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Benefits of Insulating Your Garage | Koala Insulation of West Portland

You work hard to ensure that your family stays comfy and cozy inside your home no matter what season it is. While you are busy ensuring your interior walls are insulated properly, don’t forget about your garage!

This space in your room is extremely vulnerable to temperature swings, which can impact the rest of your home in a big way.

Why Insulating a Garage Matters

Whether you live alone or have a big family, you come and go from your house often. Every time you open up your garage door, a huge rush of outside air comes in.

In the summertime, that probably means that a burst of warm air is now circulating inside your garage. If your garage walls are not insulated, that air can start to infiltrate into your home or rise into your attic space.

If your home can’t easily keep this hot air from coming in, it can start to affect your home’s efficiency over time. Your fans (and AC units, if you have them) will have to work harder to combat that warmer air, and you will most likely be experiencing higher energy bills.

Adding insulation to your garage can help control this airflow much more efficiently.

Choosing the Right Material for the Job

While we love all of our different insulation materials for different reasons, certain materials stand out as the clear winners when choosing insulation for your garage. Batt insulation and spray foam insulation have similar but different benefits that can easily boost your garage’s efficiency.

Batt insulation is that classic pink insulation that comes in pre-cut blankets that can easily be fitted into your garage walls. This particular kind of insulation is good for garages since many garage walls aren’t finished and the wall studs are still exposed.

Spray foam insulation can be a good choice for your ceiling and around your beams and joists, and it can provide complete coverage around those tight areas.

What About My Garage Door?

You certainly can insulate around your garage door if you want! Since your door makes up almost one whole wall of your garage, insulating behind it and around it can help keep the air comfortable within your garage and reduce air leaks.

Since many people use their garages for more than just car storage nowadays, insulating your garage door can help make your home gym or workshop even more comfortable. Call us, and we can help insulate any part of your garage!

We are here for all of your insulation needs. Contact us at Koala Insulation of West Portland.