Garage door insulation can affect your garage door in three major key ways:
Energy Efficiency
Insulation has a great quality of regulating the temperature inside your garage, reducing heat loss in cold winter days and prevent heat gain in the summer, which absolutely lower your energy bills.
Noise Reduction
Insulated doors can definitely help to reduce the noise coming from the outside and also minimize sounds when the door operates.
Durability and Performance
Typically, insulated doors are much more stronger and have better resistant to typically and dents, which can certainly extend the lifespan and also to improve the overall performance.
Garage Door Construction
Most garage door manufacturers offer three basic types of garage door construction, which differ in terms of cost, materials, durability and insulation.
Here are the three main types:
1) Layer (Non-Insulated) Garage Doors
A single-layer garage door is made with just one sheet of material, which is usually steel, wood or aluminum, it doesn’t have any insulation, it is the most basic type of door and also the most affordable option too, however it doesn’t do much to block noise or help with energy savings.
2) Layer (Insulated) Garage Doors
Exactly how it sounds a double-layer garage door has two layers, a outer layer made of steel and a single layer of insulation attached to the inside, often made from a material called polystyrene, which helps in keeping the temperature in your garage stable.
This type of door is a step one up, offering better strength, better noise reduction and energy efficiency while still being reasonably priced.
3) Layer (Premium Insulated) Garage Doors
A triple-layer garage door offers an upgraded level of performance and durability compared to the two previous models, it has an outside layer of steel a thick middle layer of insulation and another layer of steel or wood on the inside.
The insulation in the middle is usually a much better quality material like polyurethane, which keeps heat or cold out more effectively and this type of doors is the strongest and quietest, but it costs much more than the other types.
There Are Two Types Of Garage Door Insulation
Polystyrene insulation
This material is very lightweight, it’s a rigid foam that often being used inside garage doors and helps to keep the garage warmer in cold winter days and cooler in the heat of summer, thanks to slow down heat transfer ability.
Polystyrene is very affordable and provides decent insulation, but it is less dense and not as strong as polyurethane and doesn’t add much extra strength to the door.
Polyurethane insulation
Much more dense than polystyrene and also more effective, it is used in higher quality garage doors and provides better insulation because of its better heat transfer, polyurethane also adds extra strength and higher durability to the door and makes it much more resistant to dents and damage, while it has greater benefits it makes the price of the door much more expensive.
