Most of Auburn Hills was built for industry. The parks along Brown Road, Opdyke, Giddings and Featherstone are full of pre-engineered metal buildings, warehouses, test facilities and supplier plants. Metal buildings have a specific and very common failure mode in a Michigan climate, and it gets misdiagnosed as a roof leak more often than not.
If Your Metal Building “Leaks” Only on Cold Days, It Is Not Leaking
Steel panel has essentially no thermal mass and no insulating value. When the outside temperature drops and the inside of the building is warm and humid — from process heat, from equipment, from people, from a concrete slab curing — the underside of that steel hits dew point and water condenses on it. Then it runs down the purlins and drips on your inventory. Owners spend years chasing a roof leak that is not there.
Closed-cell spray foam applied directly to the underside of the panel solves it structurally: the steel is no longer the cold surface exposed to interior air. Because the foam is applied as a liquid, it also seals every panel lap and every fastener penetration in the same pass, which vinyl-faced batt systems never do.
- Condensation control on roof and wall panels
- Continuous insulation with no thermal bridging at the purlins
- Air sealing at laps, fasteners and eave and ridge conditions
- Adds rigidity to the panel assembly
- Works in occupied buildings — applied from inside, no roof work
Full detail on our metal building insulation page.
Other Envelope Work We Do in Auburn Hills
Warehouse and distribution space where heating costs are out of control. Cold storage and temperature-separated rooms. Process areas and mechanical rooms. Parking structures and elevated decks — see parking structure insulation. And on the residential side, the subdivisions off Squirrel, Adams and Dutton get the usual attic air sealing, bonus room foam and rim joist work.
If the problem is the roof surface rather than the insulation, that is covered on our Auburn Hills roof coatings page.
Auburn Hills & Nearby
Auburn Hills, Pontiac, Rochester Hills, Lake Orion, Orion Township, Bloomfield Township and Clarkston. Every city we cover is listed on the service areas page.
Auburn Hills Insulation FAQs
Can you insulate a metal building in Auburn Hills?
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do in the industrial parks here. Closed-cell foam sprayed to the underside of metal roof and wall panels does two things a batt system cannot: it stops condensation from forming on the cold steel, and it seals the thousands of linear feet of panel laps and fastener penetrations. If your building rains on the inside every time the temperature swings, that is condensation, and foam is the fix.
Do you insulate warehouse and cold storage space?
Yes. Foam is the standard for temperature-controlled space because it is continuous — no thermal bridging at the framing, no gaps at the joints. We handle warehouse envelopes, cooler and freezer rooms, and process areas where temperature separation matters.
What about the office and residential side in Auburn Hills?
We insulate homes here too — the subdivisions off Squirrel Road, Dutton and Adams, and the condominium developments near Great Lakes Crossing. Attic air sealing, bonus rooms over garages, and rim joists are the usual scope.