When you try to insulate a garage door yourself, with items you’ve acquired from a local home improvement store, you will certainly lose out on some of the aesthetic value of a professionally designed insulated garage door. That being said, if you’re working on a budget, it can be understood why you’d want to do so. You will still get the value of a heat saving garage door as opposed to one which is constantly draining heat from the rest of your home.
Here is how you go about it:
- You need to get some Styrofoam sheets, ideally about 3 inches thick.
- Wrap the sheets in foil.
- Secure the sheets of foil covered foam to the back of your garage door. If the door is a roller shutter, this won’t be possible. Although it will be to a degree with sectional doors, although you may need to use thinner sheets.
- Open the door to ensure that the insulation doesn’t impede any mechanism.
Once you’ve done all of the process listed above, you should have a well insulated door which will immediately begin to save you money.