Spray Foam Insulation in Cooper, TX

Spray Foam Insulation in Cooper deals with prairie weather at its hottest. Wikipedia lists Cooper's average July temperature at 92F, a record high of 115F set in 1969, a record low of -4F in 1989, and about 47 inches of precipitation a year, with October typically the wettest month. Cooper is the Delta County seat, between the north and south forks of the Sulphur River, with 1,911 residents at the 2020 census.

A town that peaked a century ago

Cooper was founded around 1870, incorporated in 1881, and reached its largest population, 2,563, in 1925, before a failed cotton crop and the Great Depression hit the county early. That means a good share of the housing is old, much of it frame houses on piers. Those houses usually have little in the walls, thin or no attic insulation, and open floors. The attic and floor are the practical places to start.

Deep clay soil

Cooper and most of Delta County lie in the Texas Blackland Prairies, where the soil is mainly deep clay or clay mixed with dark loam. Clay soils swell when wet and shrink when dry, and after a wet spell the ground under a pier-and-beam house can stay damp for a long time. We look at grading and moisture under the house before insulating a floor, and lay a ground cover where the crawl space needs it.

Farm country

Agriculture still drives the local economy. Cotton, corn and sorghum were grown on over 100,000 acres around Cooper by 1880, and the county still has plenty of barns, equipment sheds and shops. Steel buildings get closed-cell foam to stop sweating and slow the heat; older wood barns turned into shops get air sealing and foam on walls and roof.

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