12/07/2024
Spray foam application fills the air with a mist and sticky blobs of hot foam go everywhere. “Overspray” permanently etches finished surfaces such as windowsills and doors, and tools and supplies will never look the same. When a foamer sprays foam, he is dragging a heavy heated hose, and wears a hood that limits his visibility while supplying fresh air from a second hose.
This job site was not ready, but I assisted the customer to carry all the tools and supplies out of each room. Then I cut and secured plastic to protect the floor, windows and doors.
Our contract puts the responsibility on the customer for damage to any items left in spray area. When we move tools and supplies for a customer as a courtesy, these items will be a pain to retrieve from the stacks and piles they were placed in outside the spray area. Since we are not a moving company or storage service, the supplies may or may not be ordered by type. So we ask our customers to have their tradesman clear out all the bundles of electrical wires, the extra pvc pipes, random stacks of lumber, boxes of hardware, all of it—off the floors and out of the wall cavities before we come. We can’t just throw plastic over a stack of stuff in the corner. The feet of the ladder and the spray hose gets dragged over every inch of the floor and the plastic cannot be guaranteed to stay in place if it’s not tightly stapled or taped to all the edges and corners of the room.
