I think on the hottest of the summer days, it can make up to a 10 degree difference. Doesn't sound like a lot, but working a few hours in 80 degrees is worlds different than 90.
This is a great video and follow-up because it's not just an instructional DIY video. You recorded the data, analyzed the facts, and presented your conclusions. It's good to see the results. Thank you for doing this.
Outstanding Planing, Presentation and Observations!!! Don’t care about Car Restorations myself, but I Subscribed and Liked for this type of content and analysis. Thank You for all the Time and Effort you put into this And Followed Up👍👍👍
Kudos to your approach! This is the only video I have seen where real measurement data was used to determine effectiveness of the installation. As an engineer, I appreciate this.
The issue comes down to heat soak. Once the heat gets in and soaks everything hot its tough to get the heat back out because the insulation holds it in as well. I have three 18x8 doors facing west and went from standard doors to factory insulated doors with R13 ratings here in Texas. They work great until things are heat soaked or you drive your nice hot car/truck into the garage and the full insulation keeps the heat in. Good video.
Why I am considering adding a vent fan that I can turn on at night to cool my garage back down. That way the day would start back at a lower temp. And you can open the door and let some heat out as well when it cools.
@@brettpeckinpaugh I normally open my garage doors at night sometimes and let the air flow through. My doors are factory insulated but since my house faces east, its hot by 10 am in there.
@@brettpeckinpaugh I actually have thought about adding a passive vent to the ceiling in mine so I can vent heat through my attic space above the garage, but that would require incoming, cooler air also, so my thoughts were to add a crawl space vent as my garage buts up against the interior house foundation anyway. Just let the heat rise and let it pull cooler air from under the house. Will that work well ? Who knows, I still haven't done it. Would need a tight mesh scrim over the floor vent to keep any potential bugs at bay, as well. Thinking on it, this is probably not advisable if you have any volatile materials stored in the garage.
Im in Charlotte, I'd really like to see how the insulation did for July-Aug and Jan-Feb. If the panels and film keep the garage temps relatively stable during those months the money was well spent.
Thank you so much. Im in palm springs ca. So its been like 130 in garage here i bought an a.c. 2 fans garage insulation panels and wasnt sure if i made the right decision on getting the white or reflective. Great video man you really are a perfectionist! Appreciate the time you took to make these vids
Interesting project. Actually the difference is more than 6 degrees. You are comparing the outside temperature with the inside temperature, but the more significant comparison would be the inside temperatures with and without the insulation. With outside temperature of 90 degrees + sunshine, the garage could easily go 15 degrees above, now with the 6 degrees off the outside temperature, the temperature difference before and after insulation should be over 20 degrees, which is quite significant.
Get yourself a infrared camera now and run over the garage temp on the metal studs especially. I know from my experience those still transfer a lot of head because they are hollow tube so they ruin your insulation. A few can's of BLUE spray foam will do the job perfectly because it doesn't expand as much and there for doesn't put pressure onto the metal. Where the red or black spray foam has to much expansion force which might even rip your metal thru the sheet metal screws. But overall you got a nice result now with the infrared camera (buy off amazon test it and return it) so you get the results you need.
Great video!!! Thanks for sharing this valuable information. Do you have insulation over your garage in the attic? In Florida most houses don't and it has predictable results. I you if you don't have said attic insulation and you decide to add it could you do a video with the same data logging process?
Here in Utah our summers routinely get above 100 degrees and my garage doors, that were painted a similar brown to yours, would literally (and I do use the word literally, to mean what it actually means) burn your skin if you touched it. It would actually be uncomfortable standing within 2 feet of the door because of the radiated heat. I painted the door white, and immediately the doors never got worse that warm to the touch. You should try that and marvel at the results.
great videos. i think you’ll notice a bigger benefit if you also try to add heat or remove heat from the space, gaining not only resistance to outside undesirable changes but preservation of inside desirable changes (ie adding heat in winter, or A/C in the summer.)
Awesome! Thank you, going to be purchasing a home In Nevada and I need everysingle degree difference if I'm going to be wrenching inside the garage lol.
