Insulation in Newark, NJ

Insulating homes and buildings in Newark

Newark gives us two very different kinds of work in the same city. On the residential side we spend most of our time in the Ironbound, Forest Hill and the North Ward, working on two- and three-family houses where the top floor bakes in summer and the first floor never gets warm in winter. The cause is almost always the same: a completely unsealed attic combined with open balloon-framed wall cavities that let air move floor to floor.

On the commercial side, Newark's warehouse and light industrial stock is some of the oldest in the region. Uninsulated steel decks that rain condensation onto pallets, and open ceilings that make heating a facility financially painful, are the two problems we get called about most. Closed cell foam applied directly to the underside of the deck solves both at once, and we phase the work so operations keep running.

One thing Newark landlords and multi-family owners consistently underestimate is how much open cell foam does for sound between units. Filling the floor and partition cavities cuts conversation and TV noise between apartments noticeably, and it is far cheaper than any retrofit acoustic assembly.