Hanging with Hainsey

Spray Foam Magazine – Winter 2025 – Googling the phrase, “careers where you’re most likely to encounter a celebrity” returns exactly the list you’d expect. Getting more specific with, “careers most likely to go into a celebrity’s house” yields more practical but still predictable results—with personal assistants, trainers, chefs, and nannies topping the list. And searching “careers most likely to go in a celebrity’s attic” automatically sends the FBI your current coordinates. Just kidding! The results to that off-putting query actually get the closest to the best kept secret about how to meet a celebrity in their own home while getting paid to be there. The answer is to become some sort of home renovation contractor. Sure, you might not encounter swathes of A-listers every day, but there’s a higher-than-average chance you’ll one day get to rub elbows with a star while working in a trade.

Go Big or Go Foam

In August, Michael Clark and his team at Clark Spray Foam from Florida installed Natural Polymers open-cell foam to the attic of a sports titan who’d recently relocated to the St. Johns County area—Robert Hainsey, the center for the Jacksonville Jaguars. It was almost football season, and Hainsey and his fiancée noticed a nasty smell and discoloration on the vents in one of the upstairs bathrooms at their newly-purchased home in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL. Hainsey is neighbors with a salesperson from Donovan Heating and Air, an HVAC company who also happens to be one of Clark’s referral partners. After visiting Hainsey’s home, the HVAC crew found the source of the smell but needed a little help resolving the issue.

Donovan called Clark to see if his team could come by Hainsey’s home to take care of the insulation side of things after the HVAC crew fixed the vent. As a Jacksonville local and a Jaguars season ticket holder, Clark couldn’t say yes fast enough. He knew football season was right around the corner, and a weird-smelling bathroom should be the least of Hainsey’s worries.

“He’s our center, and definitely an asset to the Jags as he protects Trevor Lawrence, one of the best linemen we have. As a season ticket holder, it’s very special to me. My father-in-law has been a season pass holder since day one so he was tickled that we got to work for Hainsey.”

The rest of the Clark Spray Foam team echoed these sentiments and displayed their local pride through their high-caliber work. This job held more significance than meeting a celebrity or collecting a paycheck; this was for their city, for Jacksonville. Their idea was to spray Hainsey’s attic like the success of the upcoming season depended on it.

Working In the Home of a Legend

“There was a musty, nasty smell in the bathroom upstairs, and also some black discoloration on the vents,” said Clark. “It was from some damp fiberglass, and the bathroom wasn’t vented properly.”

Over the course of a single sweltering August day, the six-man Clark Spray Foam team ripped all traces of the gross fiberglass insulation from the 2,200-sq.-ft. attic and hooked Hainsey up with a new open-cell spray foam system by Natural Polymers. The six inches of open-cell foam in the attic is designed to succeed where the fiberglass had fallen short; by sealing air gaps while resisting the moisture that causes bad aromas.

Their time spent in the House of Hainsey proved a mostly easy day for Clark and his team, but everyone got their workouts in. When you work in spray foam, spending hours with your arms raised overhead in a cramped, humid attic is just another day at the office. Needless to say, no one was too surprised when doing a job for an NFL player upped the ante a little.

The spray tech installed six inches of Natural Polymer’s open-cell foam to the
 attic of Robert Hainsey, who plays center for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The hatch for the attic where they’d be working was right in the middle of a carpeted hallway, and they tried to keep foot traffic in the luxury home to a minimum. Clark described the team’s division of labor as “two moving around and four working on the rig and foaming.” And by moving around, he means (re)moving the wads of trashed fiberglass from the attic to the dumpster outside without getting a drop of muck on Hainsey’s pristine staircase. To do that, they had to cover the entire staircase in brown kraft paper, all while supervised by the watchful eye of Hainsey’s fiancée, Marielle. “She was watching watching us. It was fun,” said Clark.

Luckily for the future Mrs. Hainsey, his team was well-coached and already knew the playbook by heart. They treated the Hainsey’s home the same as they would any customer’s business or residence. Before long, her wary glances became friendly smiles, and by the end of the job, his team’s diligence had earned Clark a new Instagram follower and spray foam believer.

After removing all traces of the fiberglass insulation, the wooden substrate on the attic’s roof and walls was ready for the new layer of open-cell foam. A couple technicians manned the PH-2 PMC rig while the other two sprayed the inside of the attic with six inches of Natural Polymers foam. Two more helpers stayed within earshot of the attic hatch to run trash outside and guide the 250-ft spray hose to prevent it from bumping the staircase.

The spray techs wore hooded DuPont ProShield coverall suits and G-Tex gloves to protect their skin and clothes. To protect their face and lungs, they wore 3M’s full-face respirator masks with HEPA/carbon filters connected to a Tennessee Chill Box. And boy, were they grateful for the Chill Box that day, as temperatures in the attic topped over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

A stuffy attic makes for a sweaty day of spraying, but the Natural Polymers open-cell foam cured well in the high temps. When all was said and done, it was clear the foam was better suited to the attic environment and woody substrate than fiberglass.

Finishing Features

By evening, the Clark Spray Foam team had delivered Hainsey a triple whammy—a newly foamed attic, no more reeking fiberglass, and energy savings for days—all without a speck on that gorgeous staircase or plush carpeting.

Hainsey may have caught a sweet deal, but Clark considers himself the real winner; he scored a video clip featuring Hainsey to use on Clark Spray Foam’s Instagram.

“I offered him a discount, but he was like, nah, let’s just do it!” The Instagram reel shows Hainsey manhandling Clark with a playful shove off the porch before singing the gospels of spray foam. Prior to filming the bit, Clark had joked with Hainsey, “I told him, if you do this for me, everyone’s gonna see what a great guy you are, and it’ll really get your name out there.”

Either Clark’s just that persuasive, or Hainsey truly needed no convincing after seeing how much better spray foam could be in comparison to the old insulation. As for why Hainsey went with foam, his endorsement in the video says it all: “Better heat, better cooling, better insulation, energy efficiency, and better energy costs.”  

Whether playing professional football or running a spray foam company, success often comes down to the team’s dynamic. How well everyone jives can make a hard job easy, or it can mess up the entire flow. Clark Spray Foam has teamwork down to an art and spray foam down to a science, and that makes them fit to insulate the home of a legend using an insulation product that’s fit for a king.