Many of you have brought out good points and let me add another to
this thread. My Moms old house was just that well built and old the
house was set into a side hill and the cellar wall was like a laid up
stone wall . well that big old house used to house ten people and it
was drafty as the dickens. at that time a salesman came around and
again i think it was the early 70's. long after I had left home. they,
my Mom and stepfathr bought the deal and a good one it was. they were
given 30 days to make any changes they wanted to do with wiring which
ran in the walls and keep in mind that old house had some b x cable
wiring and some old cloth type covered wiring. . so this foam was
pumped in from the highest spots so I was told and then of course
under a big living room window and under some others. the foam r ain
down thru the wall s until it began dr ipping in t he cellar or what we
called a back kitchen. . as kids we would take our clean clothes to bed
with us and get dressed under the sheets in the winter. that is how cold
it got. but after that foam job . well it was entirely much warmer in
the winter and cooler in the summer. I have no other answers and it
seemed that someplace in that time frame out near
buffalo many houses got a similar but yet different foam which cause
d many to get sick. some of you will have more information but there is
today many different types of insulation which can be blown in and or
pumped in but always always do your re search first. one last comment
is read a contract or have it read to you more than once. when we had
this current place insluated with the wrap around foam sheets. they
were supposed to reapair any bad wood. yeah rig ht. they got around
that as he said " read your contract" only to replace bad wood if it
appear s to cause structural damage. . Lee
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