So how did this do in July and August 2020 in the NC summer? Also, how does this look in numbers now that we're into January and February freezing temps in NC? Any data you can share around those points? Thanks!
Curious as to what else we can do to lower that temperature further. I love the analytics btw! Part of my job is analyzing trends in data relative to my industry, and your narrative was more than solid!
Not the point of the video but in the beginning you mentioned your finger injury. I'm a contractor by trade and have lopped off small bits of fingertips and smashed fingers that lost their fingernail multiple in the time between learning and the present. And I can tell you now. The fingernail will almost always come back. I even learned a fun fact in one of my injuries. I actually cut off approximately 3/16 of an inch of the tip of my finger like literal flesh missing and cut through the nail and the nail bed itself. I actually had a doctor that knew what he was talking about; and with a special foam that she put on the tip of my finger he said that since there was healthy nail bed material there that the nail bed actually has stem cells in it that will regenerate the Lost bit of tissue that was gone since it was too small to sew back on. If you cut off the entire nail bed you lose that regenerative ability. But so long as you have some nail bed left and didn't cut to the Bone it'll come back. It took about a year; but miraculously yes that 3/8 of an inch of missing flesh actually did grow back along with the fingernail. I was actually able to work with the finger after just a couple of weeks so long as I kept it protected and clean. it does take quite a bit of time and does look funky for awhile. But after a few months, the injury that you have should look normal again. Even my cuticles are normally shaped once again.
Looks like the mean temperatures in the garage have remained very much the same even though outside temperatures are far higher (where comfort is concerned). Definitely cut the variance out of the curve too as you pointed out. I'd say you got that installed just in time.
Yeah for sure. My inside house temp is ~70-72 degrees so I imagine the garage is always trying to stay around there; The insulation helps to cut down the deviations.
HOA's!!??!! How dare they say I have to paint my garage door a specific color. Painting them white would have been your first defense against heat in the summer. I had a 50 degree difference just painting the center of the black hard top roof on my jeep. It still looks like a black top from the sides, but if you get above the roof, it has a white center. living in Las Vegas, my inside temps were approaching 165 degrees in August and the a/c would struggle to keep up. Now, 110 is the highest it gets and the a/c works MUCH BETTER. Great video though!! Thanks.
Great presentation! Sorry to see your finger drama. I too had a finger drama with an angle grinder. I didn’t use the provided handle ! 8 stitches across the top of my index finger on the knuckle. Total cost in NY without insurance emergency room needed 15k. I (almost) always use the handle now.
There's garage tracks that helps garage temp by pushing the garage door flush to the wall which might help your values. Also any exposed uninsulated areas will dramatically kill your potential temperature control.
You cover a lot of good, basic data collection and analysis principles - i will incorporate this video into my science lessons, if that's okay. I love the authenticity of this 'study', as in it is a real-life example of quantitative measurements that people can easily do at home. 🙂
I think you would get far greater benefits if you could do the insulation on the outside, but I’m guessing that won’t be possible thanks to HOA. Great job 👍🏼
I don't have an exact measurement since I didn't use all the materials I bought, but I'd guess around ~20 lbs in total, 10 lbs per door. If you're worried about the weight, definitely stick with Reflectix only, since that should be safely less than 5 lbs per door. I don't think that will have much of an effect on the motor.
I am a garage door technician, added weight to the door does affect the motor performance. When adding weight to the door it is advised that spring tension should be added to help the travel or if the spring is over 5 years old I would recommend replacing it with one gauge stronger to adjust for the work force. I run into owners all the time that add insulation and wonder why a year or 2 later the motor has gone bad. The door in manual use should balance on each section as it pivots through the air if it is not doing this it needs to be tended too.
@@putridperrier test the door manually. You can look up a balance test to get the idea of what you are looking for. If it passes you are good. If it doesn't, q spring less than 5 years can have tension adde, if over 5 years old, should be replaced.
I've been researching this for a while. Thanks. Im in a neighboring city and it gets pretty cold sometimes. Give me an update on keeping the cold out compared with pre-insulation. Does this work well for keeping the garage fairly warm in cold temps?
