Are you finding your garage unbearable in the blistering hot temperatures of Roseville and the surrounding Sacramento neighborhoods? If so, consider insulating your garage. Proper insulation helps your garage stay cool and comfortable, plus, it’s gonna slash those hefty July air conditioning bills.
You might think insulation is a cold-weather thing – something for the poor suckers who live in Minnesota or Ohio. Not so! Insulation is just as important on a sunny, 90-degree day in NorCal as it is in the dead of a Midwest February cornfield.
Reduce Energy Costs by Insulating Your Garage Door Panels
It’s funny, because we all insulate the front door, but often not the garage door, even though it’s the largest opening to your home. But an uninsulated garage door just sucks in and traps heat. Large amounts of heat in the garage can then also increase the temperature in your home, especially if the walls of your garage aren’t insulated either.
Keeping your garage cool also keeps your home cool. When choosing to insulate your garage, you have a few options. You can either have new garage doors installed or try a DIY insulation kit.
If you’re ready to replace your garage door, steel or composite wood doors that are double- or tripled-layered provide outstanding insulation capabilities that are guaranteed to keep your garage temperatures regulated. Any hollow-body garage door can also be filled with spray foam prior to installation.
If you’re not quite ready for new doors, a do-it-yourself kit gives you the option of great insulation at an affordable price. Kits come in polystyrene or fiberglass, with the latter providing slightly better insulation. Some kits also come with reflective oil that further increases insulation.
How to Ensure Your Insulation Install is Tops
There are a few details to consider if you want to make the most of the insulation you’ve spent the time and money on. It’d be a shame to forget this stuff, being left to wonder why you insulated the garage door in the first place. Other ways to seal up your garage to keep it (and your home) climate controlled are:
- Weather stripping. Make sure it fits and isn’t torn, loose or brittle.
- Same goes for the garage door’s bottom seal.
- Make sure all other doors to the garage are properly-sealed and insulated.
- Insulate your garage walls.
- Repair any cracks in the concrete floor.
- Reglaze and caulk any windows in the garage and pedestrian doors.
- Make sure the roof isn’t the culprit of letting hot air in.
Insulating your garage door is a sure thing when it comes to ROI. You’ll start seeing it right away when the next month’s power bill is less, or when you’re sat on your couch and notice the AC hasn’t been running as often as usual. And you’ll certainly notice it when you go to get your car from the garage and it’s not 110° in there. All in all, an insulated garage door is superior to an uninsulated one. Questions? Just give SACS a call!