Being that I live in Arizona, and being that my shop is my garage, and being that my garage door is thin aluminum, the heat radiates through the door as if it were it a magnifying glass pointed at it, reflecting the sun directly into me.
But it’s a dry heat, you say? Well, it’s not dry when you step outside, or in this case, my garage, and start sweating immediately.
So after about a month of sweating it out in there, I decided I needed to do something about it. So I searched online for what others have done. And using the foam insulation seemed like the most popular choice and it seemed easy enough to do.
And it was.. easy to cut, easy to glue but a pain in the ass to shove in some of the slots in the panels of the garage door. Others went just fine but there were a few where you have 3 sides you need to bend and flex the foam to get it to fit in place. This is because there are ridges in those panels and you have to cut the foam to fit into the ridges, meaning your foam piece is actually bigger than the opening.