Richard J Kinch wrote:
George Eberhardt writes:

As far as I can see, the installations are so bad
that there is no point in paying for insulation.

Yours is a typical misunderstanding.

Garages are cost-effective because they control humidity, not
temperature. The real enemy to your car is a condensing atmosphere,
which a garage mostly eliminates, even if unheated and even if
uninsulated. Ordinary jamb seals and panel seals work fine to
eliminate infiltration of damp outside air.

The amortized cost of a garage is less than the amortized cost of
corrosion to your ungaraged-vs-garaged car, for typical cases of
"garage" and "car".


While you generally will save on insurance and maybe increase resale
value and may protect the paint from sun damage with a garage; in the snow
belt, you will generally cause more corrosion damage with a garage. Keeping
the car below the freeze point will keep the salt and water inactive.
Putting it in a garage, which will generally be warmer, will warm it above
the freeze point and corrosion will start.

So it typically *costs* you money *not* to have a garage.

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Joseph Meehan

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