Well, what can you do for the sake of your favorite garage, equipped with your own reliable garage doors? Moreover, modern garage doors have nothing in common with creaky doors and a barn castle. Today, this, we will not be afraid to say, an alloy of advanced technologies and newest building materials. "I have to tear my claws," the famous actor once said in his garage, and he was right.
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Garage doors - a classic of technology
The most convenient, and therefore reliable, type of access organization for the garage can be called a garage gate swinging. The existing traditions in the form of the execution of the gate shield can even be called classics. The gate panel can be made of high-strength metal, it can be a steel one- or two-layer of corrugated or smooth sheet.
More modern models of garage doors are made of sandwich panels or made grating welded and forged. For the swinging backyards of the entrance gates, it is characteristic that the doors of the entrance gates open into the territory. For garage doors - the sashes are fixed to the pillars of the fences with the help of loops of various designs and open outwards.
By purchasing and installing garage doors with their own hands, the owner receives a number of obvious advantages:
• simplicity and comfort of the structure during installation and subsequent operation
• the possibility of choosing a convenient way to open the doors.
Becoming an obvious happy owner of the garage gates, the natural question arises: "How to insulate the garage gates, so that in the winter in the garage it was comfortable?".
Construction of garage doors
The construction of the garage door is simple, like a door with two doors. Therefore, the complexity for their warming can not arise in principle. Garage doors are a metal frame the size of a corner with a welded metal sheet from the outside. The corner for the manufacture of garage doors is used with a standard shelf width of 50 mm. By the width of the shelf you can navigate by choosing a heater for garage doors. The overall dimensions of the garage liner also have standard sizes of 2, 5 x 2 m.
Manufacturers of garage doors were imbued with an understanding of the owners of garages, therefore, in order to improve the protective and aesthetic properties, the construction of garage doors allowed the following functions:
• additional reinforced ribs
• Cutting swing gate
• anti-slip pins
• Mortise garage lock
• Possibility to produce heat insulation and interior finishing.
At the request of the client, the insulation of the garage door is made at the manufacturer.
If you plan to make the insulation of the garage door yourself, then you must first choose the necessary material for insulation.
How to choose a heater material
The choice of insulation material for garage doors is a very personal matter.
As a heater for garage doors, the following materials are most in demand:
• foam plastic insulation
• polyurethane foam
• extruded polystyrene foam
• mineral wool.
The simplest and inexpensive insulation is foam, with a density of at least 20kg / m3.
A more expensive option is an insulation with extruded and mineral wool. The technology of mounting and gluing the insulation, therefore, is slightly different.
If the foam plastic insulation can be glued directly to the door leaf, then for other types of insulation, it will be necessary to build a crate and install a film that is responsible for the vapor barrier and moisture removal.
After determining the material for insulation, you can proceed
preparation of the surface of the gate.
Preliminary work before the installation of insulation
Before installing the heater, the garage door area is measured in order to determine the total volume of the insulation surface.
Preliminary work on the insulation of garage doors will consist in cleaning the surface of the gate from dust and dirt, as well as other contaminants. The surface is washed off of dirt, wiped dry. Then you need to fix the mounting foam holes and slits. Excess dried foam is cut with a knife after the final hardening.
Insulation labeling
Depending on the structure and area of the garage door, the marking of the chosen insulation is made. Ideal option can be considered the full use of insulation sheets, excluding the seams and joints between the plates. Using the maximum insulation sheets, the unfilled space of the canvas can be pasted with pieces of polystyrene foam. When cutting insulation sheets, it is necessary to pay attention to the stiffeners of the gate structure. In the case where the corners strongly protrude above the plane of the web, the foam or other insulation is cut at an angle to the required thickness.
Bonding of a heater
It is recommended to use polyurethane adhesive-glue as an adhesive for gluing the insulation. What are the advantages of polyurethane foam adhesives? If you have never worked with foam, then work with it is simply a delight for most builders. Fast, easy and reliable! Here are the basic qualities of the mounting foam.
The technique of use and application is simple: the foam is applied to the insulation sheet, wait 5 minutes and then the sheet with the applied glue-foam is pressed against the working surface of the gate.
It is recommended to glue the heat insulation sheet from the bottom of the garage door. The first sheet does not press close to the surface, because it will be possible to destroy the structure of the foam. After pasting the first sheet, the next one is glued next to the process gap of about 1 cm. The resulting mesh between the insulation sheets will be filled later with mounting foam and sealant.
After the final drying of the bonded sheets of insulation, and the adhesive foam structure dries about 1 hour, the technological gaps and seams between the sheets, as well as joints fade completely.
Formed excess foam can be further removed with a sharp knife. For a more presentable appearance glued insulation can be sewed with a lining and hang a photo of your favorite movie star.
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