I was thumbing through a mail circular for home improvement stuff and saw some garage specific fans you mount in the ceiling. I believe they were exhaust fans like a thermostatic attic fan to blow hot air out. Maybe worth a look.
Thanks for the information. I have the roll type insulation and was contemplating doing the two layer approach as you did. Glad I watched the Video. I concur, double layer is probably not worth the effort for only a few degrees difference. I am in Vegas so it gets hot, n the triple digits Hot. Will let you know how we'll it works at keeping the garage cool at peak desert temperatures Fernando
I’m def curious how well this is working during the winter months. My garage is freezing. I would love to know that this helps and to what degree. Great videos tho! Thanks.
Hey man. Great video. Just discovered your video. I live in Durham, so we are neighbors :) I want to insulate my garage as well as both my kids sleep basically in the rooms on top of the garage. Which material did you buy and how was the install? Are you still happy about the work now?
Once it warms up in the garage it definitely takes longer to cool down. In the hot summer months once the sun sets and it cools down outside, you can open the doors and turn a couple fans on to circulate the warmer air out and get cooler are in for a more comfortable working area. I'm in the midwest with very extreme high and low temps. My garage doors are insulated then i did the foil on top of that for a little extra. I tinted the glass but think I may cover them like you did for more heat control rejection in the summer months as my garage faces west and direct sun most of the day. Great videos and explanation!
Thank you for your video. They are helpful. I am in the process of either insulating my current garage door by a pro or completely replacing it with a new insulated garage door. By the way I am assuming you garage is not cooled or heated, is that right?
Excellent videos with solid data and very well explained. Am looking to insulate my garage door to minimise heat loss in winter. Appreciate all your data.
Do you think if you add some type of air conditioning or ventilation system inside your garage that it will help cool it. Also would this be a good idea for a renter? I want to use my garage as a playroom and I think adding insulating on the garage door and an air cooling system would help.
Great video bro; love the analytics! -- I wonder if you would've seen a bigger benefit if you had added a second layer of the reflective insulation; behind the styrofoam.
Definitely the Reflectix, given how much easier it is to work with. I'd probably still double layer the reflectix though... One directly on the panel itself and one floating on top of the beams.
@@darkmanx2g It honestly depends on how meticulously you install the Reflectix or the styrofoam. But if I were to do it all over again, I'd just stick with the Reflectix. It's easy to cut and very lightweight. If you double layer it and take a little extra time with taping, it should yield very good results.
Home Depot has rigid insulation sheets with radiant barrier. Very easy to cut and install. It’s about the same price as the kit. Search UA-cam for examples. www.homedepot.com/p/R-Matte-Rmax-R-Matte-Plus-3-3-4-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-R-5-Polyisocyanurate-Rigid-Foam-Insulation-Board-W-N5075X/100317820
@@RestorationForBeginners good point maybe an enclosed box it could go into with a filter? Btw I'm a huge fan of the z series cars especially when it was Datsun i had a b210 best hatchback I ever owned the best clutch design I've ever seen all you had to do was remove the input shaft and unbolt the pressure plate took 30 minutes to replace the clutch.
50% is tool rusting territory. I try to stay below 30 at all times. Back when I was married, my ex wife unit would pull her Subaru into the garage in Portland Oregon, all soaked from the rain(only 9 months of the year mind you). When I installed a hygrometer, I was shocked to see the RH peak around 90%, a half hour after she got home every day. I also got a noticeable amount of rusting on a lot of hardened steel tools in my box. After installing a dehumidifier, I managed to keep the RH in the 20s , and tools stopped rusting.
I have plenty of lighting to keep it bright, and I for sure won't miss the sunlight burning my neck while I work on the car. If the weather is nice, I can always just open the garage door!
Great video. Did a whole lot of research on this myself recently and I'm planning instaling a mini-split sometime soon. Do you have data on how often you opened up your garage door for those comparison days from before and after the install?
You need to insulate the door, before adding air conditioning or heat; otherwise you will have a runup on bills. The insulation will keep the conditioned air or heat into the garage, and not leak through the tin can doors. What I don't understand is why the heck he has three support bars running the width of the doors, seems like overkill. For the size of his doors, he should only need the top one for the door opener.
