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Garage Door Insulation, Weatherstripping and SealsInsulating your garage door means more than just attaching some Styrofoam to the back of the door. Proper garage door insulation also requires good flexible seals around all edges of the door as well. The good news is, the insulation and seals are fairly inexpensive and very easy to install. Garage door weatherstripping and seals are readily available at most home improvement stores, while many online sources such as Amazon.com offer Garage Door Insulation Kits . The 4 Benefits to Insulating your Garage Door.1. Insulating is a great way to reduce your energy bills. This is especially true if the rest of your garage (including the ceiling) is already insulated. You may even qualify for an energy tax credit.2. By sealing the door of your garage with proper weatherstripping, you can keep dirt, debris, leaves, bugs, snakes, and rodents away from your garage. 3. A sealed garage door protects your vehicles, and tools from the damage caused by cold air, moisture, and rain. This is very important if you live near the ocean and windblown salt water is often in the air. And 4. Insulation reduces the intrusion of unwanted noise from the outside, which can be helpful to you if you happen to live on a busy street. It also reduces operational noise, which allows you to work on noisy projects without disturbing your neighbors. Should You Insulate a Garage Door in a Hot Climate?The Con to insulating your garage door is that it will help retain heat from hot automobile engines within the garage. This heat may transfer into your living space during a hot summer day. However, I personally found great benefit to insulating the metal garage door on my Phoenix Arizona home. The scorching afternoon sun literally baked the garage doors, heating the entire 3 car garage. Heat rises and the upstairs bedrooms above the garage were very difficult to keep cool. After insulating our garage doors, there was a very noticeable drop in the temperature upstairs. I would simply leave the garage doors open for a half hour after parking the car, and ran a box fan to exhaust the hot air out of the garage door (not recommended for crime ridden neighborhoods).Here's how to install Garage Door Insulation and where to find it. Be sure to visit our Garage Door Seals page to find out how to proper install garage door seals and the the different types available.
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