Cottonwood sits in south-central Houston County, down toward the Florida line, a farm town since the 1840s. Metal buildings, rural homes, and a lot of humid air.
Cottonwood took its name from a single cottonwood tree standing when the town was founded in the early 1840s. W. S. Wood built a general store here in 1844, the post office arrived around 1873, and the town incorporated in 1901. It has one strange chapter: after a small earthquake in 1927 someone found what looked like oil floating in a well, a drilling boom followed, and it turned out to be gasoline leaked from underground storage tanks. Prospector J. R. Sealy did hit a mineral hot spring, though, and Sealy's Springs drew visitors until fire took the resort in 2001. County Road 55 runs north-south through the center of town and State Highway 53 crosses it northwest to southeast.
Houston County borders Florida on the south, and the farms and rural lots around Cottonwood carry the buildings you'd expect: pole barns, equipment sheds, shops, and hunting-camp storage with steel roofs and open framing. Every one of them sweats on a humid night, and the Dothan airport normals put overnight lows in the low 70s from June through August. Houston County's ground is sandy and shallow with pine woods scattered across it, so water drains away fast on the surface and comes back as humidity in the air, which is what a steel roof condenses.
Metal building insulation is the job that fits Cottonwood best. Closed-cell foam sprayed to the underside of the roof and wall panels seals the metal away from the inside air so there's no cold surface for water to form on, and it insulates at the same time, which turns a shop you can't stand in at two in the afternoon into one you can work in. We foam new buildings before they're finished out and older ones after the fiberglass has fallen down.
A house on a Cottonwood county road is likely on piers or block with a vented crawl space, and the Department of Energy is blunt about what that means in a humid climate: the vents let wet air in, it condenses on the framing, and mold follows. Crawl space encapsulation shuts the vents, foams the walls, and seals the ground so the house stops breathing swamp air. For an existing home here it's the single upgrade with the biggest effect on smell, floors, and power bills. If the attic is the bigger complaint, attic foam at the roof deck handles the summer side of the problem, and on a house with both a vented crawl space and a vented attic we'll tell you which one to do first based on what we find, not on which job pays more.
Spray foam is priced by area and thickness, and our cost guide lays out the ranges and the reasons behind them. What we'll tell you first, though, is whether the job is worth doing. A drafty old barn used for hay storage may only need the roof panels done. A house with a plumbing leak needs the leak fixed before anyone sprays foam near it. You get that answer for free.
Cottonwood is well within the Houston County territory we cover from Dothan. Call (334) 466-1193, describe the building or the house, and we'll come down, take measurements, and give you a written, no-obligation quote. You can also send the form on this page and we'll call you back to set it up.
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