This Old House Garage Door Insulation

Garage door insulation can make your life warmer cooler and quieter.

This old house garage door insulation.

Insulating a garage door will help reduce energy bills and protect items in your garage from harsh outdoor temperatures. You can buy insulation kits for standard metal garage doors or you can cut pieces of rigid foam insulation to fit each door panel section. The garage door insulation by itself is a small but important step in protecting your house from noise fumes dust bugs and intruders. Yes if your garage door faces a very hot sun or very cold north wind.

Don t insulate your garage walls and ceiling without insulating the big garage door too. Carriage house door co. Plus garage door insulation can help soften street and outdoor noise. A sectional door the most common variety rolls up and down on steel tracks.

Doing so can cause mildew. Of polyurethane or polystyrene with resulting r values ranging from 5 to 10. You need to insulate the rooms directly off the garage don t try to insulate the garage itself. In terms of thermal insulation the roller door has a typical insulation r value of 4 9 to 5 2.

You don t want to insulate. Garage door insulation is an easy diy project. Counterbalances door s weight so that it can be lifted easily. It lowers energy bills acts as a barrier between you and street noise and brightens an otherwise dreary space.

That will mean thick celotex or equivalent on the ceiling and walls inside the garage. This old house general contractor tom silva explains the wide world of insulation. A sheet steel garage door has a typical insulation r value of 0 5 to 2 7. This project guide will show you how to insulate a garage door using relatively easy to install garage parts and insulation accessories.

I assume your house is more than 5 years old. The thickness of this insulation can range from a thin sheet of polystyrene to as much as 2 in. A steel door sandwich made of thick gauge steel outer skin a core of insulation adhered to this skin and a light gauge backing material of steel or plastic make a very strong but lightweight door. Model 305i in insulated steel with composite overlay trim.

Application that need more thermal insulation typically use foam filled sectional garage door which provide typical insulation r values of 6 1 to 6 4. It ll cost you about 200 to insulate two 9 foot wide doors. Anatomy of a garage door illustration by jason lee. Keep in mind that the structural metal ribbing of garage doors is an excellent conductor of heat and this typically.

The door shouldn t open into a bedroom. See below for a shopping list and tools subscribe to this old house.