Spray Foam Insulation in Menasha, WI

Spray foam insulation in Menasha deals with a lot of old houses. About 18.4% of the city's housing units were built in 1939 or earlier, according to ACS 2019 to 2023 data, and the median year built is 1974. Another 14.8% date from the 1990s. Menasha grew around industry, from Menasha Wooden Ware in 1849 to paper mills in the early 1900s, and many worker homes from that era still stand.

Pre-war homes

Houses from before 1940 commonly have empty walls, balloon framing that lets air run from basement to attic, and attics with little insulation. We seal the open framing at the top and bottom, dense-pack the walls and fill the attic.

1990s homes

Newer homes need less, usually rim joist foam and attention to bonus rooms and hatches.

Two counties, one city

Of Menasha's 18,268 residents in 2020, most lived in Winnebago County and about 2,200 in Calumet County. Doty Island, shared with Neenah, sits where the Fox River leaves Lake Winnebago.

Costs

Dense-pack walls run $1.60 to $4.20 per square foot and attic jobs $1,000 to $2,700 by HomeGuide's figures. We price each area in writing after a visit.

Working in older houses carefully

Pre-war homes often have plaster and lath, old wiring and decades of past repairs. We check every wall cavity we plan to fill for knob-and-tube wiring and for blocking that would stop the fill, and we recommend an electrician when needed. Attics in these homes can have very little headroom, and some have floored storage areas; we foam or dense-pack under flooring where loose fill cannot reach. If we see vermiculite, we stop and recommend testing before any work.