rot and […]
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“You get what you pay for” is perhaps never truer than when it comes to insulating your home or business. Spray polyurethane foam has been called the “miracle insulation” for a reason. While the upfront spray foam insulation cost may be a bit more than that of other products, when properly installed by a skilled
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Spray foam insulation is often called a miracle product. But if you allow an improperly trained/uncertified/incompetent/just-plain-lazy contractor to do your installation, you may end up needing a whole other kind of miracle! Spray foam insulation gone wrong can be a costly mistake, not only financially but a health hazard also. The spray foam product itself
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Is my home airtight? An airtight home is an ideal home, and spray polyurethane foam is the hands-down best way to make a home as airtight as possible. Unlike fiberglass or other “fluffy” insulation materials, it provides a genuine, consistent air barrier. That air barrier provided by spray foam prevents uncontrolled movement of air that
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Leaky faucets — no good. Leaky homes — even worse. If your home has uncontrolled air leakage in and out of it, you have a lot more to worry about than an annoying drip-drip-drip. Air leaks waste energy — and therefore your hard-earned money. They can also carry moisture that leads to condensation, which feeds
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What do you get when you cross a 110-year-old double shotgun camelback house with no sub-flooring and crawl space insulation? A lot more comfort and more money in your pocket. At least, that’s what Roger C. discovered after having Sunlight Contractors, LLC do a closed spray foam insulation makeover on his Uptown District New Orleans
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Why choose spray foam insulation and Sunlight Contractors for your home’s insulation needs? Stop drafts, allergens, and condensation. Improve indoor air quality. Increase climate comfort and structural strength while reducing noise and keeping pests, mildew and mildew at bay. Lower your carbon footprint. Reduce energy waste and save money! It’s hard to believe that one
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Smart homeowners want high-quality, properly installed insulation that allows them to remain comfortable winter, spring, summer, fall — and, yes, even when the monthly utility bill arrives. Spray polyurethane foam offers highly effective insulation for a home’s interior (in walls, ceiling, and attics), and can even be applied around corners and on contoured surfaces. It
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Your attic’s insulation can leave you cold. Encapsulate your Attic Here’s the truth: If you have an improperly insulated or uninsulated attic, you have air leaks. And just as hot summer outside air can “leak in” and raise your AC costs, the nice warm air you’re paying for in winter will rise up and “leak”
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For many homeowners, the cost of spray foam creates some initial hesitation. Certainly, having your attic and crawlspace properly insulated with spray foam costs more than using the pink stuff that your mom and dad relied on; however, unlike the pink stuff and other traditional insulation, spray foam need only be applied once. After its
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Hire Certified Installers Balash decided, he needed a certified installer if he was going to spend the money to upgrade his insulation. He had chosen spray foam insulation for the project. Eager to see his heating and cooling costs reduced, he began researching local insulation contractors. What he found was typical of an unregulated industry.
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Blown in Cellulose Insulation for Historic New Orleans Homes For many New Orleans homeowners, adding insulation can be tricky business. Historic homes must meet strict codes, and it can be a challenge to find an insulation that meets code requirements while also providing the air sealing required by leaky older structures and an adequate R-value
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Insulation Installation by a Certified Contractor Louisiana builders like Jimmy Smith of Southeast Louisiana Construction trust the contractors at Sunlight Contractors, LLC. Why? They know efficient, professional workmanship when they see it! Our spray foam insulation installation renovations help builders finish homes with an airtight, moisture resistant seal that increases the integrity and the value of
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Our Air Tight Reputation Leads to another Air Tight Home Home renovations provide challenge enough when you’re on site, but imagine trying to get your dream home ready to live in while you’re in another state. Natalie Foster was living in Washington when she began looking for contractors to install closed cell spray foam to
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Added Benefits of Insulating – Air Seal Homeowners usually think of air sealing as caulking windows and weather stripping doors. With closed cell spray foam insulation you get the added benefit of air seal in tiny cracks and crevices that we can not see. Like many homeowners in southern Louisiana, Manny Bautista of Slidell was confronted
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From New Orleans to Baton Rouge, Sunlight Contractors has spent the year giving homeowners the gift of energy savings. With open cell spray foam applied to attics and walls and closed cell spray foam applied to crawl spaces, residents of southern Louisiana are experiencing the superior comfort and savings that come from a home that
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Whether you look at our website, Facebook, or Angie’s List, you’ll find our clients raving about our professionalism and about the savings they’ve garnered from the spray foam application that we’ve installed in their homes and businesses. That’s because our commitment is first and foremost to the satisfaction of our southern Louisiana clients and to
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Moisture Prevention for your Home We can thank our humid climate for the lush foliage of City Park and the vibrant blooms of the bougainvillea, but humidity also creates problems for homeowners in New Orleans. Mold, mildew, and rot are all common dilemmas confronting thousands of structures in southern Louisiana’s moist warmth. Louisiana’s humidity creates
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A newly formed mineral processing company, IT Minerals is one of many emerging businesses making the port of New Orleans home. Because they import raw materials such as perlite, which is later turned into insulating material for construction projects, it’s no wonder that the company would prioritize energy efficiency. Spray Foam Roofing is a Logical
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Spray Foam Ignition Barriers = Safety Imagine Linda’s surprise when she discovered the unlicensed spray foam insulation contractors she’d hired carelessly disposing of excess insulation by burning it in the back of her large lot. It did not have the standard spray foam ignition barrier mixed in. The idea that the insulation used to fill her
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Spray Foam Insulation Certification Congratulations once more to Corey Yates, our fearless leader and the owner of Sunlight Contractors. He’s done it again! Corey has recently received the highest certification available to a spray foam installer: the SPFA Master Installer Spray Foam Insulation certification. The SPFA, or Spray Polyurethane Foam Alliance, has developed the only
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Can I have an Energy Efficient Historic Home? Enough can’t be said about New Orleans historic architecture. It is luring and fun to purchase one of these icons to the past. But anyone who owns a historic home will tell you that they are not energy efficient. Before we tackle that subject, lets look at the
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Crawl Space Problems are turned into Crawl Space Solutions Joan had cold drafty floors. She had lived with them for years and had enough of being uncomfortable in the winter months. She started looking for solutions to her crawl space problem. After all, heated floors was a silly solution. After researching different types of insulation,
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How is Spray Foam Insulation Cost Effective with the High Cost of Installation? Ask any homeowner who has paid for termite control, replacement of wood rot, and high utility bills, and they will tell it is absolutely cost-effective. Spray foam insulation is cost-effective for any home. That’s because the spray foam insulation cost is more
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Do It Right – Spray Foam Insulation Process Corey Yates explains the spray foam insulation process and why more homeowners and builders in New Orleans are choosing SPF insulation. Locations: Main Office: Sunlight Contractors, LLC 2323 Bainbridge St #110, Kenner, LA 70062 (504) 919-9993 New Orleans location: Sunlight Contractors, LLC 650 Poydras St, Suite 1400, Rm 33, New Orleans, LA
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