Holy shit, it's been more than a year since you started the Datsun rebuild. Would be interesting if you made a chart with all the expenses regarding the rebuild, and made it into a graph over time. Combine that with some sort of graph regarding progress.
@@RestorationForBeginners Another tip from me, if you don't want to waste hours and hours sanding that car, I think you can hire some sort of water/sandblasting unit in America. It isn't cheap, but considering how many hours you'll otherwise have to put into it it will most likely be worth it.
@@chyrt Definitely. I'm going to finish up the rust repairs, fit back the panels, and then just hand it over to a shop for stripping and epoxy-ing. I eventually realized there's no way I can do it all by myself. I don't have the proper tools or the space to do it.
That's a really good question, but I don't have a quantifiable answer for that. I like to think so, because my garage is the bottom floor of my townhome, but to what extent, I'm not sure. I mean it should definitely be helping right?
@@RestorationForBeginners I would think it would help too. I have room over the garage that was poorly insulated during the home construction. I've made some upgrades that have certainly helped, but I was considering adding the heat reflectant to the foam insulation. I guess only way you could find out the benefit would be to look at electric bills before and the the insulation was added.
It does seem a bit quieter, but live in a relatively quiet area so I'm not a 100% sure. I wouldn't do this if that's the only thing you're after, but it could be a nice secondary benefit.
If you want to reduce sounds coming in use the fiberglass insulation. Then maybe something to cover the fiber glass. Also insulate the metal frame and around the area between the tracks and outside wall. Also cover the windows if you have them. You'll be surprised how much sound you'll eliminate. The fiberglass will absorb the sound. You need to seal up areas that allow sound to travel either through or around the door/ door opening.
Six degrees is plenty. Thanks for doing this!
I think on the hottest of the summer days, it can make up to a 10 degree difference. Doesn't sound like a lot, but working a few hours in 80 degrees is worlds different than 90.
Thanks for the follow-up video.
Now that it is winter, how has the garage been?
Any thoughts on external weather stripping to keep drafts out? 🤔
This is a great video and follow-up because it's not just an instructional DIY video. You recorded the data, analyzed the facts, and presented your conclusions. It's good to see the results. Thank you for doing this.
Outstanding Planing, Presentation and Observations!!! Don’t care about Car Restorations myself, but I Subscribed and Liked for this type of content and analysis. Thank You for all the Time and Effort you put into this And Followed Up👍👍👍
Kudos to your approach! This is the only video I have seen where real measurement data was used to determine effectiveness of the installation. As an engineer, I appreciate this.
The issue comes down to heat soak. Once the heat gets in and soaks everything hot its tough to get the heat back out because the insulation holds it in as well. I have three 18x8 doors facing west and went from standard doors to factory insulated doors with R13 ratings here in Texas. They work great until things are heat soaked or you drive your nice hot car/truck into the garage and the full insulation keeps the heat in. Good video.
Why I am considering adding a vent fan that I can turn on at night to cool my garage back down. That way the day would start back at a lower temp. And you can open the door and let some heat out as well when it cools.
@@brettpeckinpaugh I normally open my garage doors at night sometimes and let the air flow through. My doors are factory insulated but since my house faces east, its hot by 10 am in there.
@@brettpeckinpaugh
I actually have thought about adding a passive vent to the ceiling in mine so I can vent heat through my attic space above the garage, but that would require incoming, cooler air also, so my thoughts were to add a crawl space vent as my garage buts up against the interior house foundation anyway.
Just let the heat rise and let it pull cooler air from under the house. Will that work well ? Who knows, I still haven't done it. Would need a tight mesh scrim over the floor vent to keep any potential bugs at bay, as well. Thinking on it, this is probably not advisable if you have any volatile materials stored in the garage.
Im in Charlotte, I'd really like to see how the insulation did for July-Aug and Jan-Feb. If the panels and film keep the garage temps relatively stable during those months the money was well spent.
I think would be fun if you published a running website of your measurements!
