[Greenbuilding] Insulated garage doors

Steve Houlihan sho11 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 26 21:56:11 CDT 2012


Are you asking about a door between the living space and the garage or 
the door you would drive a car through to park it in the garage?

Steve


On 7/25/12 4:43 AM, Paul Hadfield wrote:
>
> Thanks to all for the fascinating learning experiences on this list.
>
> Just a private enquiry, and after largely lurking here for several 
> years I feel I should know the answer to this, but can anyone point me 
> to the right way to go with finding some (or an) environmentally 
> optimal, well-draught-proofed and well-insulated, door(s) for a 
> built-in garage, preferably of a sort available in the UK, for our house.
>
> The garage is within the (ground-level) thermal envelope of the house, 
> and is used largely for storage, but possibly for future use as a 
> workshop if it can be well insulated (and cleared out!).
>
> Our house is 1955 cavity wall of typical brick and concrete block 
> construction in the English east midlands, and our existing side-hung 
> softwood doors, with windows in them, have suffered poor maintenance 
> over the years since the house was built, but are otherwise 
> aesthetically pleasing to us.
>
> Thanks in anticipation.
>
> Paul Hadfield
> Springside
> Scotland Lane
> Burton Overy
> Leicester
> paul at hadfields . org . uk
>
>
>
>
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