Technical Construction Solutions was founded by Freddy Lewis, who grew up in a highway construction family and spent 15 years in the field before building TCS around foam and spray technology. That foundation gives this crew an advantage on air barrier projects that most typical contractors don't have: they understand the full building envelope, how air interacts with insulation services and vapor management, and what happens to a building when the air control layer is missing or inconsistent.
I remember walking through a newly framed commercial building near Nisswa with a general contractor who was frustrated that the building's mechanical system was already being upsized to hit the owner's heating load targets. The insulation specification was solid. When we looked at the envelope details, the issue was immediately clear: there was no continuous air barrier plane across the wall assembly.
The penetrations, the top plate transitions, the window rough openings, all of them were open to air movement, and the mechanical engineer had already sized for it by adding capacity. We air sealed the full envelope with a spray applied system before the exterior cladding went on. The contractor told us afterward that the mechanical contractor had reduced the system size back to the original specification.
That is what a properly installed air barrier actually does. It doesn't just reduce draft; it changes how the entire building performs.
If your building is underperforming on energy efficiency, or you are planning new construction and want the envelope detailed correctly from the framing stage, a free estimate is the place to start.
