Spray Foam Insulation in Hitchcock, TX

Spray foam insulation in Hitchcock covers homes and a lot of outbuildings. Wikipedia lists Hitchcock at about 91.5 square miles, including about 31 square miles of water, at an elevation of 16 feet. The town was named around 1873 when Emily Hitchcock offered land for a town site if the railroad named it for her late husband, and it incorporated in 1960.

Homes here

Census QuickFacts reports a 68.0% owner-occupied rate and a median owner-occupied value of $188,300 in Hitchcock. Many homes are slab or pier-and-beam ranches with attics that have never been brought up to modern depth. Sealing the ceiling and blowing insulation to R-38 or beyond, or foaming the roof deck where ducts are in the attic, are common improvements. Pier-and-beam floors benefit from closed-cell foam underneath.

Shops and metal buildings

With so much open land, metal buildings, shops and barns are common. In Gulf humidity, bare steel drips. Closed-cell foam on the inside of the panels stops condensation and keeps heat down.

Attics in older homes

Many older Hitchcock homes have attics with a few inches of settled insulation and unsealed gaps around lights, vents and the access hatch. Sealing those gaps first and then blowing cellulose or fiberglass to depth is usually the best value. The Department of Energy suggests adding R-38 to R-49 where 3 to 4 inches are already in place.

Code zone

Galveston County is in Climate Zone 2A (OpenEI), where the Texas code summary lists R-38 ceilings and R-13 wood-frame walls.

Storm history

Naval Air Station Hitchcock's huge wooden blimp hangar was damaged by Hurricane Carla in 1961 and demolished in 1962; its concrete corner supports remain. Hurricane Harvey also hit Hitchcock hard in 2017. Homes that flooded should have any remaining insulation checked. Get a free estimate