When the weather isn’t great, many homeowners like to park their vehicle in a garage. If their house has a garage attached then it can lose masses of heat through it during the winter months. This is usually due to heat dissipating through an uninsulated garage door. The fact that most garages are made from solid concrete or some such material and they have more external walls than most other rooms in the house does not help but one thing that can be rectified quite easily and for a low budget is insulating your garage door.
Garage door insulation is not only cheap to install but it will save you money every time you have to pay a household energy bill. Coupled with this is the fact that you are helping to save the planet by not losing so much energy to nature. Installation couldn’t be easier and no previous DIY experience or major tools are needed to complete the job. There are a whole assortment of garage door installation kits available on the market.
Before you purchase one though you will need to make a decision on what kind of insulation you want as this will effect what kind of kit you buy. There are two different types of kit available: Garage Door Insulation Panels and Reflective Foil Insulation. There are positive and negative aspects to both methods.
The reflective foil type of kit comes in standard sizes for both single and double garage doors. It is essentially a large roll of reflective foil but some are double sided and some are single sided dependent on the operation you wish it to perform. Both kits have a bubble wrap center made of polyethylene will one side foil covered if you are just trying to keep warmth in during the cold months or both sides foil wrapped if trying to keep warmth in during winter and warmth out during the summer months. This design is very effective and will save money on your bills but doesn’t allow you to get the federal tax incentive.
Garage door insulation panels do qualify you for the tax incentive and are easier to install as they are just panels made of foam or fibreglass which fit into the frame of the door. So why not look at becoming more energy efficient and saving some money through insulating your garage door?
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