The building is already standing. The envelope is what’s costing you.
NFW retrofits the buildings Central Alberta already has — attics and crawl spaces, shop and warehouse walls, metal buildings, Quonsets, shipping containers and commercial roofs. Red Deer sits in Climate Zone 7A: 5,550 heating degree days a year, with a design temperature of −32 °C. That is the load your envelope has to hold every winter, whether it was built for it or not.
Or call (403) 350-2720 and describe the building.
- Google rating
- 5.0
- Google reviews
- 25+
- Insulating since
- 2016
- Red Deer climate zone
- 7A
A real NFW jobsite. Every photo on this page is our own work.
Retrofit first.
Central Alberta is not building its way out of a heating bill. Permits keep being pulled, but the dollars behind them are smaller and the work has changed shape: owners are improving the building they already have rather than replacing it. That is most of what we do now.
Retrofit is the harder version of this trade, and it is not a spec-sheet exercise. The substrate is dirty, the cavity is irregular, the weather is a factor, and there is usually a building in use around you. Which is why we say the same thing about every job we quote:
Roof coatings and recovery work“Material is half the story; craftsmanship is the rest.”
NFW Sprayfoam & Insulation
- 01RetrofitInsulate what is already built. Attics that have been settling for decades, uninsulated crawl spaces, shop walls that were never finished, rim joists nobody could reach the first time.
- 02RecoverCoat a commercial roof in place with Inland Coatings RC2250 or RC2000 instead of tearing off a deck that still has service life in it. Less disruption to the tenant, and the old roof stays out of the landfill.
- 03RestoreVapour blasting and pressure washing to bring a surface back to sound substrate before anything is coated, foamed or painted. Preparation is not a line item you skip in this climate.
Find your building.
A house, a warehouse, a Quonset and a commercial roof fail in different places for different reasons, and they do not get quoted the same way. Start with the one you own.
01 — Residential
Houses, garages and everything behind the house
Attics, walls, floors and crawl spaces in homes across Central Alberta — plus the garage, the shop and the shipping container out back. On custom builds, additions and renovations we work the details that batt quietly gives up on: the rim joist, the cathedral ceiling, the cantilever, and the transitions where an air and vapour barrier has to stay continuous.
Attic insulation
02 — Commercial
Buildings that have to keep operating while you fix them
Envelope work in occupied commercial buildings, and roofs recovered in place. We coat commercial roofs with Inland Coatings RC2250 and RC2000 rather than tearing off a deck that still has service life in it, and we insulate walls, ceilings and mechanical spaces around a business that cannot shut down for the trade.
Commercial & industrial work
03 — Industrial
Bare steel, bare concrete, and the equipment in between
Metal buildings, warehouse walls and ceilings, shops, tanks and vessels. On an uninsulated steel building the problem is rarely R-value on its own — it is the warm, moist inside air reaching a cold steel skin. Closed-cell foam sprayed directly to the substrate handles the air and the vapour in the same pass, which is why it goes where batt and poly cannot.
Industrial insulation
04 — Agricultural
Quonsets, pole barns and farm shops
An arch-rib Quonset cannot be strapped like a stud wall and will not hold batt insulation — the profile fights you the whole way. Sprayed foam follows the arch and seals it in a single pass, and the same applies to pole barns, calving barns and the farm shop that has never once been warm in February.
Agricultural insulationNot sure which one you are, or working on something that is none of them? See every insulation, coating and blasting service — or just describe the building when you call.
5.0 on Google, across 25+ reviews.
Public, on the profile, and all but one of them carries a reply from the owner underneath it. The three below are quoted from Google word for word. The rest are one click away.
Crawl space
“Steve and his team did a great job insulating my crawl space. Excellent insulation job and their work area was spotless. Highly recommend and will be using them again.”
— Jorgen Rangen, Google reviewBatt and spray foam
“I used this company for both; batt and spray foam insulation. The work was exactly what I needed and they were right on schedule. I will definitely recommend NFW for all insulation needs!”
— Damian LaGrange, Google reviewVapour blasting and restoration
“Steve and his team did an amazing job at restoring our hot tub trailer! He sent me videos of him knocking the rust off of our trailer with their vapour blaster which was super satisfying to see. They also professionally painted my trailer to match our company colours.”
