3009 Garage Door Insulation Kit

I live in the high desert. My garage door faces west. All afternoon the sun is beating directly on my garage door.I installed these yesterday. I have not take any thermometer readings but normally my garage gets to about 90° in the afternoon in the summer months. It is usually as warm in my garage as it is outside.Yesterday when I went into the garage at 6:00 p.m. the temperature was approximately 75° instead of 90°. So far so good.Easy installation. I will say that as I learned little secrets about how to place both the stickies and how to get the panel in place before it's stuck to the stickies I got much better at it. Consequently the first two don't look as good as the next six panels. I had to trim all 8 panels but it was easy. You can cut them with a shop knife but I found it much easier using some good scissors that I had. Supplying the panels a little too big than too small in my opinion.Made in USA! I highly recommend this product.P. S. I bought extra stickies from the same manufacturer and feel better about having 12 stickies per 24x48 panel instead of the 6 per panel that were supplied. This may be overkill on my part.

I looked at the published R-values of this product and NASA Tech. They are both broadly listed as R-21. There are better insulating products available usually of the fiberglass batt type but these can be "dirty" and difficult products to install. The NASA Tech originally looked like the best bet but to install it, I would have had to remove the hurricane straps (5 of them), unroll the NASA Tech, marking the holes where the hurricane straps were bolted and reinstall the hurricane straps and bolts. Not a small job. I elected to purchase Reach Barrier becasue of the pre-cut panels. First, one box covers a single car garage door. For my project I needed two boxes for a 7'h X 16'w door. Second, each panel in the Reach Barrier Kit is 24" X 48". There's enough product to do 16, 24" X 24" panels per box Third, not every panel on my garage door (an Amarr Product) is the same size. The outside panels (closest to the roller tracks) are 25" wide, 21" high. The others are all 23"w X 21"h. Each panel had to be trimmed from the stock panels in the kit. I started the project by myself by marking the dimensions with a marker, labeled the L corner and top of each trimmed panel and would trim the stock panels to size using a long straight edge (a level) and box cutter. The panels trim neatly and easily with a box cutter. I switched to one person cutting (my wife) and the other (me) installing it - that saved a lot of getting up and down from one's knees. The first 4 or so panels cut and installed solo were slow going; it took about 10-15 minutes each panel to trim and install it. Going slow like this with one person doing the cutting and installing would take almost 3h to do one half of this project, 6h total. Too long. Get the wife, save my knees! Once we got a system going we did the other 28 panels in about 90 minutes. They advantage of the Reach Barrier product over the NASA tech is that I was able to install the cut panels without removing the hurricane straps. If you look closely at the photos of the completed garage door, you may note that the hurricane straps will actually hold some of the panels in place (there is enough space between the aluminum panels and the hurricane straps to easily work the cut panels under them). I started out using the stickies per the instructions. The problem with that was installing the stickies on the panel, removing the top covering of each of them then trying to slide a panel under a hurricane strap without the panel sticking to them until in place. After screwing up one panel that way I stopped putting the stickies on all four corners and in the middle. Instead I started cutting the panels 1/4 " longer in each dimension. Voi-la. They fit snuggly in place (mostly). If there was a saggy corner, I'd put a sticky under it by rolling the corner back, placing the sticky then unrolling the corner onto the sticky. That was only required on a couple of panels. The design of the door made it possible to jab that 1/4" extra of material in a grove and it stayed in that grove even with the door operating multiple times to test this technique. I imagine that wouldn't work on some door designs with or without Hurricane straps and you'd have to use the sticky is The important thing for DIY'ers is that you can easily install this product successfully even when leaving horizontal hurricane straps on the door. As for performance, I'm impressed so far. My garage door faces west and in the afternoon the door gets blazing hot - likely over 110 degrees. The garage is uninhabitable in the heat of the day with inside garage temps reaching 102 - 103 and it is presently serving as a storage area for heat sensitive things. I'd estimate that the insulation alone drops the ambient temperature inside the garage 8-10 degrees in the heat of the day with full sun on the door. Low 90s is still uncomfortable. My garage is about 450 SqFt. I just installed a 10000 BTU portable room AC that ducts (intake and exhaust) out the garage window. With it set at 80 degrees, it has no problem getting the ambient temp down to just under 80 degrees - comfortable for us. In the heat of the FL sun, the combo of a portable AC and the garage door insulated with the Reach Barrier product makes the garage a useable space. All I need now is a solar shade for the 48" X 48" window that I noted today leaks a lot of radiant heat now that the garage door isn't doing that!.

One box will do half of a two-car garage. Pretty easy install. I wouldn't bother using the little sticky tabs that they include. For me. They didn't work. I could not get them to stick to my garage at all. Could be me though. Although for the size I just literally stuck them in and they were able to fit in their snug. I'm probably going to buy another box to finish it off. Great for the price.

This is a life changer product. I live in AZ and it can get up to 110 degrees in summer time. During summer, my garage would reach over 120 degrees due that the sun will hit my garage door from 2pm till sunset and it would be a nightmare trying to work in my truck in my garage at that temperature. I installed these insulation sheets in mid April and I can already feel the huge difference. From the pictures, I took the temperature when it was about 85 degrees outside and my garage temperature was about 75 degrees; which is perfect if I’m trying to do something in my garage. I can already imagine my garage sitting at about 70-80 degrees when it’s over 100 degrees outside. It took me about 40 minutes to install all 16 sheets ( for a 2 car garage) and thats because I had to measure and cut the sheets to fit perfectly in the garage door slots. Definitely worth the money!

These were super easy to install AND they work! A good pair of scissors or box cutter and you’re good to go. Hubby and I were able to do the entire 2 car garage door (16 closed panels & 4 window panels) in less than an hour. Used a thermometer to gauge temperature before installation and the panels were between 108-113 degrees Fahrenheit. After install, the panels were immediately showing between 96-98.7 degrees Fahrenheit. Wow- what a difference! Our home gets beat with the afternoon sun, so only time will tell how they hold up over a long hot summer, but so far we are very optimistic! Will update when temperatures outside exceed over 100 degrees F.

Very easy to install. Used gorilla glue double sided tape in place of the flimsy supplied sticky tabs.Bought it to try and keep the garage cooler. One big problem is that if you park a hot car in the garage the insulation turns it into a giant convection oven. Best to leave a hot car outside until it cools off.

Purchased three kits for a single and double garage door. Very easy to install and I did not need to use the adhesive tape squares. It has made a difference in keeping the heat temperature down in the garage. Highly recommend.