Should you insulate your Lake Geneva garage door?

With the passing of Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer has passed. Inevitably, temperatures will grow colder and colder. You may not want to dwell on this fact too long just yet, but it’s coming. Though you can’t stop the approach of another Lake Geneva winter, you can take steps to mitigate the effects of winter.

One thing you can do is to insulate your Lake Geneva garage. If you keep your car in the garage, this will help make it easier for the car to start on those cold winter days while protecting the car a bit from the elements.

Maybe your garage is already insulated. But is the garage door insulated? If the garage isn’t insulated, and you decide it’s time to insulate your garage, don’t forget the garage door.

Garage doors are often made of lightweight material so the garage door opener doesn’t have too much trouble opening and closing the garage door, whether that describes you or a mechanical device at the ceiling of the garage. Thankfully, they make materials to insulate your garage door that are lightweight, too.

Insulating the garage door helps to complete the process of keeping out the cold. Adding a heater to the garage can make the environment in the garage hospitable throughout some of the coldest days of winter. And the insulation will help to keep the cost of heating the garage to a minimum.

Insulation also has a sound deadening effect. But, if you only have insulation in the walls of the garage the garage door is the weak link in your effort to ward off the cold and sound from outside the garage (more accurately, keep the heat from escaping from the garage).

It’s also important that the weather stripping around the garage is in good shape. The heat will seep out wherever it can. If the weather stripping is porous, the heat will find the leaks.

One question before you start insulating your garage door is to consider the condition of your garage door. Is the door 10-years or more old? Can you see light in the daytime coming through the gaps between the garage door panels? If so, there air will pass through those gaps, too.

If your Lake Geneva garage door is too old, or in bad condition, it may not make sense to insulate the garage door. You might be better off simply replacing the garage door.