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Old 06-11-2022, 09:58 AM
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If you are responding to my thread, no, we didn’t cool the attic. Our builder only used the spray foam that was over 10” thick on the attic roof. There are 2 kinds of this insulation: closed cell and open cell. We had friends that retrofitted their attics with the open cell spray foam at a cost of $8000 for a 2400 sq ft, and their attic in the middle of a GA summer was also 70 degrees. There is no magic to this. The other benefit to this in GA is your furnace lasts longer because they are located in the attic. A furnace running in a room at 70 degrees will last longer than a furnace running in an attic at 140 degrees