Get the original top-of the-line Matador Garage Door Insulation Kit.
(Formerly known as the Falcon Foam Kit).
You can get their kit for less than $100, and if you live in the hotter or colder parts of the country, and you like to use your garage for something more than storing cars, I think you’ll agree that that is a low price to pay for the energy savings and comfort.
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Let’s see what’s in the box:
Each garage door insulation kit contains eight door insulation panels. The panels measure 54 inches long by 20 and 1/4 inches high by 1 1/4 inches thick. The panels are manufactured with EPS insulation, and the side of the panel the faces out where you can actually look at it is finished with high impact polystyrene laminate. This is going to give you a really clean, finished, professional look.
When they’ve also taken the trouble to score the panels so that you can easily bend them. This makes it easy to insert them into the gaps in your metal garage door. An added bonus of using polystyrene for the exposed face is that it can be cleaned with nothing more than a little dishwashing liquid and a rag. Also, even though the panels and are only 1 1/4 inches thick, they have an R value of 4.5 at 75°. Not bad at all.
They also have extra panels available if your garage doors are oversized like mine, or if you simply have a very large garage with two or more doors.
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I have two 9′w x 8′h four panel doors, how many kits will it take to insulate my doors? also, what is the material used
to attach panel to the doors? thank you
Your questions are answered here: http://diygaragedoorinsulation.com/falcon-foam-garage-door-insulating-kit-faq/ Also, the kit uses the standard framework of yoru garage door panels to hold the insulation in place. See the installation instructions here for more clarification: http://diygaragedoorinsulation.com/matador-garage-door-insulation-installation-instructions/
Hi
On my door the top and bottom panels measure 22 inches wide. Not sure why they come that way. These foam panels are only 20 inches so can I get panels special cut? To do a 2 inch cut myself feels like I’m butchering a panel not to mention it would minimize the R value a bit. Any advice? Thank you.
I hear you – but there is no way to do this that doesn’t involve cutting an extra panel to fit. If yo use clear tape, and make a clean cut it won’t look too bad – you’re right though, your doors are an odd measurement.
having trouble finding R-values for different types and thicknesses of foam insulation.
I don’t know how to help you with that. If you mean general foam – that is all over the place. For the individual kits, the R value is usually stated in the specs.