Insulate the walls you actually insulate

Insulation is per wall, per product and per thickness, drawn at real inches inside the girts, with square feet measured net of openings.

What it is

Four products with their own defaults and colours — fiberglass batt, open-cell foam, closed-cell foam and rigid board — chosen per wall with a thickness from a real ladder (1, 2, 3, 3.5, 5, 5.5, 7 inches). Roof insulation is separate and inherits each roof face's own plane.

Also called: wall insulation · spray foam · batt · closed cell · insulate one wall · roof insulation

See it
Insulate the walls you actually insulate
CustomerBuildingAmountStatus
Ronan PetschBarndominium$10,130Paid
Delia Yoder40×64 Shop$9,180Paid
Sutter KlineHobby Shop$3,100Sent
Delia YoderRiding Arena$12,410Sent
Gideon AltEquipment Storage$1,770Open
Insulation layer showing 5.5in batt in the girt cavities on two walls and none on the equipment bay wall, with the gable silhouette filled correctly. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1Any wall with no override follows the building default; a per-wall override records the departure.
  2. 2The fill is drawn to scale inside the girt cavity, stopping short of the eave and sitting inside the post line so it never shares a face with a post, jamb or strut.
  3. 3Gable-family end walls carry the SAME silhouette as the steel gable skin — triangle, gambrel pentagon, monitor profile or shed — with the rakes pulled in so the fill never flashes at the eave or barge.
  4. 4Roof insulation copies each steel face and seats under it along that face's own inward normal, rather than reconstructing midpoints independently.
  5. 5Measured square feet are net of openings; the note reports per-wall thickness, product and board-feet.
  6. 6The right-click menu offers this-wall toggle, product, thickness and an all-walls toggle, each showing the priced quantity.
Why we built it

Post-frame shops routinely insulate the heated shop or the living end and leave the equipment bay, the lean-to, or a gable that is mostly overhead door uninsulated, and a single building-wide toggle cannot express the job being sold — so it gets quoted wrong in both directions. Insulation is chosen per wall and per roof section. It is drawn at its real thickness rather than labelled with an R-value, so a customer standing inside can see what the upgrade takes out of the room, and the fill sits inside the steel's own plane rather than being rebuilt separately, which is what once painted a yellow slab across the outside of the building.

The problem
  • All-or-nothing insulation that cannot describe a real job.
  • Insulation area guessed rather than measured net of openings.
Sound familiar?
What you get
Per-wall, per-product, per-thickness pricing off measured area.
Board-feet reported for the foam contractor.
The customer can see the cavity fill at real thickness.

See it on your own jobs

Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.

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