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Gaskets are available in various sizes to fit different size doors.

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This seal is designed to block drafts but can become brittle and cracked overtime, and start to let the cold air in.

The bottom of the door: If your garage door is more than a couple of years old, it’s also a good idea to replace the seal, or garage door threshold, where the door meets the floor.

The self-adhesive strips will help close the gaps so cold drafts can’t enter. Fortunately, you can quickly address these spots with an integrated weather-strip seal like M-D Building Products’ Vinyl Garage Door Top and Sides Seal.

The garage door frame: Garage doors don’t fit tightly in their frames-small gaps run all the way around the door.

To get started, take a walk around your garage, focusing on these three most likely sources of drafts. Investing in insulation and heaters will help you keep your garage comfortable in the winter, but you should also seal any gaps that let cold drafts blow through. RELATED: So, You Want to… Insulate a Garage Door 4. While the Reach Barrier kit will insulate one standard garage door, garages with oversize doors (or two or more doors) will require additional kits. When selecting the best garage door insulation kit, be sure to measure your doors carefully. And the process isn’t so intimidating for do-it-yourselfers, thanks to kits like Reach Barrier’s Garage Door Insulation Kit, which contain all of the necessary supplies. An insulated garage door can make the space an average of 10 to 12 degrees warmer in winter, even before you crank up any heaters. Insulating the door will help keep the cold outside air from transferring indoors and cooling the workshop. In fact, if you live in a northern climate, it’s not unusual to find frost clinging to the inside of a metal garage door. Often manufactured from thin metal, garage doors are notoriously cold in winter. Insulated and finished walls will help retain heat in the garage, and you’ll save money on heating bills.

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To create an insulated barrier, install fiberglass batt insulation (such as Johns Manville R-19 fiberglass batt insulation ) in each stud space and then finish the interior walls by installing drywall panels, plywood sheets, or oriented strand board (OSB). Insulating a garage is a project that’s easy enough for most homeowners to take on themselves. Without garage insulation, cold air outside will quickly transfer to the inside of the garage and detract from your heating efforts. Many garage walls consist of just the studs, covered on the outside with sheathing and siding. No matter how much power your garage heater packs, you’ll find it difficult to maintain comfortable warmth in your garage if the walls aren’t finished. Finish the walls with fiberglass batt insulation and paneling. As hot water runs through the pipes in the heater, warm air radiates out into the space, keeping things toasty at floor level and beyond. Hydronic baseboard heaters like the Slant/Fin Fine/Line Hydronic Baseboard Heater are hooked up to a home’s boiler. If your feet are still chilly, try supplementing with a baseboard heater placed where you’re most apt to be working-one likely spot is the area beneath your workbench. The only downside to a ceiling-mounted heater is that the inches nearest the floor may remain cold. Most of today’s ceiling-mounted heaters come with a remote control and a thermostat so you can set the temperature you prefer and rely on the shop heater to do the rest. (Be sure to read our review of the Comfort Zone Garage Heater, which is another terrific ceiling-mounted option.) This type of heater is best situated in a corner of the garage, pointed downward at a 45-degree angle to provide the best distribution of warmth. Infrared 10,000-Watt Ceiling-Mounted Garage Heater, making sure that it is adequately sized for the square footage of your garage. If you’re looking for a serious heat source, consider installing a ceiling-mounted forced-air heating unit such as the hardwired Dr. Most of these options, however, aren’t powerful enough to heat an entire garage.

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Visit your local home improvement store in late fall, and you’ll find aisles of portable space heaters, both large and small.