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WHY US?
WHY US?
Western Insulation provides insulation services to clients in Galway, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon, Clare, Tipperary, Westmeath, Longford, Leitrim, Offaly and Sligo
OUR STORY
We have been operating for over 20 years in the home and commercial insulation sector. As a result, we have completed thousands of projects for homes, churches and commercial premises all over Ireland.
We have a fleet of 14 vans and trucks occupied by our team of over 25 experience installers. All of our work is carried out by ourselves. None of our work is subcontracted.
OUR AWARDS
Built in 1958, the Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, more commonly known as Galway Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral that suffered from a huge condensation problem until spray foam insulation was used to help rectify the problem.
The cathedral is one of the city’s most impressive buildings. Built on the site of the old city prison, it evokes a Renaissance style and features a large dome and barrel-shaped roof.
The unique design of the roof plagued the cathedral with a significant condensation problem. The church sought to address the condensation problem as well as improve thermal and acoustic properties while preserving the building itself.
Western Insulation
was selected to address the condensation, thermal and acoustic problems affecting the cathedral.
Our team worked with the project architect to help them understand the significant performance advantages of water blown light density spray foam over a chemically blown closed cell product. The benefit of vapour diffusion and bi-directional drying convinced the architect that open cell light density spray foam insulation was a superior choice.
Around 14 sets of the required insulation were applied to the unique barrel- shaped roof. The condensation issues have now been resolved with thermal and acoustic performance properties also resolved by the high performance foam insulation material. The work on Galway Cathedral did receive SEAI approval (Sustainable Authority of Ireland) and funding.
