Orillia Spray Foam Insulation
Orillia, Ontario ยท On The Narrows
Orillia Spray Foam Insulation installs closed cell and open cell spray foam insulation in attics, basements, crawl spaces, garages, cottages, new builds and commercial buildings across Orillia, Severn, Ramara and Oro-Medonte. All of our work is fully insured. The visit is free, and the written quote spells out which foam, how thick, and how many square feet.
Call +1 (705) 805-5871.
Tell us which part of the building it is and roughly how big, and we will book the free visit. Or call +1 (705) 805-5871.
We measure before we spray and we write down what we measured. The substrate temperature is checked before the first pass, the depth is checked as the foam goes on, and thick sections are built up in lifts rather than one heavy pass. Those three habits are what separate foam that lasts from foam that shrinks, cracks or smells in its second winter.
The written quote is the other half of it. Every quote from us lists the product, the thickness, the square footage and the total for each part of the job, so two quotes can be compared line by line. You can read more about how we work on the about page, or send the form and we will come and look.
Nine spray foam insulation services cover every part of a house, cottage or commercial building around Orillia.
Attic spray foam insulation seals the air leaks in the ceiling and insulates over them in one visit, which is what stops ice dams and bare roof stripes on Orillia houses. All of our work is fully insured, and the quote is written before anything is sprayed.
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Basement spray foam insulation puts closed cell foam directly on the foundation wall, where it insulates, blocks vapour and seals the joint between concrete and wood in one product. The work is insured, and every basement quote names the thickness in writing.
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Crawl space spray foam insulation seals the walls and the rim joist with closed cell foam, closes the vents and turns a cold, damp box under the floor into part of the heated house. Insurance covers the work, and the quote covers the ground sheet as well as the foam.
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Garage spray foam insulation makes an attached garage stop pulling heat out of the house beside it and above it, and makes a detached garage usable all winter. The work is insured, and the quote separates the ceiling, the shared wall and the outside walls so you can choose what to do.
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New construction spray foam insulation seals and insulates a new house, addition or cottage while the framing is open, so the envelope is right once and never has to be opened again. Insurance covers the work, and we schedule around the framer, the electrician and the drywall crew.
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Closed cell and open cell spray foam insulation are two different products for two different jobs, and choosing the wrong one is the most common mistake we are called to fix around Orillia. All of our work is fully insured, and every quote names which product goes on which surface.
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Insulation removal and replacement takes out foam that failed, or batts that got wet or were chewed through, and replaces them with foam installed properly. The work is insured, and we photograph what we remove so the quote shows why.
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Cottage and waterfront spray foam insulation turns a seasonal building on Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching, Bass Lake or the Severn River into one that can be lived in through an Orillia winter. Insurance covers the work, and the quote is written in the order the work should be done so you can do it in stages.
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Commercial, shop and pole barn spray foam insulation sprays closed cell foam straight onto the metal or wood skin of a building, which stops the condensation, stiffens the structure and makes the space possible to heat. The work is insured, and we quote by the square foot at a stated thickness.
View Commercial, Shop and Pole Barn InsulationSpray foam insulation seals air leaks and insulates in the same pass, which no batt or blown product does. In a house that carries three feet of snow on its roof for three months, stopping the air leak is the whole game.
Closed cell spray foam insulation reaches about R-6 to R-7 per inch, so it fits real insulation value into a shallow rafter bay or a rim joist where nothing else will.
Closed cell foam is its own vapour barrier at the right thickness, which is why it is the product for basement walls, crawl spaces and floors over cold space.
Spray foam insulation does not settle, slump or hold water. A batt that got wet once stays compressed and useless. Foam sprayed to a wall is still there, at the same depth, thirty years later.
Air sealing cuts the moisture that reaches the roof deck, so the frost, the drips and the mould stains that show up in Orillia attics every March stop forming.
Open cell spray foam insulation absorbs sound. Between the bedrooms and the living room, or under a bonus room, it does two jobs for one price.
We measure the space, check the substrate for moisture and temperature, and settle the product and thickness with you. The written quote follows and covers everything from prep to the thermal barrier.
An ice dam forms when heat from the house melts the bottom of the snowpack on the roof and the meltwater freezes again at the cold eave. Orillia sits in the Georgian Bay snowbelt and averages close to ten feet of snow a year, and the winter of 2024 to 2025 dropped more than fifteen feet on the city. A roof here carries snow from December to March, so any heat leaking into the attic has a long time to do its work.
