If I can prevent any of you from wasting money with "USA Insulation" of the Columbus, OH area, my life will be complete. Note, I cannot tell you their insulation won't work for your house, but I can tell you it did not help my house at all. Not one bit.
USA Insulation used foam that they forced into my exterior walls from the outside via holes drilled into the mortar joints. At a $3700 price tag. Its a steep waste of money and one heck of a buyer beware lesson. My interior walls are still unbelievably (and unchangedly) cold in the winter, and now I even have a harder time cooling my house in the summer. My utility bills are as high as ever. I have had no savings there, at all.
This investment will never pay for itself. And I can tell you that the foam shrinks. I happened to ask them to leave some of the foam out for me to see. That foam shrunk over time. Noticeably.
You see, the problem is I don't have that much space between my brick and the block / plaster walls. BEWARE that if you don't have much space between the two walls into which they are inserting the insulation, it can't do much insulating.
And even though I discussed this with the USA Insulation rep, he promised me several times that anything I could do to insulate my house would help. He even "guaranteed" that. They openly advertise that comfort and savings are guaranteed. But it is an empty promise. I later found out there is no actual guarantee.
When I did my initial research on them, I couldn't find anything specific, good or bad. I did find one article that said that if you didn't have adequate space between the walls, it wouldn't help. But I unfortunately ignored that one and only article, because I was so excited that I finally found someone (USA Insulation, Columbus, OH) who said they could insulate my house exterior walls and said it would help my house and my utility bills. And I did call the references they gave me, and those people had either been pleased or had not paid a dang bit of attention to whether the insulation had helped their utility bills. I sooooo wanted a warmer house in the winter. So I took the bait. But they failed me, and basically told me they didnt really care.
I had checked the BBB website, which showed that there were some complaints against them, although they would not reveal what the complaints were. And the complaints were resolved again, they would not say how. When I later brought my own complaint against them to the BBB, they didn't seem to care that USA Insulation is making unfounded promises and guarantees. I was offered a pittance to settle and go away probably like all the other BBB complaints against them.
So Im stuck with my house full of lemon and still have cold walls and high utility bills. So beware before signing up for the services of USA Insulation. There is no guarantee. And it may not work which they wont tell you.
Good luck to you all in your quest for a warmer house. I wish I had instead spent the money on a high quality fireplace insert! Now I haven't the money to do that.: (
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