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Need advice on insulated garage doors

9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago

I had posted this to the Garage/Workshop forum, but didn't get any replies, so I'm posting here with the hope that someone will be able to help.

Thank you in advance to anyone who can provide information. :-)

We have a three-car garage. Well, there's a 2-car bay with a door, and a single-car bay with a door. The doors are the same builder-grade doors that were installed when the house was built 25 years ago.

Anyway, we're tossing around the idea of insulating the doors. I know we can buy a kit at the local hardware store, or even online from Amazon or eBay. But is it better to just buy new insulated garage doors rather than to add insulation to the existing doors?

A vendor selling insulated garage doors was at a "Home and Landscape Expo" here in town a week or so ago, and he claimed that adding the insulating kit will make the door weigh too much for the garage door opener to function, But, when I've looked at insulated garage doors online, they all seem to (without saying it in so many words) indicate that we'd also need to buy a new opener from them.

Can anyone here provide the truth about insulated garage doors?

We're in Sacramento County, California, where it can get hot in the Summer and cold in the Winter, but we don't get snow at our house. (We're about 20 feet above sea level, I think.)

Here's a photo showing the garage doors. The house faces south.

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