If you’re in the market for a new garage door, you may be wondering if you should consider an insulated door. If you live in Portland, surrounding areas in Oregon or elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest, the answer is often yes.
Benefits of an Insulated Garage Door
Any new quality garage door, like a Clopay® garage door, is a high-value renovation. A good garage door can increase curb appeal and add value to your home, but an insulated door provides many useful features you’ll appreciate — here are five examples.
- Weather-Resistant
Portland can get notoriously hot in the summer and cold in the winter, not to mention the occasional storm that can seriously pelt your garage door with wind and rain. The right insulated garage door has a design that can stand up to tough weather conditions, keeping you and the contents of your garage safe and comfortable even in the sometimes unpleasant Portland weather.
- Energy Savings
The first and most obvious benefit to having an insulated garage door is that it can save you on energy costs. Although you do not go directly through your garage door into your main home, unless you have insulated the interior door leading from inside the garage to your house, heat can escape through your garage door.
During the winter, you can lose a considerable amount of heat through your garage door, while at the height of a sweltering summer, unpleasant hot air can find its way in. This forces your air conditioner or heating system to work harder, driving up your electricity bill. When you have an insulated door, there is much less heat transfer, which means lower heating and cooling costs throughout the year.
Depending upon how much you heat and cool your home, this means an insulated garage door could quickly pay for itself in energy savings.
- Protection
It’s important to remember that while you may not be spending a lot of time in your garage, your car and other important possessions are. An insulated garage door means it’s harder for the effects of wintry weather to get to your vehicle and cause wear or damage. The main point of having a garage is to protect your car from the elements — why not fully protect it with an insulated door?
In addition, if you do work or other activities in your garage, you’ll appreciate the enhanced temperature control of an insulated door while you’re inside.
- Durability
A benefit of insulated garage doors you might not consider at first is their enhanced strength. A well-insulated garage door usually has a layer of insulating foam sandwiched in between two or more layers of tough steel. This makes insulated doors remarkably resistant to impact and damage, potentially resulting in fewer repair issues.
- Sound-Blocking
If the noise of a garage door opening and closing drives you crazy, you will probably appreciate an insulated garage door. Just as the insulation of your garage door blocks heat transfer and dampens impact, it also blocks and dampens noise. You can enjoy a much quieter garage door operation with an insulated door.
Insulated Garage Door Installation in Portland
If the idea of an insulated garage door in Portland or surrounding areas appeals to you, TF Draper is ready to help. We have qualified experts with decades of experience installing insulated garage doors — we can have yours up and running within hours.
Our inventory is complete with an amazing array of Clopay® insulated doors to choose from, including:
- Doors with high R-Value insulation through Clopay’s Intellicore® polyurethane foam sandwiched inside layers of extremely strong steel in a steel or aluminum frame
- Insulated glass options
- Clopay® CLASSIC™ Collection
- Traditional short or long flush panel doors with 1, 2 or 3-layer construction. These doors can include 1 3/8” to 2” of Intellicore® polyurethane insulation for R-Values as high as 18.4 The door’s tough steel skin features a hot-dipped galvanized layer for extra protection.
- WINDCODE® reinforcement
These and other insulated Clopay® doors are customizable with a variety of window designs, decorative hardware options and paint colors, such as the Ultra-Grain® wood finish for the look and feel of real wood on your steel door. We have many other insulated garage doors to choose from, as well. Talk to one of our friendly sales experts to learn more about the options and find out which insulated door is the right one for your home.
Contact TF Draper for Your Insulated Garage Door Today
At TF Draper, we offer competitive prices on both new insulated garage doors and garage door insulation. You’ll get quality, reliable service every time and quickly learn why TF Draper has been a trusted name in garage doors and garage door openers in and around Portland for nearly 40 years.
For an estimate on your new insulated garage door or garage door insulation, come by our Forest Grove, OR, showroom, call us at (503) 357-1103 or contact us online anytime. We’ll be happy to help you find a durable, energy-saving, great-looking new insulated garage door right away.