Spray Foam Insulation in Roscoe, TX

Spray Foam Insulation in Roscoe means building for wind and wide temperature swings. Roscoe is home to the Roscoe Wind Farm, which Wikipedia lists at 627 turbines and 781.5 megawatts. The town's climate data show a record high of 113F on June 27, 1994, and a record low of -11F on January 5, 1947, with a July average high of 94.6F and a January average low of 30.8F.

A railroad town

Roscoe was first called Vista, after a Texas and Pacific official. It took its current name when the post office opened in 1890 and was incorporated in 1907. Cattle shipping by rail shaped its early economy, and the Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railway, built in 1908, linked it north to Fluvanna. The Union Pacific line still runs through the center of town, and I-20 and US 84 meet nearby.

Housing

The 2020 census counted 1,271 residents and 550 housing units, 14.9% vacant, with a homeowner vacancy rate of 1.8%. Most homes are older, built during the town's railroad and farm decades. Older houses often have balloon framing open to the attic, thin attic insulation, and ceilings with no air sealing at all. In a windy place that combination makes a house drafty and dusty.

Rainfall and dust

Roscoe averages 21.21 inches of precipitation and 2.3 inches of snow a year. Dry, windy stretches mean dust gets into attics through soffits and ceiling gaps. Sealing the ceiling keeps that dust out of the rooms.

Farm buildings

With wind leases and farms around town, many properties include steel barns and shops. Closed-cell foam on the steel cuts heat and stops condensation drip.

The festivals

Roscoe hosts the West Texas Wind Festival each October and the Plowboy Mudbog twice a year. Neither has anything to do with insulation, but they say something about a town that makes the most of what it has.

Living with the turbines

Wikipedia notes that landowners around Roscoe earn $500 to $1,000 per turbine per year from wind leases. Some of that money goes into fixing up homes and farm buildings, and insulation is one of the improvements people ask about most. A house that is sealed and insulated holds its temperature through the gusty afternoons that keep the turbines turning.

Pier-and-beam homes

Some older houses in Roscoe sit on piers. Wind under a raised floor makes the rooms above cold in winter. Closed-cell foam under the floor and along the band joist seals and insulates in one step.

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