Drastically reduce excess energy loss within your home by insulating your underfloor. Working with our insulation installers means keeping the floor of your home warm, comfortable, and quiet year-round. Operating Tasmania-wide.
The Stack Effect
When heaters run, warm air rises and escapes through ventilated ceiling cavities. This creates pressure inside the home, pulling in cold air from the subfloor perimeter like a vacuum.
Turn on the Heater 1
Turning on one heater warms the air inside your home. As warm air rises toward the ceiling, it begins escaping through small gaps in the roof and upper walls. This creates slight negative pressure that draws cold outside air into your home through cracks in the subfloor, windows, and other hidden openings.
Turn on the Heater 2
Adding a second heater warms more of the home’s air, making it rise faster and increasing the pressure difference between inside and outside. As more warm air escapes at the top of the house, even more cold air is pulled in through leaks beneath your floor and around your home. The greater the heating, the greater the air leakage.
Insulate your home with Spray Foam
Spray foam seals the hidden gaps where air enters and escapes. By reducing unwanted airflow, it weakens the stack effect, helping your home stay warmer with less heat loss. Your heaters don’t need to work as hard, improving comfort and reducing energy costs.
If you own an older Tasmanian home, there’s a good chance you have hardwood floors on raised foundations. Then you’ll also know how uncomfortable icy floorboards can be, or what it’s like to feel a cold gust of air coming through the gaps. An underfloor that is uninsulated or insulated with a non-compliant installation can quickly turn into a serious problem. Left unchecked, it reduces your home’s comfort and sends your energy bills skyrocketing.
Our team will always recommend assessing your home’s underfloor as a first priority and this is why. A study from the University of Tasmania found that homes with raised timber floors require a massive 40–60% more energy to maintain the same indoor temperature as homes built on concrete. To put this into perspective, if your annual energy bill is $2,000, around $550 to $750 of that could be due solely to the fact that your home is built on raised timber flooring instead of concrete.
Spray foam insulation is a proven, long-lasting solution to convert a leaky underfloor into a thermally efficient barrier. Our team uses industry-leading technology and equipment to eliminate draught spots, improve comfort, and cut your energy bills.
Our Australian-made spray foam creates a concrete-like barrier that prevents heat from seeping out during winter while blocking unwanted heat from entering during summer. This means you’ll enjoy a cosy, well-insulated underfloor regardless of the season. Above all, it means drastically less wasted heating and cooling energy, adding up to potentially thousands in long-term savings.
HOW DOES IT WORk?
At Spray Foam Insulation Tasmania, we understand every project comes with a unique set of challenges. That’s why we take the time to understand your needs and desired results. Above all, our team values honesty and integrity – we’ll never suggest a solution unless we’re confident it’s right for you.
All of our residential insulation projects start with a quick conversation with one of our friendly staff members. We’ll ask you a few questions about your home, including what current forms of insulation you have, issues with heating your home, and if you’re noticing draughts etc. Our staff member will then typically email you a few informational PDF brochures along with our pricing structures.
Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you have any more questions or would like to discuss your options!
Next, we’ll inspect your entire home with our state-of-the-art thermal imaging camera. This allows us to precisely identify draught spots, defective insulation, and inadequately insulated sections of your living space.
Thermal imaging is quick, accurate, and gives our team complete confidence that we’re addressing your home’s most critical areas.
It’s the law to assess your home first by a Licenced Electrician before applying insulation to a living space. We thoroughly evaluate all potential electrical risks during planning and installation. For example, when applying insulation, cables must be provided with enough space to dissipate heat. An improper installation can result in inconvenient circuit tripping or, worse, cause a fire.
Our team members are licenced Electrical Contractors (LIC# 871947842) to ensure every installation aligns with residential construction legislation.
Once all checks have been ticked off, our team will thoroughly insulate your underfloor. When it comes to underfloor insulation projects, our preferred method of insulation is spray foam insulation due to its ability to block cold draughts, improve heat retention and strength, and reduce annoying squeaking. This process typically takes about 6 to 7 hours to complete.
It’s important to note that every home is different and comes with its own unique set of requirements. This means we may recommend alternatives depending on what we’ve uncovered during the checks.
Once completed, we validate our work with our thermal imaging tool. This ensures our team has addressed all draught spots, and we’ve insulated your home to the highest standards!
