Open-Cell Spray Foam in Bexley
Open-cell foam is the right choice for interior walls (sound dampening) and unconditioned attic floors where vapor permeability matters. Less expensive per board foot than closed-cell. Ideal for second-floor walls, attic floors, and above-roof-deck applications in conditioned attic designs. Bexley sits within our service area for Greater Columbus and Central Ohio, with same-week scheduling typical for routine jobs.
Typical pricing in Bexley
$0.50-$1.20 per board foot
Pricing varies by job specifics. Free phone or on-site quotes; fixed pricing once the technician has assessed the job.
Open-Cell Spray Foam for Bexley's a pre-war streetcar suburb of large Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival homes along Main Street and Broad Street housing
In Bexley, Open-Cell Spray Foam is the right product for vented attic-floor retrofits, interior partition wall sound assemblies, and any application where vapor permeability is a design requirement rather than a defect. The install is low-density (0.5 lb) water-blown open-cell foam at R-3.7 per inch, vapor-permeable and sound-dampening, applied to interior partition walls (for sound dampening) and unconditioned attic floors (where vapor permeability matters).
Bexley was built out mostly between 1908 and 1940 with large Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, and American Foursquare houses along Main Street and Broad Street, on lath and plaster walls with full basements and steep original rafter attics. Wall cavities behind that original plaster are frequently empty, and the closed attic construction on many of the largest homes limits blown-in access from above. A drill-and-fill retrofit through the exterior siding is the common approach that avoids disturbing the original plaster. Bexley's eastern edge runs along Alum Creek on the flat glacial till plain typical of Franklin County, without the ravine lots found along the Olentangy corridor to the north. That housing profile shapes our typical scope for open-cell spray foam in Bexley. We spec open-cell at the right surfaces only, such as interior partition walls for sound assemblies, attic floors over vented attics, and other vapor-permissive applications.
Open-cell foam in Franklin County is most common on vented attic floors across Whitehall's postwar ranch belt and Blacklick's post-1995 subdivisions, and on interior partition walls for sound dampening in the denser pre-war streetcar suburbs like Bexley and Clintonville.
Open-cell foam does not function as a vapor retarder; in Climate Zone 5A, it should never be sprayed directly to roof decks unless paired with a separate vapor-control strategy designed by the project envelope engineer. Permitting in Bexley routes through the local OH building department, and Climate Zone 5A R-value targets apply across the entire Columbus metro.
- County
- Franklin, OH
- Predominant era
- Pre-1950 (plaster walls, stone foundations)
- Climate zone
- IECC 5A (cold mixed-humid)
- Service category
- Open-cell (R-3.7/inch, vapor-permeable)