Hot Attic Spray Foam Smell

A fire retardant paint was then applied over the spray foam.

Hot attic spray foam smell.

I had spray foam insulation put in my rim joists in my basement on august 29 2016. 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. My face has been swelling since. The smell in the house was hardly noticeable and even in the attic it just smelled like a fresh coat of paint.

As i entered his home i could not smell our foam. Sealed his attic with spray foam. You can t remove spray foam and you can t make stinky spray foam quit stinking. 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.

Rafters were insulated with open cell spray foam to create a conditioned space since an air handler gas fired furnace are in the attic. However you usually can keep the bad smell out of your home. As i questioned him he said bob i get a whiff of it. A attic guy thinks its the spray foam.

He couldn t smell the foam either. 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. I have been to many various doctors now i m seeing a environmental doctor. I walked upstairs 2 story home with him no smell.

We climbed into his sealed attic stillno smell. When the oms fan is running it s designed to vacuum odors and lingering humidity from your attic expelling it into the atmosphere. 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.