Insulating Garage Roof

Regulate your garage s temperature all year by installing insulation.

Insulating garage roof.

Adding insulation won t make your garage a perfect temperature by itself but it will take the edge off the freezing winters and the sweltering summers. You can insulate the walls ceiling and door of the garage to the highest r value possible but if you fail to fill those air gaps you ll still be wasting a lot of heat. In either case you will need to follow the general steps below to insulate your garage roof. When a previously insulated room above the garage exists before the conversion then roof insulation will not be an issue and you will not have to add extra insulation to the garage ceiling.

Be sure to count the spaces above doors and windows. The regulating temperature has positive effects on your cooling and heating costs. I wrote a big article discussing whether you should insulate your garage. So before insulating go around the garage with a can of low expanding spray foam and seal all gaps and cracks that let in the daylight.

The task of insulating a garage roof is not hard to complete if you follow a few tips and hints. One of the best methods you can use if you want to regulate the temperature of your garage is to insulate the garage roof. If you have a flat garage roof and an attic above you can install the garage insulation from below using a standard ladder. If your garage is attached to your house you will notice a big difference in your home s temperature as well.