Thank you so much. Im in palm springs ca. So its been like 130 in garage here i bought an a.c. 2 fans garage insulation panels and wasnt sure if i made the right decision on getting the white or reflective. Great video man you really are a perfectionist! Appreciate the time you took to make these vids
Interesting project. Actually the difference is more than 6 degrees. You are comparing the outside temperature with the inside temperature, but the more significant comparison would be the inside temperatures with and without the insulation. With outside temperature of 90 degrees + sunshine, the garage could easily go 15 degrees above, now with the 6 degrees off the outside temperature, the temperature difference before and after insulation should be over 20 degrees, which is quite significant.
Get yourself a infrared camera now and run over the garage temp on the metal studs especially. I know from my experience those still transfer a lot of head because they are hollow tube so they ruin your insulation. A few can's of BLUE spray foam will do the job perfectly because it doesn't expand as much and there for doesn't put pressure onto the metal. Where the red or black spray foam has to much expansion force which might even rip your metal thru the sheet metal screws. But overall you got a nice result now with the infrared camera (buy off amazon test it and return it) so you get the results you need.
I was curious where you were located. I am also in Raleigh. How does everything work with the humidity here?
Omg. Same here. Lol.
"Insulation Installation" say that three times fast
Wow man! Awesome data collection & explanation. Thanks for this.
Put the radiant barrier in the middle of the 2 doors and around the stationary frame of the doors.
Good to know you're doing alright m8
Great video!!! Thanks for sharing this valuable information. Do you have insulation over your garage in the attic? In Florida most houses don't and it has predictable results. I you if you don't have said attic insulation and you decide to add it could you do a video with the same data logging process?
Here in Utah our summers routinely get above 100 degrees and my garage doors, that were painted a similar brown to yours, would literally (and I do use the word literally, to mean what it actually means) burn your skin if you touched it. It would actually be uncomfortable standing within 2 feet of the door because of the radiated heat. I painted the door white, and immediately the doors never got worse that warm to the touch. You should try that and marvel at the results.
in the first video he stated that HOA mandated dark colors on the garage doors.
I really thought there'd be a MUCH higher difference afterwards. Surprised after all that.
great videos. i think you’ll notice a bigger benefit if you also try to add heat or remove heat from the space, gaining not only resistance to outside undesirable changes but preservation of inside desirable changes (ie adding heat in winter, or A/C in the summer.)
Awesome! Thank you, going to be purchasing a home In Nevada and I need everysingle degree difference if I'm going to be wrenching inside the garage lol.
FYI: The two lines are almost indistinguishable for me (color blind) because the color VALUE of the 2 colors is too similar. Great video though. Thx.
So how did this do in July and August 2020 in the NC summer? Also, how does this look in numbers now that we're into January and February freezing temps in NC? Any data you can share around those points? Thanks!
Curious as to what else we can do to lower that temperature further.
I love the analytics btw! Part of my job is analyzing trends in data relative to my industry, and your narrative was more than solid!
Add a small A.C supply vent to cool down just a little without effecting the rest of the house much.
I'm in marketing and was trained as an analyst for my day job so glad to hear it!
@@RestorationForBeginners Nice! I'm also in marketing (technically advertising) as a strategist and analyst...no wonder the flow spoke to me haha
@@yuriykalachik3627 oh nice nice...thanks for that tip
For better results, paint the doors white.
Not the point of the video but in the beginning you mentioned your finger injury. I'm a contractor by trade and have lopped off small bits of fingertips and smashed fingers that lost their fingernail multiple in the time between learning and the present. And I can tell you now. The fingernail will almost always come back. I even learned a fun fact in one of my injuries. I actually cut off approximately 3/16 of an inch of the tip of my finger like literal flesh missing and cut through the nail and the nail bed itself. I actually had a doctor that knew what he was talking about; and with a special foam that she put on the tip of my finger he said that since there was healthy nail bed material there that the nail bed actually has stem cells in it that will regenerate the Lost bit of tissue that was gone since it was too small to sew back on. If you cut off the entire nail bed you lose that regenerative ability. But so long as you have some nail bed left and didn't cut to the Bone it'll come back. It took about a year; but miraculously yes that 3/8 of an inch of missing flesh actually did grow back along with the fingernail. I was actually able to work with the finger after just a couple of weeks so long as I kept it protected and clean. it does take quite a bit of time and does look funky for awhile. But after a few months, the injury that you have should look normal again. Even my cuticles are normally shaped once again.
