Warming the garage door with your own hands

For every motorist an important factor is a comfortable and warm garage, but this requires a reliable gate that will keep warm, do not miss the cold and damp.

To achieve this comfort - about the insulation of the garage door, you need to think in advance.

Insulation technology

After studying the instructions given below, you will learn how to insulate the garage doors.

Preparatory work for

Before mounting the heater, it is necessary to make measurements of the area of ​​the gate structure to determine the total volume of the insulation surface.

Warming the garage door with your own hands begins with cleaning the surface of the metal from dirt, dust and other contaminants.

The garage door is laundered from dirt and wiped dry.

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Next, it is necessary to seal all cracks and holes with mounting foam, and after the foam is completely hardened, remove all of its protruding excess with a knife.

Insulation material marking

The marking of the chosen insulation is carried out depending on the area and structure of the garage door structure.

The full use of all insulation sheets, excluding joints and seams between the slabs, is considered an ideal layout option, but how to insulate the garage doors from the inside without excess material?

To do this, you must immediately use whole sheets of insulation, and the remaining space can be sealed with pieces of foam.

During the cutting of the heater, it is recommended to take into account the stiffeners of the gate, because the corners of the material can protrude strongly above the surface of the blade.

The selected insulation is cut at an angle to the required thickness.

Insulation fastener

It is recommended to use polyurethane glue as a fixing material.

If you have never used such foam, then work with it will only delight you, because the installation is easy, fast and reliable.

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The main advantage of this adhesive is the quality of the mounting foam.

The method of application is quite simple: the glue-foam is applied to the surface of the insulation, and after 5 minutes of waiting, the sheet with the applied material is glued to the cleaned surface of the gate.

It is recommended to start the installation of insulation sheets from the bottom of the gate structure. The first sheet must be glued without pressing strongly against the surface, as the foam structure can collapse.

After installing the first sheet, the following are glued next to a standard gap of about 1 cm.

With the help of a mounting foam or sealant, the seams that formed between the insulation sheets are filled.

After the final drying of the adhesive foam( approximately 1 hour), the seams and joints between the insulation sheets can be sealed with foam.

The remaining excess foam is removed with a knife. To insulate the metal garage doors looked more attractive, the insulated heater can be finished with a lining.

Which material should I choose?

To learn how to properly insulate a garage door, read the following tips.

The material for the insulation of garage doors is selected only based on price and quality factors.

To insulate the garage doors with your own hands, you need to choose the right material, while carefully analyzing all the nuances.
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All material for thermal insulation differs by the method of installation, by thermal insulation and service life.

All parts are taken into account when selecting, for example, one heater is supplied to moisture and the other is completely waterproof.

To understand what is better to insulate garage doors, you need to familiarize yourself with the most popular materials.

Foam insulation

Insulation of the garage door with foam plastic is the simplest and inexpensive way to save heat in the garage.

Finished sheets are fastened with plastic dowels to the structure.

Polyfoam as a heater is very practical, it is resistant to moisture, therefore, it does not appear fungus or mold.

Previously, many mistakenly believed that the foam is easily ignited, but today a special substance is added to the composition of the material - fire retardant, due to which this insulation has a self-extinguishing property.

Polyurethane foam

This type of material for insulation is fairly fast and easy to install. Polyurethane foam is applied to the surface of the gate by spraying.

Having a foam texture, it easily penetrates into all cracks, pits and humpbacks, leveling the entire surface of the structure in a single layer.

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Such a heater dries very quickly, does not let moisture and wind, has higher reliability and better retains heat than other types of materials for insulation.

Extruded polystyrene foam

Extruded insulation - a more expensive option for finishing. The way of installation and gluing of the material differs from the others.

The installation begins with the construction of the crate and stretching the film, designed for vapor barrier and moisture protection.

Mineral wool

Wool is a material in the form of fibers, which is made by processing special rocks.

This material has a low index of thermal insulation and poorly holds moisture, but it isolates the room well and does not burn at all.

Wadding is available in slabs or rolls.

In addition, such a heater is protected from moisture by a film or other similar materials.

A well-assembled structure should not have any gaps and gaps to prevent cold, moisture and wind.

In the garage it will be dry and comfortable, only if the gate will fit snugly against the wall.