MandoMan |
04-12-2024 07:32 AM |
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Originally Posted by DALEPQ
(Post 2320518)
Our garage door faces West. Have put in insulation panels , that definitely help reduce heating.
I have seen several garage doors that have bottom vents.
Do these actually provide any benefits to helping keep the garage cooler??
Thanks in advance.
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My garage door faces East, and it got horribly hot in the summer, even without bringing in a hot car. I installed TWO forms of insulation in the door: foam panels purchased at Lowe’s and foil-backed bubble wrap with a white front. (I ordered the second on line, then found out about the first and thought it might be better, and ended up with two systems, so I used them.)
Installation was made much harder by the many steel beams that secure the door in case of a hurricane. Those all have to be removed. An electric screw gun didn’t work well for that, but an electric impact wrench worked very well. The bubble wrap probably doesn’t help much, but it covers the entire backs of all of the steel garage door panels. The project took me three days, working three or four hours a day.
Before, if I touched the steel door on the inside at 10 am, it just about burned me. Now, it feels slightly warm. I would estimate that the garage is a good 20 degrees cooler now in the summer. In mid summer, that might still be 95°, but that’s better than 115°. In my first home in The Villages, I had a big garage to attic fan installed with two air vents in the door. But that fan drew quite a bit of electricity, and it was sucking in hot air from near the concrete outside the door. Without the door being insulated, it wasn’t much help. Even with just using the screen door while the garage door was open, the garage might still be 95° if the outdoor temp was 95° and the fan was on.
Now, in my new home in The Villages, my washer and dryer are in the garage, but it’s bearable, as I only need to be out there one or two minutes at a time. If I need to do some woodworking in the garage, I do it about 8 am, in the shade, with the garage door open.
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