Garage Attic Insulation Tips

You can buy insulation kits for standard metal garage doors or you can cut pieces of rigid foam insulation to fit each door panel section.

Garage attic insulation tips.

Does a garage attic need to be insulated. Don t insulate your garage walls and ceiling without insulating the big garage door too. Add weatherstripping around the perimeter and a sweep to the door of a walk up attic. Find a pre screened local home insulation contractor.

Put a piece of wood on top of the insulation to use as a guide to cut the insulation to the right size. Affix rigid foam insulation to the attic side of the hatch or door. Tuck the insulation in to make it easier to staple. This will serve the same function of keeping hot or cold air inside the garage as it does for the rest of the house.

Insulating the attic above the garage will help keep temperatures in the garage a bit more stable but it won t have any appreciable effect on energy bills. A contractor will come and open up a hole in the wall pump in a cellulose insulating material and then patch up the opening. Level uneven spots with a rake. If you already have drywall installed around your garage but don t have it insulated then blown in insulation may be the answer.

A much better use of your energy saving dollars would be to make sure you have at least 12 to 14 of insulation in the attic over the heated and cooled areas of your house. This will allow you to add the needed insulation. Staple the insulation all the way down the side of the stud. Add weatherstripping around the perimeter and a sweep to the door of a walk up attic.

The primary reason to insulate any part of the home is to provide a thermal barrier between conditioned heated or cooled interior space and the. You d need a thickness of about 7 5 inches of insulation to match the insulating value of a batt of r 19 insulation r 19 is a common batt value. Fill every joist space completely and evenly with the insulation leaving attic vents uncovered. When you should insulate the garage.

If your home s hvac system does extend into the garage then the attic above it should be insulated as it would for any other room of the house. Watch this video to find out more. With a helper to load the blower with insulation as needed start at the perimeter of the attic and work toward the attic access door. Use a utility knife to cut excess insulation so it fits the size of the stud.

A bag of loose fill fiberglass costs about 35. Keep in mind that the structural metal ribbing of garage doors is an excellent conductor of heat and this typically doesn t get insulated.