WHY INSULATION IS IMPORTANT FOR GARAGE DOORS

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WHY INSULATION IS IMPORTANT FOR GARAGE DOORS?
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• Insulating your garage door is truly subjective
  in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, people insulate
  for the summer heat, not winter cold. If your
  garage door faces south or west, perhaps
  insulation will stop that hot summer heat. North
  or easterly facing garages dont have to ward off
  too much direct sunlight, so insulation in these
  circumstances is for other reasons (noise and
  appearance). One thing insulation does NOT do,
  but is touted by others as doing, is make the
  door stronger. The insulation is foam, how can
  foam make steel stronger?! It absolutely does
  not. When you have a polyurethane foam with a
  steel back, its the steel back that makes the
  whole door stronger, not the foam.

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• California building code is such that if you have
  a water heater in your garage, chances are very
  good that you have 4 vents in the side walls of
  the garage that are designed to vent the gas from
  the heater. These vents mitigate a lot of the
  insulation value (R value) as air from the
  outside mixes freely with air from the inside.
  In this case, if insulation is important to you,
  dont buy the most expensive, highest R value,
  get a mid-range polystyrene insulated door. WHY
  do we recommend insulation? When the sun is hot
  and your garage is insulated. Then, insulating
  the door as well as you can makes sense.
• Also, when you dont like the look of a hollow
  panel door. They look very metallic and
  softening the inside with some insulation makes
  sense it looks good from the inside and stops
  the vibration of the door closing and opening.
  It makes the door quieter and it looks great.

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• Another great reason to get insulation is the
  sound reduction. The noisy door is quieted by
  the insulation in it. Either polystyrene or
  polyurethane have the same effect. Consider that
  when the sun is hot and the roof of the garage is
  visible and uninsulated, insulation wont make a
  difference in the internal temperature of the
  garage. Every garage door company wants to sell
  you insulation that you dont need. With us,
  its a practical matter.
• When the door is installed with a water heater,
  the lightest insulation is best. When the garage
  is fully insulated (including the roof), higher
  insulation is valuable. Insulation can also be
  used to protect the items in the garage from
  extreme heat. Insulation in California is not
  mandatory but it can be very, very nice.

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