" The average home has over 2000 linear feet of cracks and gaps. Now, through these cracks and gaps, largely around doors and windows, a lot of air can infiltrate into or exfiltrate out of a structure. In fact, some experts believe that as much as 30% to 40% of all of our heating and cooling bills are due to air infiltration. Well, there are a lot of products in the market that you can seal whereupon many of these foam products may seem the same, but actually, there are not. Today with me is Larry Rowler from Caymans Foam Product----"

" Hey, how are you?"

" and tell me why your product is different than the standard foam insulating products from the market?"

" Once you endorse a foam that expands triple the size of its input as does all the other foams, what makes a difference is the skin that encapsulates that. It emits the pressure so there's no pressure buildup. In most cases, when you're using the conventional foam, the 6 to 8 pounds per square inch of pressure that comes off of these just falls"

" Which is why they're through."

" Which actually spans this cup and what happens on a window on a door, it expands that window or it spans that door, so when you go to close the door or slide the window, it creates enough pressure you're not getting good operation on that door."

" And that's what we're seeing here."

" That's right."

" This is standard expanding foam."

" What this shows is it shows a triple typical expansion foam exerts 6 to 8 pounds pressure as it dries and expands. That pressure exerts on side walls, which makes windows and doors difficult to open. What we've done with window and foam is the fact that it can be, there's no gapping; therefore, when it expands, there's no pressure. It has 0 pressure as it expands and dries, which makes it safer for doors and window application. "

" Great. That's a very great idea. Now also, this is a fairly easy product to work with. I noticed that if you could just, you fill gaps and cracks and just paint right over."

" It's designed to fill gaps to stop air flow, but the nice thing about it is that the average homeowner will put more in and so it expand beyond where they think it's gonna expand. This shows a joint that we've created. We've spray foam into that joint and we actually over sprayed it on purpose to show what happens. As it expands, you get all the stuff that comes out and dries into a very tight film, but the nice thing about it is you can raise or cut it down, and just shear it off, patch it and paint it, which makes a nice joint, so you don't have all this foam sticking out, and people say, "what do I do?" they can patch and see it."

" Great. Tell me about the packaging. It looks like they get a couple options on how we can use it."

" We have 2 different packages. One's for the homeowner, the do it yourself for. This is what they call the straw foam. They come in and they patch the tip. The tip is this one closed up, and so they can come in and just shoot it. It shoots upside down, and they can put it any place they want. Then we get into the professional. The professional is what we call gun foam, and this is where the professional look; the builder, the contractor, who's doing hundreds and hundreds of homes. You screw this on. He has twice the foam, and the nice thing about this is with straw foam, once it sets up on a straw, you're gone. You have to get a new straw because---- then you have to clean it. You have to clean the nozzle to make it work. If it becomes a problem most people just throw it way."

" It's a one time use."

" It's a one time use, exactly. With a professional gun foam, the minute he stops this trigger it stops the action, so he doesn't have to worry about that. We have a cleaner that he can put on top of this cleaner gun and he can reuse this time and time again, so he can use this over a period of weeks without having to worry of throwing it away. So it's very cost savings for the contractors standpoint."

" And this also acts like a pretty good adhesive."

" Foam is an excellent adhesive. One of the things we always like to recommend is because it sticks so well. If you wanna make sure, you wear protective gloves and eyeglasses because if it gets on your skin and dries, you'll not get it off your skin. You will have to go to a doctor, so well always recommend that you wear protective gloves and eyeglasses, but it's got great adhesion to wood and metal, and all the different substrates that's in your home, so it's gonna stick and create that airtight advantage."

" Well, we can't do a demo. Describe for me how would you recommend a sealing around the window?"

" When you get into a window or a door, there's spaces, there's air gaps. That's where the air comes in and goes out, which is losing energy. With the window and door foam, you spray it in about a 3rd. You go from the back to the front. You just put about a 3rd of that depth on the foam and then walk away. It will expand and create that tightness and will fine all the little nooks and crannies where air can get in and out, and seal it up tightly."

" Without exerting pressure"

" Without exerting any pressure on the surfaces."

" Larry, what kind of coverage would a can like this give."

" The average can will do 4 36 x 60 windows or 2 full-sized doors as far as the outside perimeter of those doors."

" The number of cans for a typical 2000 square foot house?"

" Probably 4, 5 cans would probably cover the whole house, and then they will do a great job for them and really cut down on energy cost."

" Well Larry, great information. Thanks for being here."

" Thank you. I appreciate it."