The fix is not on the roof. It is in the attic, where warm air escapes around pot lights, the attic hatch, plumbing stacks and the top plates of interior walls. Attic spray foam insulation seals every one of those leaks and insulates over them in the same visit. The sign that it worked is a roof that keeps its snow evenly all winter instead of wearing a bare stripe up the middle.
A roof that melts its own snow while the neighbour's roof stays white is losing heat through the ceiling. It is the most honest energy audit in Orillia and it costs nothing to read. Drive down any street in the North Ward after a snowfall and the houses with bare roofs are the ones spending the most on gas or hydro.
Foam on the attic floor, or on the underside of the roof deck when the attic holds ductwork, puts the roof back in the cold where it belongs. The house holds its heat, the snow stays on the shingles, and the ice dams that pulled the eavestrough loose stop forming.
Foundation walls in the older parts of the city, from the downtown grid out through the North Ward and the South Ward, are stone, block or early poured concrete, and most of them were never insulated. Warm house air reaches the cold wall, condenses, and feeds the musty smell that a dehumidifier never fully clears.
Basement spray foam insulation puts closed cell foam directly on the foundation wall, where it insulates, blocks vapour and seals the joint where the wood frame sits on the concrete. No poly sheet, no studs full of fibreglass against a damp wall, and no place for mould to start.
The Canadian Shield reaches down to the Severn River, so houses around Washago, Severn Falls and the Rama side of Lake Couchiching often sit on shallow foundations, block crawl spaces or piers because there was no depth to dig. A vented crawl space in that country is a cold box under the floor all winter and a damp one all summer.
Crawl space spray foam insulation closes the vents, seals the walls and the rim joist with closed cell foam, and brings the space inside the heated envelope. The floor above stops being cold, and the pipes that run through the crawl space stop freezing.
Orillia is the service centre for the cottages on Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching, Bass Lake and the Severn River, and more of them are lived in through the winter every year. A building that was framed for July has thin or empty walls, an uninsulated floor over open piers or a vented crawl space, and plumbing that has never seen minus twenty.
Cottage and waterfront spray foam insulation starts with the floor, because an open floor is the coldest surface in the building and the one that freezes the pipes. Then the walls, then the roof, in the order that buys the most comfort for the money.
The subdivisions built in West Ridge and Westmount since about 2000 already have insulated walls and attics. What they usually do not have is a properly insulated garage ceiling under the bonus room, a sealed cantilever under the bay window, or a garage wall that keeps the cold off the mudroom.
Garage spray foam insulation fixes those specific details. Closed cell foam on the garage ceiling and the shared wall keeps the room above and the room beside it at the same temperature as the rest of the house, and it seals out the exhaust and fuel smell at the same time.
The brick and frame houses along Maple Drive, Bay Street and the streets around the downtown were built when wall cavities were left hollow. Some still carry knob-and-tube wiring and balloon framing that runs open from the basement to the attic. Those walls lose heat all winter and pull cold air up through the house like a chimney.
We take these one wall at a time. Where the plaster or the siding is coming off anyway, the open bays get spray foam insulation. Where the walls stay closed, the attic, the basement and the rim joist get sealed first, because that is where most of the heat is leaving. Solid masonry walls need care so they can still dry, and we will tell you plainly when foam is not the right product for a wall.
Closed cell spray foam insulation is dense, rigid, about R-6 to R-7 per inch, and a vapour barrier at two inches or more. It goes on foundation walls, crawl spaces, rim joists, roof decks, garages and anywhere that gets damp or cold. Open cell spray foam insulation is soft, about R-3.5 to R-3.8 per inch, and lets vapour through. It fills deep wall cavities inside the heated part of the house and it absorbs sound.
Using open cell where closed cell belongs is the most common mistake we are asked to fix. The closed cell and open cell page explains the choice in full, and the quote we write always names which product goes where.
A new house or addition in Orillia, Oro-Medonte or Ramara is the one time the whole envelope is open at once. New construction spray foam insulation seals the rim joist, the cathedral ceilings, the cantilevers and the tricky corners the framing left behind, then fills the walls to the thickness the plans call for. It is scheduled around the framer, the electrician and the drywall crew so nobody waits.
