There’s a heatwave happening pretty much all over. Whether it is making your area a lovely crisp 65 when you’re used to colder this time of year or a balmy 80, winter it seems is ending a bit early this year. What better time then to think about your energy bill right? Prices on gas and natural gas continue to fall, but who knows how long that will last. If you also enjoy minimizing your carbon footprint there is no time like the present to think about lessening your energy usage by upping the role your garage door plays in keeping your home’s temperature constant. When it comes to your garage door there are really three things that can help to keep your home from using so much energy. There is the door itself, the insulation and the weather stripping or seal. The garage is a large room and in some cases may be the largest most open room i your home. This means that there is a large amount of air in the room and this can be used to create a pretty nice buffer zone actually to keep your home’s temperature relatively constant. Heat and cold both will move in and out of your home, especially through drafty areas in your home which is why minimizing them is a very good idea.

Garage doors are important for a variety of a reasons, they are one of the best investments you can make while performing quite a few functions to you. The cost is low and the utility is high, it’s all stuff you’ve undoubtedly heard before, so what makes your garage door such a good investment? Why is this door really any better than your front door or even your back door? Well if those are the questions you find yourself asking then we’ve got the answers. If you haven’t got a garage door yet and are trying to think about why you should put any amount of money into it this article might help shed some light on the idea for you. If you have already got a garage door and just want to pat yourself on the back for how great of an idea it was to get a garage door then this will work to. Finally if you just want to spend a few minutes’ time to appreciate your garage door for all of the things it does to make your life a little easier then this article is for you too. Pretty much anyone with a garage door could use a good read of this article.

Last time we took a look at all of the things to think about when you are thinking about your noise reduction needs, in relation to your garage and of course garage doors. It is a surprisingly complex problem with a number of different possible solutions. From the natural noise reduction that wooden garage doors provide to the built in insulation used for metal garage doors like aluminum or steel ones there are a lot of different choices and it can often be dizzying. The good news is that if you take a look at that article the information is largely similar for when it comes to reducing the temperature exchange for your garage door. And that is exactly what we are going to do in this article. We will be looking at the relationship between the two effects of insulation and focusing mainly on insulating against the heat or cold moving through your garage door. One of the main reasons that many of us look at insulating our garage door is because of the amount of heat that may escape through our garage doors and the amount of cool air that may escape during the hotter months. Either way it seems that our garages just don’t do a good enough job compared to the other walls, windows and doors in our house, but that is where your garage door’s insulation comes into play. One of the main reasons for focusing on your garage’s temperature is because you have a room above your garage. If you have an occupied room above your garage they may complain about the heat or lack thereof because the garage is too hot or cold. In order to fix this you can further insult that room and its floor but you will most likely need to look at insulating your garage door more efficiently.

Garage door insulation is important for a variety of reasons. There are also a few different types of garage door insulation so keeping track of them can be a bit of a headache, but hopefully with a little more knowledge of the different types of insulation and what they can do for you it will all become clearer. With that said it’s probably pretty obvious as to what this article is going to be about, if you guess garage door insulation then you are correct. There are really three different types of garage door insulation to talk about, there is natural insulation that comes naturally from the materials used, built-in or installed insulation and aftermarket insulation. Of all three they really go in order of efficiency that way. Natural insulation is obviously the most efficient, built in is slightly less efficient and then after market insulation is usually less efficient than that. Then there is the case of the two different types of insulation, there is temperature which should seem obvious as well as sound which again is relatively self explanatory. In some ways these two things have a lot in common, but they also have some differences so it is important to take those into account when you are thinking about which one is most important to you or if they are equally so. In this article we will be focusing on noise reduction, but be on the look out for another article in the near future about temperature control.