Since a lot of us work in a shop that has a garage door, I’ll pass this along.
Mine is the standard double wide metal door. I bought 8 (4’x8′) rigid foam panels, 3/4″ thick from Lowe’s. The kind with a silver coating on one side. I cut them into rectangles about 47″ x 20″ and stuffed two of them into each panel of the door. Looks good, and works great. My door has 16 panels, so it took 32 rectangles of foam.
Cuts easily with a pocket knife. I think the price was about $7 per 4’x8′ panel. Does not add enough weight to the door to effect the door opener. No tape was necessary as each panel of the door has a lip on the inside which serve to hold each piece in.
PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy
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Good choice! My builder tried to talk me out of specifying an "insulated" double wide metal door, but I insisted back in '95. At closing, the extra I had to pay was $18.50. It amounted to inserting 1 1/2" foam between the standard double wall metal (hollow) door. At a prior residence I used similar 1 1/2" foam sheets fastened to the inside of a wood panel door, using drywall screws through the tin washers used for roofing felt. Those washers kept the screws from pulling through. Select the screw length carefully to keep it from exiting the outside surface. I recall the white surface really brightened up the shop.
John in middle Tennessee
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