What would you think about even doing a 3rd layer? I'm thinking just the radiant film up against the actual door, then the foam, then the bubble film.
The provided links for the products do not work... can you tell me the names of the products or the updated links? Thanks!
What if you put the reflective insulation 1st and then ridgid foam... ?!
Curious about your thoughts are on this 3 years later. Planning on doing this to mine here in texas.
The previous video and this follow up video just made me a fan. +sub +like
Thanks, very timely. I am about to do my garage doors in ILM. NC
Is your garage conditioned? I am looking at a minisplit for my garage
Great video.. Texas weather now is boiling hot..trying to work in my garage, looks like I been working out. Thanks for the info
I hear you, I'm originally from Dallas!
Yep that’s my location
After 12 in Texas no work will be done in my garage. Ft worth.
@@RestorationForBeginners Will this insulation help in Austin TX? My garage is made of steel\medal without glass windows.
Hey! We're in Raleigh too! Great vid!
Great job on visualization of metrics!
Looks like the mean temperatures in the garage have remained very much the same even though outside temperatures are far higher (where comfort is concerned). Definitely cut the variance out of the curve too as you pointed out. I'd say you got that installed just in time.
Yeah for sure. My inside house temp is ~70-72 degrees so I imagine the garage is always trying to stay around there; The insulation helps to cut down the deviations.
HOA's!!??!! How dare they say I have to paint my garage door a specific color. Painting them white would have been your first defense against heat in the summer. I had a 50 degree difference just painting the center of the black hard top roof on my jeep. It still looks like a black top from the sides, but if you get above the roof, it has a white center. living in Las Vegas, my inside temps were approaching 165 degrees in August and the a/c would struggle to keep up. Now, 110 is the highest it gets and the a/c works MUCH BETTER. Great video though!! Thanks.
Great presentation! Sorry to see your finger drama. I too had a finger drama with an angle grinder. I didn’t use the provided handle ! 8 stitches across the top of my index finger on the knuckle. Total cost in NY without insurance emergency room needed 15k. I (almost) always use the handle now.
Thanks for sharing your useful analysis.
There's garage tracks that helps garage temp by pushing the garage door flush to the wall which might help your values. Also any exposed uninsulated areas will dramatically kill your potential temperature control.
You cover a lot of good, basic data collection and analysis principles - i will incorporate this video into my science lessons, if that's okay. I love the authenticity of this 'study', as in it is a real-life example of quantitative measurements that people can easily do at home. 🙂
I think you would get far greater benefits if you could do the insulation on the outside, but I’m guessing that won’t be possible thanks to HOA. Great job 👍🏼
How much weight did it add to the door(s)? Do you think that will wear out the garage door motor faster?
I don't have an exact measurement since I didn't use all the materials I bought, but I'd guess around ~20 lbs in total, 10 lbs per door. If you're worried about the weight, definitely stick with Reflectix only, since that should be safely less than 5 lbs per door. I don't think that will have much of an effect on the motor.
I am a garage door technician, added weight to the door does affect the motor performance. When adding weight to the door it is advised that spring tension should be added to help the travel or if the spring is over 5 years old I would recommend replacing it with one gauge stronger to adjust for the work force. I run into owners all the time that add insulation and wonder why a year or 2 later the motor has gone bad. The door in manual use should balance on each section as it pivots through the air if it is not doing this it needs to be tended too.
@@martinmorales2473 Look out for the next video with the motors getting souped up. Concerns no more !
So a solution could be to just use the reflectix material, which looks to be much lighter, and this would be ok on the garage motor?
@@putridperrier test the door manually. You can look up a balance test to get the idea of what you are looking for. If it passes you are good. If it doesn't, q spring less than 5 years can have tension adde, if over 5 years old, should be replaced.
