Drive any concession road in Essex County and you'll pass a dozen pole barns. Most of them have the same problem: on cold mornings, the underside of the steel roof rains on everything stored below.
Why Pole Barns Sweat
Steel panels have effectively zero insulation value. When warm, humid interior air touches steel that's below the dew point, moisture condenses instantly. Around here — with Lake Erie humidity and big day-night temperature swings — that's most mornings from October to May.
Condensation corrodes the panels from the inside, drips onto equipment, rusts tools and machinery, and soaks stored hay and inputs. Fibreglass and vinyl-faced batts don't fix it; they sag, trap moisture against the steel, and make the corrosion worse.
What Two Inches of Closed-Cell Does
Closed-cell foam bonds directly to the steel and breaks the thermal bridge completely. The panel surface facing the interior is now warm foam, not cold steel — condensation physically cannot form. Two inches also delivers roughly R-12 and stiffens the panels, cutting wind noise and drumming.
It's a one-day job on most equipment-storage barns, it never sags or degrades, and it turns an uninsulated shell into a building you can actually heat if you ever want to.
Local Crew, Local Buildings
We're based in Leamington and we've sprayed pole barns across Essex, Kingsville, Lakeshore, and Chatham-Kent. Send us your barn dimensions through the quote form and we'll scope it fast.