— Tanner Drost, Google review
NFW jobs, photographed on site — no stock photography anywhere on this page
Named products. Made close to home.
We choose products for how they perform in real Alberta weather, how reliably they seal, and how they support your energy goals — and we tell you which ones they are, by name, before you sign anything.
One of them is made 31 km from Red Deer: the Johns Manville Fiberglass we install comes out of the plant in Innisfail, Alberta.
- GenykSpray polyurethane foam
- Canadian-owned and Canadian-made. Formulated for buildings that spend half the year below freezing rather than for a warmer market.
- Johns ManvilleFibreglass and batt insulation
- The Johns Manville Fiberglass we install is manufactured in Innisfail, Alberta.
- Inland Coatings RC2250 · RC2000Commercial roof coating systems
- Coating systems for recovering a commercial roof in place instead of sending an entire deck to the landfill.
- PolysourceInsulation supply
- One of the material lines we buy through for insulation supply in Alberta.
Everything on this page can be checked.
Insulation is sold on claims nobody verifies. So here is the short list of ours, each one written so you can go and check it — and then the three claims we will not make at all.
A company you can look up
Northern Foamworks Ltd. has traded as NFW since 2016. That is the registered entity behind every quote, every invoice and every job on this page.
A review record with replies attached
5.0 across 25+ Google reviews, nearly all of them answered by the owner. Read them before you call us.
Manufacturers, not adjectives
Genyk, Johns Manville, Inland Coatings. Pull the data sheets yourself and hold the quote against them.
Photos of our own jobs
Every image on this page is a real NFW jobsite in Central Alberta — a foundation, a Quonset, a floor system, a vessel. None of it is stock.
Numbers from the code book
Red Deer is Climate Zone 7A with 5,550 heating degree days and design temperatures of −32 °C and −35 °C (NECB 2020, Table C-1). We quote against that load, and we will show you where the figure comes from.
A single point of contact
One source of contact for the whole project — from the walk-through and the estimate through to the last pass of foam.
The other half of an honest quote
Three things we will never tell you about spray foam.
All three get said in this industry every day. All three are contradicted by published research, and a buyer who is specifying or tendering the work already knows it.
We never call foam fireproof
Spray polyurethane foam is a combustible plastic. In occupied space the building code requires it to be separated from that space by an approved thermal barrier. Any contractor who calls it fireproof should be asked what they intend to cover it with.
We never sell foam as soundproofing
When the National Research Council of Canada tested spray foam in place of glass fibre in a stud cavity, the assembly's measured sound rating went down, not up. We specify foam for air-tightness and moisture control. If quiet is the goal, that is a different assembly.
We quote the aged Canadian R-value
Closed-cell foam's long-term thermal resistance (LTTR) in Canada lands in the R-5s per inch, not the R-7 per inch that gets quoted from fresh foam. We would rather give you the number the assembly still has in year ten.
Send us the drawings, not just the square footage.
Architects, engineers, general contractors, facility managers and farm operators do not shop for insulation the way a homeowner does — they specify an assembly and then need someone who can actually build it in an Alberta winter. Send the drawings, the spec section or the scope, and we will price the assembly you specified rather than the one that is easiest to spray.
More detail on how we scope this work lives on the commercial & industrial page.
What we can put in front of you
Scope, assembly, product data sheets, and the sequence the work has to follow around your operation. If your process needs documents beyond that, ask for them by name in your enquiry and we will tell you straight away whether we hold them.
Ask for certifications, insurance limits or prequalification documents by name in your enquiry and you will get a direct answer. Nothing gets published on this page that is not current and documented.
We travel throughout Central Alberta.
Red Deer · Lacombe · Blackfalds · Innisfail · Sylvan Lake · Rocky Mountain House · Stettler · Rimbey · Wetaskiwin · Drayton Valley · Ponoka · Hanna
Farms, acreages and industrial sites in between them too. If your town is not on the list, ask. See the full service area.
Book a free estimate.
Tell us the building, what it is doing wrong, and when you need it done. Homes, shops, warehouses, Quonsets and commercial roofs across Central Alberta — and if you are working from drawings or a spec section, send those instead of a square footage.
Not ready for an estimate? Look at the work first