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Residential Spray Foam Insulation in Roswell

Attic, wall, and crawl space foam for Roswell homes, from mid-century ranch houses in town to farmhouses down the valley in Dexter and Hagerman. We check the attic, the ductwork, and how the house is cooled before choosing open-cell or closed-cell.

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Residential Spray Foam in Roswell

Where Roswell’s Walker-era ranch houses leak heat and cool air

Roswell went from about 26,000 people in 1950 to nearly 40,000 in 1960, during the Walker Air Force Base years, and plenty of the houses built for that boom are still standing. Many are one-story ranch homes under low-pitched roofs. The attic is a few feet tall at the peak and pinches down to a few inches at the eaves, right where blown insulation is thinnest and hot attic air slips over the tops of the walls. On a 100-degree afternoon, ductwork running through that attic hands its heat to the air on the way to the rooms. On a freezing winter night, the same gaps let the furnace’s heat out.

Foam handles the thin insulation and the leaks at the same time. When the ducts run through the attic, we usually spray open-cell onto the roof deck from below, which brings them inside the insulated space. When the attic holds nothing but joists, the attic floor is an option, with closed-cell at the pinched edges, where it gets the most R-value into a few inches. A swamp cooler can change that call, so we ask how the house is cooled. Finished walls are harder to reach than open framing, so they get decided house by house. New homes and additions are simpler: we spray them before the drywall goes up.

Typical home insulation jobs in Roswell

  • Open-cell under the roof deck of low-pitched Walker-era ranch houses
  • Closed-cell at pinched eaves where blown insulation never had room
  • Enclosed back porches and converted garages that bake all summer
  • Older farmhouses and their add-on rooms near Dexter, Hagerman, and Lake Arthur
  • New homes and room additions, foamed at the framing stage

What we plan around in Roswell

  • Summer heat soaking into shallow attics and the ductwork running through them
  • Swamp coolers that depend on air escaping through open windows or vents
  • Hail-damaged roofs, which should be repaired before roof-deck foam
  • Freezing winter nights and dry spring wind working through old gaps

How it works

  1. Step 1

    Walk the house

    We look at the attic, walls, and crawl space and recommend open-cell or closed-cell foam for each.

  2. Step 2

    Prep

    Floors, windows, and anything nearby get covered, and the work area is ventilated.

  3. Step 3

    Spray

    Foam goes on to the thickness in the estimate, sealing gaps as it expands.

  4. Step 4

    Check and clean up

    We check coverage, clean up, and tell you when the space is ready to use again.

Also serving: Midway, Dexter, Hagerman, Lake Arthur.

Our work

Residential Spray Foam projects around Roswell

See our projects in the area. Each gallery names the town.

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Guides

Worth reading before you call

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Spray foam insulation guide

Open-cell or closed-cell spray foam for your house?

Both foams seal air and insulate, but they are different materials with different jobs. Here is what each one is, where it belongs in a New Mexico house, and how the choice gets made.

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Rebates and tax credits

Insulation rebates and tax credits in New Mexico

New Mexico’s utilities run home efficiency programs, and the federal homeowner credit has ended for new work. Here is who runs what, what the PNM, New Mexico Gas Company and IRS pages said when we checked, and how to keep a rebate from slipping away.

5 min read

Home insulation guide

Getting a New Mexico attic ready for winter

Cold nights come fast at this altitude, and most of the heat a house loses in winter goes out through the attic. Here is what to look at up there before the first freeze, and what it means.

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Residential Spray Foam in Roswell: common questions

Yes, get the roof checked first. Roof-deck foam sticks to the underside of the decking, and once it’s on, a small leak from a cracked shingle can be harder to spot. If hail left damage, have it repaired or the roof replaced, then foam. If a new roof is already planned, tell us, since it makes sense to line the two jobs up.
Usually, yes, but each part gets its own look. A 1950s core, a later bedroom wing, and an enclosed porch can each have a different roof pitch, a different attic or none at all, so the foam and where it goes can change from one part of the house to the next. We walk the whole house and break the estimate down by area so you can see what goes where.
Yes. We’re a residential insulation contractor for the whole stretch of the valley from Roswell down to Lake Arthur, including Midway, Dexter, and Hagerman. Send the address, the house’s rough size, and which rooms bother you most.

Need home insulation in Roswell?

Tell us when the house was built, how it’s heated and cooled, and what you want insulated, and we’ll set up a site visit.

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