I've been researching this for a while. Thanks. Im in a neighboring city and it gets pretty cold sometimes. Give me an update on keeping the cold out compared with pre-insulation. Does this work well for keeping the garage fairly warm in cold temps?
I was thumbing through a mail circular for home improvement stuff and saw some garage specific fans you mount in the ceiling. I believe they were exhaust fans like a thermostatic attic fan to blow hot air out. Maybe worth a look.
Thanks for the information. I have the roll type insulation and was contemplating doing the two layer approach as you did. Glad I watched the Video.
I concur, double layer is probably not worth the effort for only a few degrees difference.
I am in Vegas so it gets hot, n the triple digits Hot. Will let you know how we'll it works at keeping the garage cool at peak desert temperatures
Fernando
I’m def curious how well this is working during the winter months. My garage is freezing. I would love to know that this helps and to what degree. Great videos tho! Thanks.
Hey man.
Great video. Just discovered your video.
I live in Durham, so we are neighbors :)
I want to insulate my garage as well as both my kids sleep basically in the rooms on top of the garage.
Which material did you buy and how was the install? Are you still happy about the work now?
Once it warms up in the garage it definitely takes longer to cool down. In the hot summer months once the sun sets and it cools down outside, you can open the doors and turn a couple fans on to circulate the warmer air out and get cooler are in for a more comfortable working area. I'm in the midwest with very extreme high and low temps. My garage doors are insulated then i did the foil on top of that for a little extra. I tinted the glass but think I may cover them like you did for more heat control rejection in the summer months as my garage faces west and direct sun most of the day. Great videos and explanation!
Thank you for your video. They are helpful. I am in the process of either insulating my current garage door by a pro or completely replacing it with a new insulated garage door. By the way I am assuming you garage is not cooled or heated, is that right?
Matt Risinger recently Dec 3rd posted a video of garage door rails that press the door closer to the wall for a more tight seal. I bought some.
Excellent videos with solid data and very well explained. Am looking to insulate my garage door to minimise heat loss in winter. Appreciate all your data.
Do you think if you add some type of air conditioning or ventilation system inside your garage that it will help cool it. Also would this be a good idea for a renter? I want to use my garage as a playroom and I think adding insulating on the garage door and an air cooling system would help.
I only wish this would work for me.. here in Phoenix, it gets above 100 in the garage before the door comes into play...
I'm in Minnesota. It's winter. How does it work for extremely cold weather?
Great video bro; love the analytics! -- I wonder if you would've seen a bigger benefit if you had added a second layer of the reflective insulation; behind the styrofoam.
Quite possibly! I think the bigger issue is the gap between the garage doors and the wall at this point, which I can't do much about.
Not likely. Radiant heat transfer isn’t the dominant mode at these low temperatures. More(thicker) foam would help more.
Did you actually see more dramatic differences in hottest and coldest days in the year?
If only one insulation material was chosen, would you choose the reflective material or the styrofoam?
Definitely the Reflectix, given how much easier it is to work with. I'd probably still double layer the reflectix though... One directly on the panel itself and one floating on top of the beams.
@@RestorationForBeginners Do you think both material was most effective creating the pocket? Or just use the reflectix by itself?
@@darkmanx2g It honestly depends on how meticulously you install the Reflectix or the styrofoam. But if I were to do it all over again, I'd just stick with the Reflectix. It's easy to cut and very lightweight. If you double layer it and take a little extra time with taping, it should yield very good results.
Home Depot has rigid insulation sheets with radiant barrier. Very easy to cut and install. It’s about the same price as the kit. Search UA-cam for examples.
www.homedepot.com/p/R-Matte-Rmax-R-Matte-Plus-3-3-4-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-R-5-Polyisocyanurate-Rigid-Foam-Insulation-Board-W-N5075X/100317820
Great video series .. loved it. Hope you finger is alright!
Keep a dehumidifier in the garage and try to keep around 50% rh it'll help the comfort level.
I would, but I make so much dust in here working on the car that I'm afraid that it'll just ruin the machine after a month or so.
