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What Are The Best Garage Doors For Insulation?
There are some excellent insulated garage doors available nowadays for your garage space and also your home when your garage is integral...
Energy costs and a focus on insulating your home is now a serious matter with energy costs rising all the time
The increase in demand and sales for insulated garage doors has been enormous in the last few years and it's not hard to see why.
Now that garage doors with excellent weather sealing and insulation properties are readily available, older one piece up and over garage doors look pretty useless in comparison letting dust, leaves, rain and of course cold air in on all sides in many cases making your garage cold and filthy.
But which ones are best to look at for insulation?
Insulated Sectional Garage Doors
They are about the best choice for an insulated door for normal domestic type garage doors. The U values achieved can be very good if installed BEHIND the garage structural opening and also installed correctly with consideration given to the floor levels for the best seal possible and a complete overlap at the sides and head to act as a thermal break.
Hormann, Carteck, Garador and SWS all offer excellent insulated sectional garage doors
Hormann have been the first manufacturer to offer a further upgrade option in their "thermoframe" system to potentially improve the insulation value even further, up to 20% more efficient. They also have their LPU67 thicker sectional doors to achieve the U values for Eco homes
Insulated Roller Garage Doors
The term "insulated roller garage door" is widely used but is a bit misleading as it is almost impossible to get a proper and accurate U value rating on a roller shutter garage door constructed from an average of 24 horizontal double skinned slats all technically offered with a small gap inbetween each of them.
Whilst there is a definite benefit felt from having these insulated slats, not only for strength but also for some descent insulation, as they are on average 19mm thick, the installed roller door will have very different insulation values depending on many varying factors. Rubber or brush type weatherseals in the guides or on the head fascia, a full hood cover for the roll and how much overlap the door slats have to the sides and the head of the opening will all contribute to how good the insulation will be, but do not expect an accurate U value to present to your architect or building inspector. Also some cheaper roller doors do use considerably thinner slats than others so do be aware of what you are being quoted for with this type of door as many features are definitely brushed over in the promotional material.
Insulated Side Hinged Doors
Double skinned foam filled steel insulated hinged doors are the doors to look at with excellent design options and nearly all made to measure with a 'doorset' principle and all key components factory fitted before delivery.
These doors are definitely a very good option for any garage where the use is mainly for a workshop, office, gym, playroom or similar and whilst the insulation may be key to your choice remember a double skinned steel door construction gives a great opportunity to add in some serious locking to provide serious security. Look at our extensive range in our shop..
To conclude if you really do want to make your garage as insulated as possible then look at the double skinned steel sectional doors, all with the 40-67mm thick panels and make 100% sure the door is fitted completely behind the garage opening and now also consider the "thermal insulation" kit available from Hormann which gives extra insulation around the door perimeter to give one of the lowest U values for a domestic sectional door.
If a sectional door doesnt work for you then definitely look at the insulated steel hinged garage door options available.. Samson, Carteck, Hormann and Ryterna..
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