Spray Foam Insulation in Summerville, GA

Summerville homeowners in Chattooga County know what it’s like to fight high utility bills in a climate that swings from freezing winters to sweltering summers. If your HVAC runs constantly and your house still isn’t comfortable, the problem is the insulation. Foametix serves Summerville and all of Chattooga County with spray foam for attics, crawl spaces, walls, and metal buildings. Over 17 years in business. Free on-site evaluation.

Why Summerville homes need spray foam

Chattooga County summers push attic temps past 140 degrees, and the fiberglass up there can't stop that heat from pouring into your ceilings. The crawl spaces are vented and uninsulated, which means ground moisture rides straight up into the floor system all year. That's why the house feels muggy even when the AC is running. Spray foam in the attic stops the heat. Encapsulating the crawl space stops the moisture. Your HVAC catches up, the rooms level out, and the bill drops. Outside Summerville? We spray foam attics and crawl spaces all across our service area. We're regularly in nearby LaFayette, Calhoun, and Trenton too.

Summerville sits at about 650 feet along the Chattooga River, at the western base of Taylor Ridge. That is a low spot with a river running through it and a ridge on one side, and it collects weather. The town takes roughly 58 inches of precipitation a year, spread fairly evenly across the calendar rather than dumped in one season, with summer highs pushing toward the mid-90s.

Even rainfall is harder on a house than you would think. There is no dry stretch for the ground under your crawl space to give up its moisture, so the soil stays damp year-round and a vented crawl keeps pulling humid air across a cool floor system. Up top, an attic under a north Georgia summer sun runs far hotter than the air outside, and fiberglass does nothing to stop the air moving through it. We've been sealing houses in Chattooga County for 17+ years.

Every building type in Chattooga County

Summerville and the surrounding area have older homes, farmhouses, manufactured homes on crawl space foundations, and metal buildings of every size. We insulate all of them. The evaluation is free, the quote is exact, and we don't start work until you've seen the number and said go.

Downtown and courthouse-square era houses

Summerville was laid out in the late 1830s as the seat of the new Chattooga County. The Commercial Historic District covers around eight blocks centered on Commerce Street, Georgia Avenue and Washington Avenue, with buildings running from the 1890s into the 1950s: the Arrington building from 1894, the 1909 courthouse, the 1918 depot. The houses around that core are the same vintage. Pier foundations, open vented crawl spaces, plaster on lath, and a bare gable attic with a thin layer of settled insulation over an unsealed ceiling plane.

Mill village cottages

The Summerville Cotton Mill opened in 1907, and by 1917 its village had seventy homes on large lots, a church, concrete sidewalks and its own waterworks. Montgomery Knitting Mills followed in 1927 and that building still stands downtown. The cottages from both are small, framed light, and sit low over shallow crawl spaces. Shallow crawls put damp ground close to the joists, and shallow attics leave nowhere to put insulation depth. On those houses a sealed roof deck and sealed crawl walls do the work that piling material cannot.

Postwar ranches and newer builds

Out from downtown you get brick ranches and newer construction with ductwork routed through vented crawl spaces or unconditioned attics and fiberglass batts stapled between the floor joists. Batts in a floor system sag out of the bays and take on moisture from the air moving under them. Ducts outside the envelope lose conditioned air before it reaches a register, which is why the hallway thermostat reads fine and the back bedroom does not.

The mill houses

The houses those mills built are still being lived in, and they all share the same problem. Light framing, no sheathing wrap, no continuous air barrier, a low crawl space, and an attic with no depth. The result is a house that is drafty and damp at the same time, because those are two symptoms of one thing.

Foam on the underside of the roof deck fixes the top of that loop without touching the outside of the house - no siding pulled, no trim cut, no change to the street view.

Crawl spaces: no dehumidifier, because the seal is complete

For the bottom, our crawl space encapsulation needs no dehumidifier, because the seal is complete. Nothing running under the floor, no power draw, no filter to keep up with. Closed-cell foam on the crawl walls and rim joists, a heavy ground barrier, vents sealed shut. See crawl space encapsulation in Summerville.

Common questions from Summerville homeowners

Do you come down into Georgia, or do you stay around Chattanooga?
We come down. We work out of Chattanooga and cover roughly a hundred miles out, which puts Summerville and all of Chattooga County well inside our area. We are in LaFayette, Trenton and Calhoun regularly on the same runs.

Our house is one of the old mill cottages. Is there room to work under it?
Usually. Low crawls are standard in those houses and we spray a lot of them. Our crew checks clearance and access during the free on-site evaluation.

We are close to the Chattooga River. Does that affect the crawl space?
It affects how wet the ground stays. Between the river bottom and roughly 58 inches of rain a year spread across all twelve months, the soil under a lot of Summerville houses never really dries out.

Can you do a commercial building or a shop, not just a house?
Yes. Commercial buildings, warehouses and metal buildings are a regular part of what we do in Chattooga County. Bare metal panel sweats as soon as warm humid air hits the cool skin.

Why does my attic feel so much hotter than the air outside?
The roof absorbs sun and radiates it down into the attic all afternoon, and the insulation on your ceiling does not stop air - it only slows heat. Sealing the roof deck keeps the attic from becoming that oven in the first place.