Regulate your garage s temperature all year by installing insulation.
Insulating attached garage roof.
To prepare determine the area of the space you plan to insulate and add 10 to 20 percent to account for mistakes and odd spaces you need to fill.
One of the best methods you can use if you want to regulate the temperature of your garage is to insulate the garage roof.
Don t insulate your garage walls and ceiling without insulating the big garage door too.
The regulating temperature has positive effects on your cooling and heating costs.
Be sure to count the spaces above doors and windows.
I wrote a big article discussing whether you should insulate your garage.
If your garage is attached to your house you will notice a big difference in your home s temperature as well.
Keep in mind that the structural metal ribbing of garage doors is an excellent conductor of heat and this typically doesn t get insulated.
You can buy insulation kits for standard metal garage doors or you can cut pieces of rigid foam insulation to fit each door panel section.
Insulating an attached garage has some special considerations that you must address differently then a unattached garage.
However if you have a cathedral style garage roof you will need a scaffolding to get into the upper areas of the roof.