Buying/replacing garage door?

FreddieFrugal

Hello,

We're currently buying a property which has an integral garage. Now my querie is hypothetical at the moment as I haven't been able to inspect the garage door properly. However with it being an integral garage I want to ensure that the door is reasonably well insulated.

Current one is a roller door. I've been looking online to suss out rough idea of costs and types. But the websites ive found are all quite awkward to navigate and sorted by brands. Have no idea about garage door brands and which are the best ones to go for at all. Hard to trust the info when it's all coming from a seller/marketing point of view. But in general the info I was reading seemed to suggest that sectional garage doors are better for insulation than roller doors and seem to be cheaper.

Just wondering if anyone has recent experience of sorting something like this out. Garage door seems to be fairly standard small squareish dimensions as far as I can tell.

Any thoughts welcome

martinthebandit

Roller doors are usually the most secure though, and the door between an integral garage and the rest of the house would be a fire door which generally give pretty good insulation.

FreddieFrugal

Thanks, aim would be to have fridge/freezer and possibly get plumbing sorted for washing machine too. So don't want it getting too cold in there. The boiler is in there as well.

Furts

If you want to follow a true Eco route (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse...) you may wish to consider insulating your current door. It is straight forward to cut Celotex or Kingspan insulation and insert into the webs.

Mark_Mark

Furts wrote: »

If you want to follow a true Eco route (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse...) you may wish to consider insulating your current door. It is straight forward to cut Celotex or Kingspan insulation and insert into the webs.

Are you serious?

It's a roller door, how would it open with 3" of celotex in the ribs?

Furts

Mark_Mark wrote: »

Are you serious?

It's a roller door, how would it open with 3" of celotex in the ribs?

Doh! I did not read OP carefully enough - could follow this route with an up and over door - would not try 75mm though.

Mark_Mark

Furts wrote: »

Doh! I did not read OP carefully enough - could follow this route with an up and over door - would not try 75mm though.

But the OP hasn't got one.

McKneff

Does anyone have a ball park figure for garage doors, standard size.
just 2 doors opening from the middle.


I cant ever seem to see any prices on them, its always 'ring for a quote'


Are we talking hundreds or thousands ?

Mark_Mark

McKneff wrote: »

Does anyone have a ball park figure for garage doors, standard size.
just 2 doors opening from the middle.


I cant ever seem to see any prices on them, its always 'ring for a quote'


Are we talking hundreds or thousands ?

Hundreds....

auroan

I replace an old up and over door with a Cardale 1/3 - 2/3 side opening metal door. ( http://www.cardale.com/georgian-steel-side%20hinged )

I insulated the doors with celotex and covered internally with ply.

I went for side hinged so I could go in and out with out having to have the entire garage open to the elements each time.

I fitted my self and came to £700 all in; including insulation, frame sealants and threshold strip.

googler

There's little value in insulating the body of the door when there'll nearly always be side, top and/or bottom gaps to let the wind whistle in.....