Foam that was sprayed off-ratio, sprayed too cold or sprayed too thick in one pass shrinks away from the framing, cracks, turns crumbly or keeps a chemical smell for months. It cannot be sprayed over. Insulation removal and replacement covers the whole sequence, from cutting failed foam or wet, mouldy batts back to clean framing through to spraying the new material properly. We photograph what we find and put it in the quote.
The steel-clad shops in the industrial park, the boat storage buildings along both lakes, and the pole barns and horse barns in Oro-Medonte and Severn all have the same problem: a metal or plywood skin that sweats on the inside every time the temperature swings. Commercial, shop and pole barn spray foam insulation sprays closed cell foam directly to the skin between the girts and purlins, which stops the condensation, stiffens the building and makes it possible to heat.
Ontario's building code requires spray foam insulation in a living space to be covered by a thermal barrier, and half-inch drywall is the usual one. In an attic, a crawl space or another space nobody occupies, a tested coating is the normal answer. We include the covering in the quote or say plainly that it is excluded, so the number you compare is the whole number.
Four things set the price: the product, the thickness, the area and the access. Closed cell costs more per inch than open cell. Three inches costs more than two. A tight crawl space with a hatch in a closet costs more per square foot than an open basement. Published Ontario guides put installed open cell at roughly three to five and a half dollars a square foot and closed cell at roughly five and a half to eight and a half, and a typical attic, basement or garage lands somewhere in the low to mid thousands. Those are market ranges. Your number comes from the visit and arrives in writing.
Ontario runs a home renovation savings program that has covered attic, wall, basement and crawl space insulation. Most of it needs a home energy assessment before the work starts and more than one upgrade done together, and the amounts and rules have changed more than once. We will tell you if your job is likely to qualify and point you at the program itself for the current terms. We do not build a quote around a rebate that might not arrive.
We come to the property, look at the space, take measurements and check the substrate for moisture. You get a written quote that names the product, thickness, area and price for each part of the job.
On the day, the area is masked, the space is ventilated and the substrate temperature is checked before anything is sprayed.
The foam goes on in lifts, and the depth is checked with a gauge as it builds so the quoted thickness is the installed thickness.
The space is trimmed, cleaned and, where the quote includes it, covered with drywall or a thermal coating. Anyone in the house stays out of the sprayed area until it has cured.
We walk you through what was done, photograph it for your records, and leave the number to call if anything ever looks wrong.
Attics, basement walls, crawl spaces, garages and new builds sprayed to the thickness the quote promised.
We work across the city of Orillia, from the North Ward and the downtown out to West Ridge, Westmount, Orillia Heights and the South Waterfront, and through the townships that ring it: Severn, including Washago, Coldwater, Marchmont and Cumberland Beach; Ramara, including Atherley, Brechin and Rama; and Oro-Medonte, including Hawkestone, Shanty Bay and Horseshoe Valley. Cottages on Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching, Bass Lake and the Severn River are a normal part of the week. Contact us with the address and we will confirm the visit.
Call +1 (705) 805-5871 and a free visit is booked anywhere in Orillia or the townships around it. The written quote arrives with product, thickness, area and price on one page.
Published Ontario ranges for 2026 run about three to five and a half dollars a square foot for open cell and five and a half to eight and a half for closed cell, installed. Thickness, access and the amount of prep move the number. A written quote after a free visit is the only price that applies to your building.
In most Orillia houses, yes. Ice dams come from heat leaking into the attic, and sealing and insulating the attic with spray foam removes the heat. The exceptions are roofs with a design problem, such as a valley that dumps onto a low eave, and we will say so if we see one.
Closed cell for anything that touches concrete, soil or the outdoors: basements, crawl spaces, rim joists, roof decks and garages. Open cell for interior walls and deep cavities inside the heated house, and where sound matters. The quote names which product goes where.
Not in a space you live in. Ontario's code requires a thermal barrier over the foam, and half-inch drywall is the usual one. In an unoccupied crawl space or attic, a tested coating is normally used instead.
An attic, a basement or a garage is usually one day. Whole-house new construction or a cottage conversion runs two to three. The space needs to stay empty while the foam cures, usually until the next day.
Describe the space as well as you can and we will phone to set the visit. The form sends with just a name and a number. If you would rather talk, call +1 (705) 805-5871.
