3009 Garage Door Insulation Kit

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Great product. They were easy to install. I bought gorilla tape instead of the supplied sticky squares and used two kits for a 16’ door. The gorilla tape ran out after one kit so I used the supplies tape on the other half. Time will tell if gorrila tape is with it. I had to trim some pieces but it is easy to cut with scissors. I can tell a big difference with the garage temperature.

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!.

Offers some protection from the suns heat. Installed fairly easy so we do recommend.

The media could not be loaded. This product worked as advertised. Only had to trim half the panels. The rest fit with no cuts. Make sure you measure ALL your garage door panels. My top row was not as tall as the other rows. Outside panels were the full 48" wide, but the middle panels were only 46.5" wide. I laid a 2x4 edge-wise on the panel as a guide and cut the panels with a box cutter. One pass was all that was needed. They cut very easily. The height of the door panels was about 20" and I did not cut these at all. I jammed the extra 2" top and bottom into the lip of the panel and it stayed in place nicely. I did not even need the 2 sided tape. Otherwise this product went in very easy. Less than 1 hour to install 8x16 door. (2 boxes). Looks great and reduced the temperature in my Phoenix garage by 16 degrees!

This was a super easy install. Had to trim the pieces to fit, but, it’s easy to trim. Just used scissors. Yeah there’s not enough sticky squares provided but, I used less and had just enough. The trick is to cut the pieces bigger than the space so that you have extra around the edges to tuck into the garage door spaces. So far it’s staying really well. It does take two boxes to complete an average two car garage btw. The garage is warmer. Super happy with my purchase! Highly recommend!

Rather thin product. Needs to come with more adhesive tabs to mount them otherwise make sure you get more before starting or you will be heading to the store. Otherwise did the job but like I said very thin product. Easy to install

This is a great product. I installed two kits on my double garage door in about two hours.The material is two sheets of bubble wrap coated on both sides with foil. Easy to cut with scissors. Measure and start the cut then just follow the bubbles.Around the garage door windows I installed the material then used a razor blade to cut out the window.Cut the panels to size then test fit into the opening. Pull back half the sheet and install the center sticker. Then roll it back almost to the edge. Install the sticker then push into place. Raise the other edge and do the same.Cut the panels a little bigger than your measurements. Clean the garage door surface before starting.Reduced garage temp about 20 degrees.Very well designed product. Easy install. I had plenty of stickers.

Idk what to say besides this product made absolutely zero difference in the temp of my garage. Now, my garage faces the west (setting sun) and is white in color. So it has the elements mostly stacked up against it. It gets easily 90 degrees in there by the evening. I installed these panels last night to see if they’d make any difference today. And sadly they didn’t change a thing. It was even cloudy today. Still over 90 degrees in there this evening.I’d also like to point out that these were a pain in the a$$ to install. Each one has to be cut to fit. With two people it might not have been so bad but I had to do this by myself and it was dreadfully tedious. They should make them in standard garage door sizes to save you the back and hand pain. Just saying.I have one experiment to try. And if it proves fruitful, I’ll update my review. I did take one trip to the store this afternoon so maybe the car heated up the garage and turned it into the oven it currently is.