Spray Foam Insulation in West Brighton, NY

Spray foam insulation in West Brighton covers a wide range of houses. Wikipedia notes the area was originally known as Factoryville and settled by the Dutch in the 1600s, with the first lawn tennis court in the United States built here in 1873 at the site of today's Walker Park. Shoreline sections are known as Livingston and Randall Manor, and the Sunset Hill area east of Broadway holds some of the neighborhood's larger houses.

What older houses need

Many West Brighton houses predate modern insulation rules. Common problems are attics with little insulation and many open bypasses, walls with nothing in them, and basements where the rim joist lets cold air in around the whole house. In larger houses on Sunset Hill and near Clove Lakes Park, high ceilings, bay windows and dormers add more surface to insulate and more places for air to leak.

Postwar and newer homes

The neighborhood changed after World War II, when the Markham Homes and West Brighton Houses were built, and infill houses have gone up on many blocks since. Newer houses usually have some wall insulation but thin attics and weak spots around attached garages and kneewalls. We look at each house on its own rather than assuming its age tells the whole story.

Owners and renters

Wikipedia's census summary for the West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill tabulation area shows 47.4% of occupied units are rented. Owners of two-family houses often ask us to start with the attic and basement, since sealing both ends of the house helps both units.

Where foam fits

Closed-cell foam suits the rim joist, cathedral ceilings in dormers and attic conversions, and any wall being opened during a renovation. Open-cell is useful in interior floors between units to cut noise. For a plain attic floor, we usually seal and then blow in cellulose to reach R-49, the ceiling value in the 2025 NYC Energy Conservation Code.

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