Insulation in Jersey City, NJ

Insulating homes and buildings in Jersey City

Jersey City work is dominated by attached housing — brownstones and row houses in Downtown, Hamilton Park, the Heights and Bergen-Lafayette — plus a steady volume of gut renovation and new mid-rise construction. In attached buildings the thermal problems concentrate at the front and rear walls, the roof, and the cellar, because those are the only surfaces exposed to outside air.

The roof is where the biggest gains are. Many of these buildings have a flat roof over a top-floor ceiling with minimal insulation, so the top floor is punishing in August. Spray foaming the underside of the roof deck seals and insulates it in one pass and does not require touching the roof membrane above.

Sound is the other reason owners here call us. In a gut renovation, filling the floor cavities and interior partitions with open cell foam while the framing is open costs relatively little and makes a genuine difference in how quiet the finished unit feels — something buyers and tenants notice immediately.