Weatherproof garage doors?

[jymbee]

... Nothing froze this year in the garage despite the very harsh wind and cold temperature. I hate burst frozen beer cans spewing suds all over. What remains tastes awful.

Hmmm... you're in Michigan and nothing froze? Great looking doors. The garage/studio we're building is unattached and I had assumed that when temps outside got down to around 20 below that any freezeable materials inside would freeze-- absent any supplemental heat source. I guess there's a lot of variables...

Know what you mean about frozen beer-- not a good thing!

 

[jymbee]

I have 2 ten foot tall garage doors that are insulated. They are facing east which helps a lot. The rest of the garage/shop is insulated and stays toasty warm when I use heat. Very quiet also.
Dave

What kind of heat are you using in the garage Dave?

 

[zzvyb6]

When you park a car and a truck fresh off the highway into a well insulated garage, the heat source and mass of the vehicles will provide a few hours of comfortable warmth in the building air (not necessarily the structure). This can be a problem if the slush from the vehicles then melts and tries to exit under the doors. There can then be a frozen door, so have a properly drained floor away from the door openings. If you have a refrigerator in the garage for that Summertime refreshment collection, the thing won't work properly and the defrost cycle will give you a headache.

I just put a cupola up on the garage roof, so now I have to plan on some type of seal to keep the heat from baling out in Winter. The cupola does a wonderful job of letting trapped heat escape. It has to be screened to keep bugs and birds out, too.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

When you park a car and a truck fresh off the highway into a well insulated garage, the heat source and mass of the vehicles will provide a few hours of comfortable warmth in the building air (not necessarily the structure). This can be a problem if the slush from the vehicles then melts and tries to exit under the doors. There can then be a frozen door, so have a properly drained floor away from the door openings. .

Floor sloped away from the door? That's a new one to me. Floor slabs around here are typically either level or sloping towards the door. If you have in-floor drains, that changes things but opens up a whole other can of worms.

If the shop is heated, there should be no worry about frozen doors

 

[byronlj]

I have an office and game room elevated 2' above and to the side of the shop area. I use a wood burning stove for heat. My shop hasn't gone below 40 degrees even without the stove going.
Dave

 

[gsganzer]

I like using roll up doors, because they don't interfere with anything when you roll them up. I used TracRite doors on my shop. They come with options for insulation, draft seals and brush seals if you want them.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

I like using roll up doors, because they don't interfere with anything when you roll them up. I used TracRite doors on my shop. They come with options for insulation, draft seals and brush seals if you want them.

I don't see any mention of insulation options on that website. Several different choices of weather/wind seals but that's it. I've never seen them up here on a heated building and can't even guess how one could be insulated. Even if you could, the roll would be 4' diameter when its all rolled up.

 

[gsganzer]

I don't see any mention of insulation options on that website. Several different choices of weather/wind seals but that's it. I've never seen them up here on a heated building and can't even guess how one could be insulated. Even if you could, the roll would be 4' diameter when its all rolled up.

It's part way down this page. TracRite Accessories It's just foil lined bubble wrap, glued to the inside. I have it on both of my shop doors. It actually works surprisingly well.

On my old metal doors, during the Texas heat, you felt like you were standing next to a radiant heater inside. With these, I don't feel any heat radiating through.

What's nice with the roll-ups is that they don't interfere with any of your inside shop lights. With the partition doors, when they raise up, they usually obscure the ceiling lights.

I think I paid $400/ea. for my 8' x 8' roll-ups with insulation, draft seals, brush seals and lock sets. You can install them in about an hour with 2 people.

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

Missed that page when I was looking. I can see bubble wrap working in Texas to keep heat out, that would be what, 40 deg F temp differential? We are often 100-110 deg F difference from outside winter temp to room temp. Bubble wrap ain't going to cut that. Not blocking lights is a positive I hadn't thought of for them.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have clopay insulated garage doors on my garage and barn. Haven't insulated the barn yet, but went ahead and put in insulated doors when I built. I like them.