$50 DIY Garage Door Insulation #2

[Music] okay today we are focusing on our garage door installation project bought a kit that is meant to do a single garage door you buy two kits if you're doing in a double garage door in my case it's 16 by 7 the cost of your average kind of entry level non-insulated door from any of the big box stores is going to run you kinda in that 750 range the cost of an fully insulated door is gonna start probably around that 1250 to $1,500 range so you're looking at a fairly significant investment to purchase the kit cost me a little bit over $50 I have a non insulated door in this garage and it let a lot of cold air through basically it was a big heat sink so as the temperature drops outside there's really nothing stopping it from getting inside the shop the way it is now standing here it's nice and warm you don't really feel the cold from outside and our temperatures right now are pretty close to zero so it's pretty darn cold overall spending 50 dollars on an insulation kit on a non insulated door in my opinion it's the most economical way to go if you have a non insulated door and want to add that extra layer of not just thermal insulation but also a little bit of sound deadening I hear a lot less traffic coming by I also don't seem to hear as much noise from inside the shop if I'm outside so that's an added benefit all in all much less expensive than if I were to replace this door with the brand new insulated door that like I said it's going to cost you possibly as much as $2,000 but I've kind of christ' about average price is somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 so either way a huge savings spending $50 to get my non insulated door insulated as opposed to replacing the door with a brand new door so that said let's get on to the installation but we'll give it a shot and see how it goes I've got my next piece cut what you do have to do is trim out a shorter piece to go inside behind your style so each door sections going to have those you cannot flex it enough to go from this side to the side inside both cavities the rest of them are gonna have flaps top and a cavity those would be easy to slip right in but these end sections on my door you adore may be different or a bit of a fan but so you have to cut a separate strip stick it in now this is foil backed on one side and just a white clear coating on the other side I chose to have the white showing out my grad just painted white so we'll stick with that I don't really like the look of this like this but some people might to each their own see if we make this one to fit in [Music] so as you can maybe see we have a brace running across the door and it is four inches down from the top of my section that's a problem it's not going to fit so we will either trim the panel lengthwise or vertically to make it easier to slip in I think we're gonna be better off going lengthwise in this case so you get that marked out and [Music] when you do cut this as you have to do multiple pieces they say to put a piece of steel tape on it which would be packaging tape for furnace ducting tape or something along those things [Music] [Music] now you might see that I'm gonna freehand this cut we got my line I'm gonna freehand it with a just utility knife some may want to use the straightedge to do this part I find with this foam it's not not too difficult to actually put your blade in on the line and just keep pulling straight following your line and you actually get a really pretty clean cut the utility knife won't cut all the way through the material so you have to get that roughly halfway so I make two passes then making two passes basically just bend it and it comes apart get a little bit of snow when that happens but not too bad all right got my two pieces cut [Music] my purpose is since I have to see them this together I'm going to put my factory edges together and put my cut edges out that way hopefully it blends together as best as possible as opposed to the two rough edges [Music] [Music] clear packaging tape will use to tape our team [Music] okay so I pleasured a high top and bottom panel and for my door each one of these panels is exactly the same size I could bury you might have shorter panels on the top and buck and the under door design each one of these is 20 inches tall which is tight at the fall we can't make them any taller and the foam is 54 inches wide my opening from edge of styled edge of style is 51 that said each side has to go inside so these hem panels are the worst of the whole door and the inside ones keep going to find out [Music] so my Styles the foam pieces to stuff inside of those two and a half inches so I have to do this twice which pain but it's difficult to cut a half inch piece off of this phone which is what it would be if I just went with the drop from my 54 to 51 leaves me three inches I need a half inch of that cuz I need two and a half so it's easier to just cut it twice the standard way mainly because you don't have anything to hold on to the break back for half inch when you flip it over and cut the backside that it allows you to get a clean cut on the oil side instead of ripping the foil layer which will do otherwise just fold it over play it in drag it down [Music] so the rest of this is essentially a rinse and repeat measure cut fit flexing that is needed and then we have an insulated door okay let's see what the palm temp is 53 garage champ is about 60 and forty four one six five two four point six so yeah roughly 11 degrees difference and then if we do something over here do the chat ball which is an exterior wall 57.2 all right got the next panel of the next column in and I've discovered the pro tip after fighting so much on that first section but I would give it a try see if this works and especially since I can't see the door so flip my panel over I scored it roughly down the middle and then I did break this side it's my visible side but I broke I can't say that that was the magic tip or the magic beam for the Beanstalk so to speak sure got that one in there a lot faster a lot easier whether or not I'm gonna do that on the rest hi it's James again just want to say thanks for watching if you'd like what you've seen go ahead and smash that like button click subscribe to see more of our videos in the future also hit that little Bell so you get a notification when we do release a new video and you'd be the first to see it thanks guys they say each one is good for a 9 by 7 ground shore make a a single garage door I've got a double mine is 16 by 7 instead of 9 by 7 so we are ready to start the other half of the garage door ok cautiously optimistic this new you're gonna work better than the first not that that went that bad but I did let's sacrifice a little bit and as long as it's a nice clean seam you shouldn't have any issues and shouldn't be able to see it anyway so or they still won't draw your eye and at the end of the day for me this isn't meant to be pretty it's meant to be functional granted I want to look as nice as I can I don't want to look like junk on my door but at the same time I'd much rather maintain my heat since it's expensive to heat and we're in the Midwest so it's cold a lot every day for like 6 months of winter not six months of snow though lately we just got our second snowfall of the year right here at Christmas so we've finished up our garage installation project I'm really happy with the results overall cost of this project was $50 and some change the packages were meant to do a nine by seven door you buy two of them should you have a sixteen by seven door or a double door installation was fairly easy had times of frustration just getting the panels to fit but all in all went fairly smooth it actually looks rather nice the nice coating on the top is smooth and moisture resistant so should hold up fairly well over time I'm anxious to see what the energy savings might be kind of difficult to quantify understand that but looking forward to having a little bit warmer shop and moving forward with projects [Music]

Channel: In The Shop With James

Views: 32,092

Rating: 4.6934867 out of 5

Keywords: Garage Door, Insulation, shop, woodshop, DIY, Warmer, cooler, tools, easy, glue, screw, project, weekend

Id: et8Mpk1v7JI

Length: 14min 39sec (879 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2019