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Garages are notorious for being the junk part of the house. Every now and then, a forty-year-old high school dropout will inhabit a garage, but garages are usually filled with old tires, nondescript metal bars, a torn-up Wet Banana and clothes that have been “on their way” to the Salvation Army for fifteen years.
With that in mind, many may think that we shouldn’t pay much attention to our garage. We’re all fine and dandy as long as the family sedan can still wedge itself between the mountains of unused bric-a-brac.
The styles and fashions of 1993 might not be escaping the garage any time soon, but heat might be escaping through your flimsy garage door. It could be time to upgrade to an insulated garage door. One man did on an episode of Renovation Nation, and he could only be described as giddy.
An insulated garage door is just one more step a person can take to seal the thermal envelope of their home. Insulated garage doors are designed like sandwiches with steel on the outside and foam or polystyrene in the middle. They greatly decrease the heat loss of the home and cut down on noise pollution as well.
Some in the green community are unlikely to be excited by a product with a polystyrene filling. The IRS, however, has offered a tax credit to those who install insulated garage doors.
Between the savings garnered by decreasing heating costs and the IRS tax credit, an insulated garage door just might pay for itself.
This post was inspired by Renovation Nation.
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