Spray Foam Insulation in Altoona, IA

Altoona's growth rings

Altoona sits about eight miles east of downtown Des Moines where I-80 meets U.S. 65, best known regionally for Adventureland, Prairie Meadows and the large data center campus on its east side. The original town near 8th Street and the rail line holds the older housing, about 10 percent of the city's stock built before 1960 per the Census Bureau's 2020-2024 American Community Survey. The 1970s through 1990s subdivisions ring that core, and roughly 47 percent of Altoona's approximately 8,800 housing units have gone up since 2000, with the median year built at 1998.

That spread means an Altoona job can be a 1920s house with an open attic floor and a stone-and-block basement, a 1980s split-level with a vented crawl, or a 2015 two-story with a bare basement the owner wants to finish.

Wind, snow and the east-side exposure

Altoona's newer subdivisions sit on open ground with little mature tree cover, and the northwest wind that drives Central Iowa's winter comes across farmland unbroken. Wind pressure pushes air through the leeward side of a house and pulls it out the windward attic vents, which magnifies whatever leaks the attic floor and rim joist already have. A tight ceiling plane and a sealed rim matter more in an exposed subdivision than in a sheltered old neighborhood.

Pole buildings east of town

The acreages between Altoona, Bondurant and Mitchellville have a lot of post-frame shops and machine sheds. Bare steel roofs there condense and drip every winter. Closed-cell foam on the roof panels and walls stops it and makes the building heatable. Tell us how you use the building and we will scope the foam thickness to that use, along with the thermal barrier or coating requirement for an occupied shop.