Hot Attic Spray Foam Smell

Sealed his attic with spray foam.

Hot attic spray foam smell.

However you usually can keep the bad smell out of your home. I walked upstairs 2 story home with him no smell. As i entered his home i could not smell our foam. On a hot humid summer afternoon if by chance you get a whiff of spray foam smell while walking down the upstairs hall it s easy to manage.

A attic guy thinks its the spray foam. You can t remove spray foam and you can t make stinky spray foam quit stinking. I had spray foam insulation put in my rim joists in my basement on august 29 2016. Also that day cellulose was put in the attic.

The solution generally involves some combination of isolating the stinky attic air replacing attic air with indoor air ventilating your living space and aggressively filtering the air moving through. I have been to many various doctors now i m seeing a environmental doctor. Rafters were insulated with open cell spray foam to create a conditioned space since an air handler gas fired furnace are in the attic. My face has been swelling since.

Turn your oms fan on. He couldn t smell the foam either. As i questioned him he said bob i get a whiff of it. The smell in the house was hardly noticeable and even in the attic it just smelled like a fresh coat of paint.

The paint odor was very bad at first the owner was told the smell would subside but it hasn t in 2 years is especially strong in summer. Homeowner james polk who recently hired sunlight contractors to install approximately 3000 square feet of spray polyurethane foam in his destrehan home describes his experience which is typical of a job done right. We climbed into his sealed attic stillno smell.