Open-Cell Spray Foam in Clintonville
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. Clintonville sits within our service area for Greater Columbus and Central Ohio, with same-week scheduling typical for routine jobs.
Typical pricing in Clintonville
$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 Clintonville's a dense pre-war bungalow and Cape Cod neighborhood built up along the High Street streetcar corridor housing
In Clintonville, 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).
Clintonville's housing is mostly 1920s through 1950s bungalows and Cape Cods built up along the High Street streetcar line, with narrow lots, lath and plaster walls, and small unfinished attics. Wall cavities are frequently empty behind the original plaster, and many homes have HVAC equipment mounted in the attic, which changes where a roof-deck foam retrofit needs to seal. Drill-and-fill closed-cell foam paired with attic-floor or roof-deck work is the standard Clintonville package. Clintonville runs along the Olentangy River's east bank, with Whetstone Park and the Olentangy Trail tracing the river through the middle of the neighborhood. That housing profile shapes our typical scope for open-cell spray foam in Clintonville. 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 Clintonville 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)