@@RestorationForBeginners good point maybe an enclosed box it could go into with a filter? Btw I'm a huge fan of the z series cars especially when it was Datsun i had a b210 best hatchback I ever owned the best clutch design I've ever seen all you had to do was remove the input shaft and unbolt the pressure plate took 30 minutes to replace the clutch.
Dehumidifier also adds heat to a room.
50% is tool rusting territory. I try to stay below 30 at all times. Back when I was married, my ex wife unit would pull her Subaru into the garage in Portland Oregon, all soaked from the rain(only 9 months of the year mind you). When I installed a hygrometer, I was shocked to see the RH peak around 90%, a half hour after she got home every day. I also got a noticeable amount of rusting on a lot of hardened steel tools in my box. After installing a dehumidifier, I managed to keep the RH in the 20s , and tools stopped rusting.
Nice job. Very informative!
was giving up all the daylight from the windows worth it? I am afraid to make my garage a dungeon
I have plenty of lighting to keep it bright, and I for sure won't miss the sunlight burning my neck while I work on the car. If the weather is nice, I can always just open the garage door!
Nice.
Looking for 1980 280zx crossbar
Wow you are 45 mins from me no wonder our results are so similar
very informative and great idea!
Great video. Did a whole lot of research on this myself recently and I'm planning instaling a mini-split sometime soon. Do you have data on how often you opened up your garage door for those comparison days from before and after the install?
Mini-split?
@@fernandoavila1185 small A/C unit
Awesome videos, but you can get a portable air conditioner for what you paid for the insulation.
Breckenridge Auto Detailing Channel but you can’t run it for any time at all, and stay below his build cost.
You need to insulate the door, before adding air conditioning or heat; otherwise you will have a runup on bills. The insulation will keep the conditioned air or heat into the garage, and not leak through the tin can doors. What I don't understand is why the heck he has three support bars running the width of the doors, seems like overkill. For the size of his doors, he should only need the top one for the door opener.
Holy shit, it's been more than a year since you started the Datsun rebuild.
Would be interesting if you made a chart with all the expenses regarding the rebuild, and made it into a graph over time.
Combine that with some sort of graph regarding progress.
Bruh I honestly don't even want to know how much I've spent in total =(
@@RestorationForBeginners Another tip from me, if you don't want to waste hours and hours sanding that car, I think you can hire some sort of water/sandblasting unit in America. It isn't cheap, but considering how many hours you'll otherwise have to put into it it will most likely be worth it.
@@chyrt Definitely. I'm going to finish up the rust repairs, fit back the panels, and then just hand it over to a shop for stripping and epoxy-ing. I eventually realized there's no way I can do it all by myself. I don't have the proper tools or the space to do it.
Great videos man.
Have you seen any heating/cooling benefits from the insulation project in the living area over the garage?
That's a really good question, but I don't have a quantifiable answer for that. I like to think so, because my garage is the bottom floor of my townhome, but to what extent, I'm not sure. I mean it should definitely be helping right?
@@RestorationForBeginners I would think it would help too. I have room over the garage that was poorly insulated during the home construction. I've made some upgrades that have certainly helped, but I was considering adding the heat reflectant to the foam insulation.
I guess only way you could find out the benefit would be to look at electric bills before and the the insulation was added.
Did you notice and change in how much noise comes thru after the insulation? I film videos in my garage and would like less road noise coming in.
It does seem a bit quieter, but live in a relatively quiet area so I'm not a 100% sure. I wouldn't do this if that's the only thing you're after, but it could be a nice secondary benefit.
@@RestorationForBeginners thanks!
If you want to reduce sounds coming in use the fiberglass insulation. Then maybe something to cover the fiber glass. Also insulate the metal frame and around the area between the tracks and outside wall. Also cover the windows if you have them. You'll be surprised how much sound you'll eliminate.
The fiberglass will absorb the sound. You need to seal up areas that allow sound to travel either through or around the door/ door opening.
Add a heater and a/c to get exactly 76 degree temp 24/7.
Thinking about it. Needed to work on the insulation first to not waste energy!
Nice Job thanks for the info
No problem 👍