Garage Insulation
Garage Insulation Service Contractor in Charlotte, Gastonia, York & Nearby Cities in NC & SC
An attached garage that is poorly insulated can absolutely affect your home's comfort -- especially if you have a finished room over the garage.
If you want to better control the temperature in your garage, call the local experts at GSM Services today. We provide garage insulation solutions for homeowners in Charlotte, Huntersville, Gastonia, Mount Holly, Fort Mill and the surrounding areas.
Garage Insulation Benefits
Adding insulation to your garage offers several benefits that enhance both comfort and efficiency. It stabilizes the garage's temperature, making it a more comfortable environment year-round, which is especially beneficial if the space doubles as a workshop or hobby area. Insulation in the garage can lead to significant energy savings by reducing the need for heating and cooling, which is particularly valuable in homes with attached garages that share walls with living spaces. This improvement can also protect vehicles from extreme temperatures, potentially extending the life of batteries and other components sensitive to heat and cold. Overall, garage insulation is a cost-effective upgrade that enhances the functionality and value of your home.
Correcting a construction error. The builder didn’t insulate the garage ceiling, but GSM Services can do the job quickly and affordably by installing dense-pack cellulose. Exterior siding is replaced after the blown-in installation.
Adding Garage Insulation
When a home is built, the common wall and ceiling between the garage and the home's living space should be air-sealed and insulated. However, builders often skip this step. GSM Services can inspect your garage and correct garage insulation problems.
Since most houses have attached garages, and therefore a structural connection between these spaces, there's also a thermal connection. If you have an attached garage, there's a good chance that insufficient garage insulation is compromising your comfort and costing you money.
Depending on the design of the home and how your garage is regularly used, upgrading garage insulation may have a big impact on comfort and energy efficiency in the rest of the house.
Garage Insulations Options & Locations
Insulating the garage ceiling
It's essential to insulate the garage ceiling if there is living space above the garage. Without garage ceiling insulation, the living space above the garage will be uncomfortably cold in winter and hot in summer. You'll be wasting energy nearly all year round.
Insulating garage walls
When the garage is attached to the house, the wall that separates the garage from the living space should be air sealed, insulated, and finished with fire-rated drywall.
Insulating the garage with rigid foam
SilverGlo™ rigid foam insulation installed by the experts at GSM Services, can provide insulating and air sealing value superior to other types of garage insulation. SilverGlo™ offers high R-value, durability (it won’t compress like fiberglass) and immunity to mold and moisture damage. Plus, it has an integral radiant barrier for additional energy savings.
Garages can cause your house to lose heat in winter and be a source of heat gain in summer. Cold (or warm) air infiltrates the garage ceiling assembly and makes its way to the living space above.
Garage Workshop Insulation
Many people like to use the garage for carpentry, woodworking or automotive projects.
If you have a garage workshop, it pays to insulate the garage so that you can work comfortably regardless of weather conditions outside.
Garage Door Insulation
There are two types of doors in garages: those for people and those for cars. A people-type garage door should be insulated and weather-stripped for energy efficiency, and rated for fire protection specified in local building codes.
When it comes to the larger garage doors used for cars, many homeowners choose insulated versions as well, either when a house is built or when replacing old garage doors.
Insulated garage doors have cores that are filled with foam insulation, and metal "skins" that are often textured and detailed to look like old-fashioned frame-and-panel doors made from a solid wood design.
Although insulated garage doors are more expensive than uninsulated "economy" versions, they're often well worth the extra investment. In addition to improving energy efficiency, the door's insulated core helps to prevent the metal surface from being dented and bent out of shape. Home insulation is very important to a home's overall comfort and efficiency.
Expert garage insulation services in Charlotte & nearby
GSM Services are the local garage insulation experts you need for all your garage insulation problems. Call us today at (704) 864-0344 or fill out the online form to schedule a free estimate for garage insulation in Charlotte, Mount Holly, Fort Mill, Huntersville, Gastonia, Denver, Matthews, Lincolnton, Clover, and throughout the surrounding areas.
We also offer a comprehensive home energy audit to identify all the areas within your home that could be causing some high utility bills and discomfort.