Rehobeth started as an 1890s crossroads and didn't incorporate until 1996, just southwest of Dothan. If you're building or buying here, the envelope decisions are worth getting right.
Rehobeth began in the 1890s where the Cottonwood-to-Geneva road met the Dothan-to-Graceville road, and was first called Sanders after one of the two settlers who built at the intersection. A grist mill, a sawmill, a hatchery, and a cotton gin were the early businesses; the sawmill shut down in the Depression. The school that gave the town its name (a misspelling of the Biblical Rehoboth) opened in 1903, and by one account the town itself did not incorporate until 1996. About 1,900 people live here now, with County Road 203 running through town and County Road 59 heading north. The town park with its walking trail and ballfields is the center of things; there's no downtown block of storefronts, just houses, schools, and the roads that connect them to Dothan.
A house that's still in framing is the cheapest place to get spray foam right. With new construction insulation, we foam the wall cavities and roof deck before the drywall crew arrives, which air-seals the whole envelope in one pass and eliminates the gaps fiberglass leaves at every stud and top plate. In a climate zone 2A/3A house that means a smaller HVAC unit runs less and the attic stays within a few degrees of the living space.
The choice between open-cell and closed-cell depends on where it goes. Open-cell handles walls and roof decks at lower cost; closed-cell goes on rim joists, crawl space walls, and anywhere water could touch it. We'll spec both on the same house when that's the right answer. One caution for anyone building in Rehobeth: a foamed roof deck changes how the attic breathes, so the HVAC contractor needs to know before the system is sized. We'd rather talk to your builder early than fix a duct problem later.
For a finished Rehobeth home, the attic is where the July heat gets in. The Dothan Regional Airport normals put the average July high at about 93 degrees, and a vented attic under that sun runs far hotter, with your ducts sitting in it. Attic insulation with foam at the roof deck moves that boundary to the roof, and EPA estimates that air sealing and insulating attics and floors saves an average of 15 percent on heating and cooling. If you already have decent blown insulation, we'll say so rather than sell you foam you don't need. Buying a house here rather than building one? A look at the attic and crawl space before closing tells you what the previous owner did and didn't do, and it costs you nothing.
Not every house here is on a slab. If yours is over a vented crawl space, the humidity Houston County sees most of the year is getting under the floor, and the Department of Energy's finding on vented crawl spaces in humid climates is that they develop serious moisture and mold problems. Encapsulation is our flagship service and the fix for that. It matters just as much on a ten-year-old house as on a seventy-year-old one.
Rehobeth is a short drive from Dothan for us. Call (334) 466-1193 with the address and what you're planning, or fill in the form on this page, and we'll set up a visit, look at the plans or the house, and write a quote that spells out exactly what's included.
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