Insulate Your Garage Door

All you need is sheets of rigid foam.

Insulate your garage door.

How to insulate your garage door it s easy to do makes your garage more comfortable. Wooden garage doors need rigid insulation like foam board while metal garage doors can work with any type of insulation. Garage door insulation can make your life warmer cooler and quieter. Save money by doing it yourself.

Choose which insulation you ll use for this project by considering what type of garage door you have. It ll cost you about 200 to insulate two 9 foot wide doors. 2 mark the door and place the anchors. The simplest way to insulate a garage door is with a kit containing either vinyl or foil faced batts or foil faced rigid foam boards.

Kits start around 50 and as they increase in price often. Or you can buy precut r 4 expanded polystyrene eps panel foam online one choice is the insulated garage doors kit from cellofoam. It takes two kits to insulate a typical 16 ft wide garage door. Just cut each panel to length and bend and snap it into the horizontal rails on your door.

However at r 4 per inch eps has the lowest r value. It lowers energy bills acts as a barrier between you and street noise and brightens an otherwise dreary space.