The dude is spraying polyurethane spray foam in between the 2 x 6 wood framing we had built over the exterior walls of half our basement. (The other half was insulated by the previous owners of our home.)

This room – where our eldest son sleeps, or will once we finish drywalling and painting and putting in new carpet – is soooo much warmer now, it is quite something!

Yes, it’s true… we have actually BOOKED a job for the eco-renovations; let the games begin!

On Dec. 17th a crew from Jerry’s Insulating Co. comes over to:

• Inject Icynene Pour Foam (only used for plaster walls) into all four exterior walls of our main floor – from the inside, by drilling small holes in the walls

• Spraying polyurethane foam onto the exterior walls for the half of our basement that is unfinished [we have to first to build a 2 x 6 wood frame over the cinder block walls]

Total Quote: $5,240 (plus GST)

And … drum roll please…  We will get about $4,000 of this cost back from the fed & provincial governments combined. This federal grant table, below, shows the value we get for each area, and then double that to get what Ontario will pay, too.

Our entire home will be warm and toasty, at last – guests who come for Christmas this year won’t have to bring their slippers and extra sweaters as they always have. And we will save mucho in energy bills this winter …. All for the discounted price of $2,000 of our own money. Ca-chink.

Update on Earlier Post about Attic Insulation

Turns out we do NOT need any insulation done at all in the attic or the knee walls of our 1.5-storey floor!

We ripped up three areas up there, our home energy auditor swung by our place today to pop his head into the new holes to check, and: Clean Bill of Health on the upstairs floor. Yesss! Score one for the previous owners.