Insulating an Old Wood Garage Door!!

Hi everyone um - i decided this morning to make a video about insulating a garage door. This is uh. I like light snow, good um. This is just a standard, um wooden old school door. It'S non-insulated! I was going to kind of show you what the situation here is. Get this infrared thermometer if we take a shot of the actual panel here, it's only about 40 degrees. Now it's 50 in this 55 in the shop right now so and it's about 10 degrees outside. So we got a surface temperature about 40. 38. 40. On the panel itself, we go over here to the frame you're better, your mid 40s, a 50 so you're losing because these panels are only only quarter inch thick plywood you're losing a lot of heat through them. So what i did i bought some three-quarter inch foil. Faced uh foam board here and we're going to be cutting this into rectangles and installing it into these panels um in order to semi insulate the door and we'll see how that goes. So this is uh like a 30 by 30 shop. The walls are insulated, um. So is the ceiling and uh i've got a waste oil burner there to heat the place, but um just give a little bit of background on a building. I do have two doors here, so i have almost this whole wall that isn't insulated because of these doors. Um and you can just tell the heat difference in the room from being up by the door or uh, or you know back here in the back of the shop so anyways that just gives a little bit of background. We'Re gon na go ahead and get started here: [, Music, ], [, Music, ], so [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music ] do [ Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], so [, Music ], all right! So you can see. We got the bottom panels done here and uh. It seems to be going pretty good, so basically, what the process entails is you're going to remove this um. This quarter round piece in here, um that that keeps this panel in. So you got to remove that so you've seen me doing that and then it's just a matter of uh cutting the the piece of foam to the correct size and then uh a little construction adhesive liquid nails is what i've been using around the edge across the Middle and just uh try to get a tight fit as possible and uh tap her in there. I'Ve been putting some of these don't want to stay very well, they want they want to pop back out. So i've been uh just kind of putting a little finish nail in like this just to kind of keep some some uh retention value on the foam while it's uh well, the glue is setting up because once that construction adhesive sets it's not gon na be uh. It'S never gon na move, so so anyways! That'S where we're at uh we'll keep going with the top half here: [: Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ], [, Music, ]. So [ Music, ], [, Music, ], well, there's the first door done still got to do this one over here. I'Ll probably do that one off camera since you've already seen it once and then i'll show you the finished product, but it wasn't bad about an hour and a half all together. In actual time um it came out pretty good. I think you can definitely tell the difference over here when you stand in front of the door, it's not nearly as chilly. You don't get really a draft, so i think it's gon na be good. All right see in a bit all right, so got this other side done so they're, both both insulated now and um really happy with how it turned out all together. It'S going to come over here and get the temperature gun kind of see so [ Music ]. We'Re at about 55 on the surface. Now all those and that's good down here we might be a little bit. Lower 45 is cooler, the closer you get to the ground in here, but anyways real happy with it turned out really good um about a day-long project. I drug it out to a day-long project, didn't really need to be a day-long project. Probably could do it in a morning if you weren't, dilly, dallying, messing with eddie, editing, video and all that stuff too, but anyways ended up being four sheets of the three-quarter inch. Um foam board and um. These are like 10 by 10 doors. Just for reference, so anyways i can already tell the difference. Uh, especially just standing up close by the doors. It'S a lot uh warmer, just next the door. You don't feel like once. You know you don't feel like the side. That'S facing the door is cold, so uh, that's a good sign. Next thing i got ta do is replace this entry door. You can see daylight underneath of it there and it's not as obvious right now, because it's getting dark out, but at the top there's quite a gap too. It doesn't hang straight blah. Blah blah just needs to be inked out and replaced it's falling apart. So there'll be another project for another day, but um yeah really happy with how the installation turned out and um just kind of uh, a diy solution to uh replacing garage doors um. Instead of replacing them with newer, updated insulated units just going and insulating them and working with what you got, uh cost, i would say, probably somewhere in the 150 to 200 range. I did go through about 10 tubes of the uh liquid nails to get it all done, so there is that cost as well, but um definitely worth it all. Right see https://felixfurniture.com/best-benchtop-belt-sander/ .