Spray Foam Insulation in Grovetown, GA

Spray Foam Insulation in Grovetown mostly involves newer homes in a city that grew quickly. Wikipedia tells how the community started along the Georgia Railroad, where wealthy Augusta families kept summer homes to escape the city's heat and disease. Construction of Camp Gordon in 1942 turned the farm town into a growing city, and military families have looked to Grovetown for housing ever since. The city sits 15 miles west of downtown Augusta, 2 miles north of Fort Gordon, and had 15,577 residents in 2020.

Newer homes

Much of Grovetown's housing is relatively new: ranches and two-story homes in subdivisions with ducts in the attic and, often, bonus rooms. Builder insulation meets code, but hot attics and leaky ductwork are still common complaints.

Military moves

Many homeowners here are military families who may rent the house out later. Attic sealing and insulation are modest investments that make a house easier to rent and cheaper to cool for whoever lives there.

Attic and roof deck options

For open attics, sealing the ceiling and blowing loose fill deep is the best value. For tight attics full of ductwork, open-cell foam on the roof deck is worth pricing.

Code and program

OpenEI lists Columbia County in Zone 3A, and Georgia's code summary lists R-38 ceilings. Georgia Power's program page lists attic incentives for bringing attics at R-38 or less up to R-49.

Costs

HomeGuide lists blown-in attic insulation at $0.90 to $2.40 per square foot nationally. The written estimate is the price.

Bonus rooms and kneewalls

Many Grovetown two-story homes have bonus rooms over the garage. Those rooms have attic space behind short kneewalls and sloped ceilings with thin insulation, and they sit over garage air. Open-cell foam on the kneewalls and slopes, plus sealing where the floor meets the side attics, usually turns the hottest room in the house into a usable one.

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