Upgrading your garage doors

07/10/2018

If you are thinking about upgrading your home’s garage doors in the coming days or weeks, you should consider the benefits associated with insulated garage doors. Traditional or basic garage doors feature a thin sheet of aluminum or a single layer of wood. These offer some degree of insulation, energy loss associated with these single-layer doors can be significant. Insulated doors look like other garage doors from the exterior, but they feature a second layer of insulation.

This second layer of insulation serves to maintain the temperature in the garage. Furthermore, insulated garage doors also feature rubberized weather-stripping around the sides to prevent energy loss.

During the winter months, insulated garage doors help to keep your garage door warm and comfortable. Whether your garage is climate-controlled through your HVAC system or boiler or it is not climate-controlled, an insulated garage door can help to maintain the warmth of the garage more fully. The temperature inside your garage can affect the temperature inside your home due to the temperature differential between the doors and drywall, so this addition can affect the comfort level in your home and the energy efficiency of your HVAC system.

During the warmer months of the year, insulated doors help to keep the garage door cool and comfortable by sealing off the warmer air outside. Just as insulated garage doors provide energy efficiency benefits in the winter months, they also provide the same benefits during the summer months.

You will have the option to select the style, color and other aesthetic features of your garage door when you choose an insulated model. However, you will also enjoy the added benefits associated with keeping your garage comfortable year-round and saving energy too. Take a closer look at the benefits of insulated garage doors, and you may decide that these are benefits that you want to enjoy.