DIY Spray Foam Kits
I wanted insulate the ceiling of the basement. With polyurethane foam. Mainly to protect dust, and sound. Friends suggested DIY kit and I found this: https://www.sprayfoamdirect.com/products/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart Does anybody have experience with such kind of kits or polyurethane insulation in general. Is this a DIY as it states? Before I successfully re glazed bathtub so I…
I wanted insulate the ceiling of the basement. With polyurethane foam. Mainly to protect dust, and sound. Friends suggested DIY kit and I found this:
https://www.sprayfoamdirect.com/products/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=6&option=com_virtuemart
Does anybody have experience with such kind of kits or polyurethane insulation in general. Is this a DIY as it states? Before I successfully re glazed bathtub so I have some experience handling chemicals.
Hello Ringo,
Can you share with us the brand you used for this DIY job?
Thanks!
Anybody else could tell us their experience with one or another brand? It seams there are not that many choices.
Skip the resilient channels and donnacona? board. Use the batts then attach these
http://www.soundproofing.org/sales/SSP.htm
directly to the joists then 2 layers of 5/8″ sheetrock. Most important is to seal all holes and openings.
So after listening to you guys, I decided to go traditional way: Put pink insulation, donnacona board, resilient channels with acustic strips and 1/2 sheetrock. Let me know what can be done better in this sequence.
yes, I have experience with this product!
it’s great for insulation I think. it really makes an air-tight seal. and it can go in quickly. in fact, you HAVE to move quickly. anytime you stop for 30 seconds you have to swap out the gun nozzle bcs the foam expands. so it’s DIY but you need a friend to move the two tanks around bcs you won’t be able to get off your ladder and move them without having time issues.
also, I loved using this on my walls and hated it on my ceiling. it rains down on you and it burns (make sure everything is covered) and it gets all over everything so it takes a lot of time to prep the job. I did all the walls in 4 rooms in 40 minutes and then a whole day on the ceiling with a big mess to clean up.
if I had your project, I’d use another product. soundproofing or batting. cheaper and easier I think.
now how do you reglaze a tub? I need to do that!
Have you gotten any quotes yet from people who do this professionally? 1″ of this stuff isn’t going to make a big difference.
its a lot of money something that isn’t going to do all that much for sound isolation, especially footfall noise. i’d go paper backed pink fluffy if you’re putting it between joists. also for sound an extra layer of subfloor with a couple layers of roofing felt in between will go a long way in reducing vibrational noise at the source (of course that’s removing the floor upstairs)
or if not take the ceiling down and isolate the whole ceiling with resilient channel double drywall and ownes corning. you already have a big budget so why not do it right? the devil is in the details with regards to sound and there is a book that is great with regards to sound in a diy mindset. (i think its just one chapter but very helpful)
http://bk.ly/upv
I’ve used it once, although I thought that the spray foam I used was Iso-something and it definitely was green friendly, just based on the smell. They also insisted on extinguishing pilot lights and having good ventilation. The only difficult thing was getting the spray pattern down right, I was going in between joists and found that it worked best if I sprayed tight to one side, in the corner, then the other and finished with a strip down the middle. I forget what specific company I used, but they sent three cheap disposable spray hoses, since once you use one, you can’t let it sit, it’ll clog the hose. You either have to use the whole canister, or have extra spray hoses. They also had a very long blade for a reciprocating saw available so that you could cut the foam flush with the joists, but I didn’t put it on that thick. It’s also extremely hard to get off anything, so I’d put down drop cloths just to be on the safe side, and resist the urge to poke it before it sets up, it’s gooey as hell! Definitely DIY though.