All motorists know how important it is to maintain a certain temperature in the garage. Stable temperature has beneficial effects on the safety of the car and its technical system. The insulated room is no need for a long warm up the engine before the upcoming trip.
This reduces fuel costs and your time. This garage is more convenient not only to maintain, but also to repair the car. However, many motorists have no idea where to begin equipping the premises, do not take into account some important aspects. For example, users often try to drown is not insulated or poorly insulated garage.
At the same time it lost a lot of energy without receiving in return the required amount of heat. Therefore, we must first solve the problem with the thermal insulation of the garage, and then plan for the heating system. How to insulate garage door - this will be discussed below.
Causes and characteristics of insulation of doors and windows in the garage
Sometimes the car owners with a garage, not always with due regard to the machines are stored. For many users, the availability of the garage dismisses concern because they believe that in the winter it is warmer than outside. So whether you need to insulate?
The reason is that there is room in the garage tangible changes in temperature, especially observed in the off-season. Such phenomena can be a source of condensation. The body of the machine under these conditions quickly begins to rust, there are failures in the electronic system, which is fraught for safe driving.
The constant increase in humidity affects not only the car, but also on the condition of the garage premises (mold is formed, there is a fungus, and so on. Etc.).
Especially the problem of insulation arises gates and doors in case of maintenance and repair of the vehicle, as well as at the device in a garage workshop in winter. It is worth noting that most of the heat from the room out through the swinging doors.
There are several reasons due to which the heat losses occur:
- Basically gate made of metal, is much inferior to teplosberezheniyu concrete, from which erected the walls and ceiling.
- Due to the large area of the gap between the flaps has a considerable length and even at the smallest gap in the junction gate overall heat loss will be large.
- In one of the gate leaves are often installed additional doors, which also significantly affects the heat loss. When they are installed, it is necessary beforehand to imagine how warm the door in the garage.
Installing insulation is desired on the inside, since this will prevent vandals from exposure and reduce the requirements for its aesthetics.
The choice of material
For a correct calculation of the necessary materials, you need to know the exact dimensions of the garage door, door and characteristics of applied insulation.
Attention! To exclude the marriage and any other unforeseen nuances are advised to purchase consumables with a reserve.
There are no particular restrictions on the choice of insulation for the garage door. Wherever possible, fixing it on the inner side of the flaps and thus without significant weighting can be considered a material suitable for use. In order to know how to insulate garage doors and how to use an insulating material, it is necessary to take into account some of its features.
Consider the most common heat-insulating products which are suitable for insulation of garage doors:
- Fiberglass, felt, mineral wool. These products have the same parameters of water vapor permeability and thermal conductivity, as well as one and the same specific gravity. But use them as insulation for the garage door is very undesirable.
This is due to the fact that the dew point will be located inside the heater due to its small thickness, which leads to a permanent hydration in the off period. This phenomenon is inevitable in infiltration of cold air into a warm room.
- Plates made of reeds and peat. This heater is suitable for use in the garage, but it has a weak mechanical strength and moreover, the cost is quite high.
- Insulation of a polymeric material. It is cheap, efficient to use, but it is quite sensitive to external influences.
- Different types of synthetic material. At low thermal conductivity foam and expanded polystyrene are lightweight, easily handled and easily fixed on each surface.
Such thermal insulation are the most comfortable heaters to be mounted on the garage door. Use or extruded polystyrene foam, no significant difference for this coating does not: the characteristic properties are the same.
Tool and additional material
In addition to selecting a heater, prior to its installation is also necessary to prepare other materials and tools:
- Wooden bars face with equal thickness of the insulation.
- Screwdriver and screws.
- Drill.
- Slabs for cladding.
- metal brush.
- Primer.
- Antiseptic.
- Foam assembly.
Require decorative finishing materials, which can additionally be used as a thermal insulator around the gate around.
On this topic - how to insulate the door in a private house.
Independent insulation garage doors
After selecting insulation (foam in this case), purchased additional materials and tools ready, you can begin to work on the insulation. At the same time we should not forget about security measures and personal protection.
First of all, you need to make preparatory work:
- First, you need to cover all the wooden elements of the antiseptic. This will prevent the boards from appearing on them, mold and mildew. The inner surface of the metal gates and doors must also be built to prepare for better adhesion: remove the brush from the surface of the gate rust and dirt.
- The treated fabric thoroughly primed. When applying an antiseptic and a solution for priming apply them recommended in two layers: the length and breadth.
- Napilit bars so that they may be positioned throughout area flaps spaced equal to the width of the foam.
- Set crate, which, in addition to fixing the sheets of foam, will serve as an additional protection against mechanical impacts.
- Make layout and cut the workpiece heater so that the size they were slightly less cells batten on each side (for better attachment).
- Moisten the surface of the valves using a track sprayer or sponge.
- Apply the foam core as an adhesive and waterproofing on the surface of individual cells lathing.
- Install foam plates prepared in niche lathing and hold for some time to fix the insulation with a door leaf surface.
On a note! For mounting batten fittings and different in the case of large metal thicknesses, it is necessary to drill holes under the pre screws.
After installation of insulation to fill with foam all voids and cracks, and the projections on the edges of the excess can be removed only in case of complete solidification.
Final finishing work
When the main goal area insulated, the insulation is set around the perimeter of the external gate circuit and the box door.
Clarification! Swing gates, in fact, are two boxes welded and trimmed from the corner of the top sheet metal with an overlap for overlapping flaps together. Doors are constructed similarly, except they are smaller and they are integrated into one of the halves of the gate.
Procedure:
- Effectively apply insulation made of elastic or porous material with a large size of the cross section. Strengthening it to the edge of the gate and embedded door can be done either by gluing or by a metal plate.
- If the doors are built into the garage door, then they need to embed the locking mechanism. And in order to sort out how to properly insulate the internal lock in the garage, you need to take into account the extension of the locking bar (crossbar). For insulation lock or tissue applied rubber strip which is pressed decorative metal plate around the perimeter of the locking mechanism.
- As protection and aesthetic appearance of the whole inside of the doors and windows sheathed lining material. For this purpose, suitable sheets of plywood, chipboard, plastic, and can be applied planed boards. Here you need to cut a workpiece so that the joints of plates arranged on the bars and crates when they are installed to maintain the minimum clearances.
Attach sheets of such a facing material is most conveniently by means of screws. After completion of the work for the skin should be treated with the most priglyadnogo type: cover stain or paint.
At this warming can be considered complete. In the case of high-quality and accurate work, the garage door will serve you a long period without additional warming. Now for your machine is not particularly afraid of freezing winter conditions and temperature changes in the off-season. Cold air will not penetrate from the outside through a metal gate. As a result of warming produced a comfortable temperature will remain in the garage, which means that no longer have to worry about the condition of your car.
