Is Your Garage Costing You Money?
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How can a garage cost its owner good money on a continuing basis? Simple really, if it is integral to the property and (as is so often the case) devoid of proper.
It’s pretty straightforward to understand what the problem is. Any deficiencies in your home insulation will guarantee a thermal exchange between the inside and outside air, or put more simply your temperature control systems will be battling against the outdoors. This is a costly way to fight a losing battle.
The point about domestic insulation is that in order to be at all useful it must be applied to just about all possible areas where heat exchange can occur. It ought to be clear that if you choose to properly insulate your roof space yet possess poor quality single-glazed windows then warm (or cool) air will just fly out of the window (along with your cash).
Likewise, well insulated and tight fitting windows and doors will be simply bypassed if the loft space or cavity walls have inadequate insulation. Temperature differences always find and exploit the weakest link, usually taking your money with them.
So back to the original point of this – the good old integral garage. Quite often a garage represents the largest single interior space in a house. Note the words “interior space” – that’s what an integral garage is. If it is poorly insulated then it acts as your home’s biggest thermal weak spot, set right alongside any surfaces (walls or ceilings) that are shared with other rooms.
You wouldn’t consider exposing any of the other rooms to the outside elements simply because you possibly didn’t make use of them as often. It would clearly compromise the temperature control within the remainder of the home and cause extra and pointless expense. Yet many folk embrace precisely this attitude with regards to their garage.
When it comes to the actual details of how to insulate a garage then pretty much the same materials and methods as are common to ordinary home insulation are used. The principal difference being the doors. Now most garage door panels nowadays are made of steel (or other metals) that is among the worst insulators known; in fact it is an excellent conductor and heat will pass through as if it wasn’t even there.
But all is far from lost; thanks to add-on insulation kits and new internally insulated garage doors it is neither difficult nor especially costly to very effectively insulate a garage door. The ready insulated doors are particularly suitable for people who have or want wooden garage doors. These look much nicer and have better intrinsic insulation qualities than metal doors, but still not close to contemporary domestic insulation levels. However, due to their greater bulk and weight it is near impossible to add on a secondary insulation kit and so pre-injected insulation is the way to go.
For much more information on this subject, check out these additional articles about wood garage doors and using a garage door insulation kit.
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