Spray Foam Insulation in Takoma Park, MD

Spray foam insulation in Takoma Park is mostly about old wood-frame houses. Benjamin Franklin Gilbert founded the town in 1883 as one of the first planned Victorian commuter suburbs, centered on the B&O station, and it incorporated in 1890. Much of old Takoma Park is in the Takoma Park Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1976. The city had 7,161 housing units in 2020, 4.0 percent vacant.

Victorian and early 1900s houses

Balloon-style tall walls, steep attics, knee walls, dormers and big porches. These houses leak at the attic floor, the knee walls, the rim and through hollow walls. Dense-pack cellulose suits closed frame walls; foam suits knee walls and sloped ceilings.

Tree City shade

Takoma Park is a Tree City USA. Shade helps in summer, but roofs under trees can hold moisture and debris. We check attics for leaks and staining before covering anything.

Mid-century additions

The Takoma Avenue Historic District includes five identical houses built in 1951, designed by Charles M. Goodman. Houses from that era have different needs, usually attic and crawl space work.

Porches and sleeping porches

Many old Takoma Park houses have enclosed porches or sleeping porches added decades ago with little or no insulation. Foam in the porch ceiling and floor, and dense-pack or foam in the walls, can turn one into a usable room year round.

Plaster and trim

Old plaster walls and original trim deserve care. We cover floors and furniture and keep drilling and patching neat when dense-packing walls.

Code

Maryland adopted the 2021 IECC in 2023; Montgomery County is in Zone 4A. Get a free estimate