$1,300 Garage Door Insulation Mistake! - watch this before you diy

[Music] all right so we are using this inch and a half thick insole foam this is by our tech it's white on one side and then has this sort of reflective uh panel basically just cutting these down into the width of the sections in the actual garage door and gonna glue them on with some construction glue i actually did try it without construction glue and it fit sort of or some of the panels but if you don't have it cut perfectly to the right size then when the garage door goes up uh gravity pulls them out so i decided we're going to use some of the liquid nails this is just a construction adhesive um we're gonna put a couple of dots on each section and hopefully that'll that'll do the trick so i'm gonna be cutting this styrofoam as you can see it's already cut because it wouldn't fit in my small car these come in eight foot by four foot sheets i picked this up at home depot these are about 17 or 18 each which means the total project i think needs three sheets three and a half sheets so it'll be just under a hundred dollars to inside the garage door and hopefully that makes a pretty big difference in the garage as it's getting much colder it's january right now and uh it's pretty pretty intense in this garage so i'm gonna cut these down is the first step like i said you can see it's already cut once so it fit in my little car from the store and i actually cut it just right in the parking lot they won't cut the sheets for you because they're not allowed uh technically i found an employee that did help me and he used something similar to this this is a drywall t-square that'll help cut a straight line so first step is to measure the distance between these panels which my garage door is 16 feet wide and about seven six and a half feet tall so these each each of these sections are 16 feet long which means eight feet which will be the perfect perfect size half of it is eight feet so 16 inches wide here so basically just cutting down the styrofoam to size a couple dabs of glue and pop them in the door there there's a couple tricky spots where this is sort of getting in the way we want to make sure we're not messing with that either and we're not interrupting the laser that that goes out to make sure nothing's tripping the actual garage door so when it goes down it can still go down so first step is to cut the styrofoam um not going to bother trying on any kind of table saw i'm just going to use a knife here so we want to measure the garage door just to double check here uh and yeah each section yeah each section is the same uh width so 16 inches on line one two three four sections times two because it's only eight feet wide uh the styrofoam is only eight feet wide so first step is to cut everything down do sixteen inches wide and then we will pop the panels in i'm going to be using this uh bread knife it's a serrated edge knife i'm hoping it'll work better than my little exacto knife box cutter that's just not thick enough so you want a blade that is longer than the width or the thickness of the actual styrofoam so hopefully this does the trick i'm gonna measure this out in the styrofoam i'll cut it right in half uh 16 on each side i want to make sure i'm not actually cutting through into any other pieces of styrofoam so i'm actually going to lean this up against here and i'm just going to do a score first square across and then do my through cut [Music] [Music] okay so you can see it's not the most perfect cut in the world um it's not that big of a deal since we're gluing it in and a styrofoam so make a giant mess and it should slot right in so just like that we'll put a couple dabs of glue on there i'm going to cut them all to size first and dry fit them first and then glue them up so here we go okay we got a couple panels dry fitted here i wanted to pause a minute and show my garage door has a internal locking mechanism you would slide that to the right to lock it from the inside i'm going to have to make a modification to the actual styrofoam panel to make sure that's not blocked so i'm basically just going to dry fit it here and make sure it's lining up in the middle and then beautiful thing about and one of the nice things about styrofoam is i can just press it and it should give me a nice indentation there so i know this is how far out it goes i'm going to cut a little section out of the styrofoam to account for that and same thing on the other side same kind of thing up here this pin for the track on the garage will need cut out as well and possibly something for the middle so i'm just going to use the bread knife over there and shave off the styrofoam that does not need to be there okay now that we have all the panels dry fitted or just placed in the door we're gonna actually go ahead and apply the liquid nails uh basically glue to get it to stay there um probably gonna tape this with some aluminum tape to to seal it a little bit better and i'm actually gonna be putting the glue on the bottom of i'll put on the garage door and then replace the panel in so it sticks exactly where it's going to go so here we go all right i have all the panels glued up you can see i have some pipes leaning against this to apply pressure to the panels that have more glue really important that you cut the panels to the right size i cut some of the panels with an exacto knife like a box cutter and it just didn't cut it perfectly so they're a little bit more loose and required more glue obviously the liquid nails this is just project construction adhesive make sure you read on the back of whatever glue or construction adhesive you use to see what the working time is this one is 30 minutes which means it's going to not harden for that long this is interior so it's not really supposed to be too cold so probably not the best glue for this specific project but it works the pipes are like i said acting as pressure against those panels i'm going to let that sit for a couple hours just to be sure open the garage to make sure there's no issues and nothing's falling down but some of these panels that were cut very close to 16 inches all the way across fit in just fine didn't really need any glue i put some in just in case and i put like quarter size dabs of these these uh liquid nails in a couple of different sections and stuck it to it so hopefully that helps definitely want to make sure you are generous with the glue the liquid nails or whatever construction adhesive you use otherwise it's just not going to do the right job so i'm going to go in next and do some aluminum tape on the middle seam to help that disappear and after that we're done i'm using this 3m metal tape aluminum tape it's called a couple different things the brand doesn't matter probably doesn't even need to be metal or aluminum tape but this is just what i had in the garage so i'm going to go ahead and use this to close up the seams all right so there you have it that is how i insulated our garage door here i am in my garage as you can see there's a completely different garage door behind me this is an insulated garage door so what happened was i put in all the styrofoam as you saw in the beginning of this video and when i opened the garage it went up about six inches and stopped so what that told me was the coils you can see here there are two coils or springs were not calibrated right so in order for the balance of the door to work effectively the springs had to be recalibrated because of the additional weight from the styrofoam so i got a quote on that from a professional according to google everyone says do not mess with that on your own so the cost to recalibrate it uh here where i live in columbus ohio was a little bit shy of the cost of a new door so the door was 15 years old anyway it had a some kind of defect in it bubble or a melted spot or something so we made the decision to go ahead and just get a brand new door so this is uh like i said steel insulated door it's it's steel insulation and then steel it's brand new it has a warranty on it they installed it in less than four hours and didn't bother me so thank you for watching this video all the way through hopefully this this helps you before you start cutting and putting insulation in there you will likely have to rebalance the springs or pay someone to rebalance the springs to lift your door like i said purchasing a brand new garage door is not for everyone per se but for us it made sense based on the cost to recalibrate it and the expected life remaining in that garage door so hopefully you you learned something can take something away from this video it seems like both options would be okay it's a definite noticeable difference when the garage door is now insulated and my all four walls are insulated and drywalled and painted so i definitely recommend it i think long term it will be i think short term it's worth it uh even just feeling cooler in here during the summer months and warmer during the winter months i don't have any kind of heating or cooling in here so it's just going to take on the temperature of the house if the door the door is open so the door leading to my house is typically closed but the insulation helps the temperature stay similar or have less drastic swings uh based on outside so the temperature outside right now is 83 degrees and in here it's about 70 degrees 70 degrees so it's much cooler my house thermostat is also set to 70. i've had the door to the house open a while don't tell my wife but it it really really does make a difference hopefully it helps with sound too for the sake of my neighbors but again thank you so much for watching hopefully you actually watch the end of this video and you can learn from my mistakes if you haven't already please subscribe to my channel and god bless you

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Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 21 2021