Hot Attic Spray Foam Smell

A attic guy thinks its the spray foam.

Hot attic spray foam smell. I walked upstairs 2 story home with him no smell. When the oms fan is running it s designed to vacuum odors and lingering humidity from your attic expelling it into the atmosphere. The paint odor was very bad at first the owner was told the smell would subside but it hasn t in 2 years is especially strong in summer. Turn your oms fan on.

I had spray foam insulation put in my rim joists in my basement on august 29 2016. Homeowner james polk who recently hired sunlight contractors to install approximately 3000 square feet of spray polyurethane foam in his destrehan home describes his experience which is typical of a job done right. However you usually can keep the bad smell out of your home. I have been to many various doctors now i m seeing a environmental doctor.

On a hot humid summer afternoon if by chance you get a whiff of spray foam smell while walking down the upstairs hall it s easy to manage. Sealed his attic with spray foam. The solution generally involves some combination of isolating the stinky attic air replacing attic air with indoor air ventilating your living space and aggressively filtering the air moving through. The smell in the house was hardly noticeable and even in the attic it just smelled like a fresh coat of paint.

We climbed into his sealed attic stillno smell. As i entered his home i could not smell our foam. My face has been swelling since. He couldn t smell the foam either.

You can t remove spray foam and you can t make stinky spray foam quit stinking. We opened the pull down attic stair no smell. Also that day cellulose was put in the attic.