Reach Barrier Garage Door Insulation Kit, Reflective, 8x8 Single Door

Bought 2 of these kits for our 16 panel garage door. They’ve been installed for 6 months now, and they are definitely helping keep the temperature more tolerable. I’d estimate a 15-20 degree difference. Our garage door is in full sun all afternoon, and it used to be unbearable inside. But now it’s actually very usable. As recommended by another reviewer, I pitched the included tape squares, and used Gorilla 2 sided tape. So far it’s holding up well.

Didn't have to cut, just folded edges to fit and used the included sticky squares. I'm in SC where it's been over 100 degrees almost every day and the panels are still in place, sticky squares still holding. While it was fairly easy to install, I don't recommend doing it with your husband, it's like hanging wallpaper together, just don't do it LOL I also purchased a window a/c unit, but after installing this insulation, it doesn't have to work as hard and the garage stays cool. My door has 16 "rectangles/sections", so I ordered 2 boxes, which was just enough. Also reduced the noise level of the door going up/down.

Great product. Worked well to insulate our garage, as well as keep the rooms above warmer. If you have windows on your garage, the silver material will show though. We didn’t think about that until we had already installed it. We have a 2 car garage and we needed 2 boxes.

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!.

Easy install. Box is enough for 1 garage (single) door. Not enough stickers and based on reviews, I purchased more from the hardware store. Measured and used scissors to cut which was easy. Looks great. Quality seems good also, thickness, not too heavy. I’m in NE Florida. The insulation has made a huge improvement!!!

I don’t feel any difference in the garage. It was easy to work with and installation was easy. I thought the stick squares were very good a keeping them on the door. Not sure how much benefit.

Quick and easy to install and actually makes a difference! The sun directly hits my garage door majority of the day and working from my office in the garage gets a bit uncomfortable in the summer. The garage has significantly felt cooler throughout the day and has helped with keeping the cool from small ac in the whole garage rather than just the corner where it's set up like before installing these.

2 degrees difference between applying this product and bare garage door. I spent 90 minutes cutting the product to size and installing it according to instructions. I was happy with the application but totally disappointed in practicality. My garage doors don’t get direct sunlight but it over 100 degrees inside my three car garage in the summer time in Southern California. I have a double garage door side and a single garage door side. I decided to do the small garage door first so I could compare it against the uninsulated side. Installation was straightforward and easy. After completing the install I took my infrared thermometer and hit the uninsulated double garage door. It showed 107.5. I then hit the insulated single garage door and it read 105.3. Two degrees!! Totally not worth the effort and money. No discernible difference. Save your money on this product.

Why sell a garage door insullation kit for only part of an average garage door? Does not make sense. Deceptive.

Worked perfectly and easy to cut and install. Was worried about adding too much weight to the garage door with other types of insulation and this lighter version of insulation did the trick

Very easy installation. Gives it a clean finish. One thing I will say is I suggest getting more of the stickems or using an adhesive spray when installing. The provided stickems did not do a good enough job keeping the insulation panels in place.

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Did the job while we were waiting for new door