Roll up doors insulation

[gabakusa]

i got one of those ford e350 98 with roll up doors 
and i want to be prepared for winter time 
-32F some times 
i did not find any tutorial about how to replace it with swing doors so i wonder if i can do something?
thanks

 

[highdesertranger]

I would get rid of the thing. they are next to impossible to seal and are very drafty.

all the parts are available for cargo trailer doors. for a swing door to seal it needs to be well built and fit the opening well. a shabby job here and you would be better off just leave the roll up. do not enclose it and use a residential door and window, you will be sorry down the road.

highdesertranger

 

[B and C]

Another option is to build a wall behind the rollup. This would have the added benefit of giving you a little garage space.

 

[gabakusa]

You can insulate them the same way as garage doors, but that will eatup some of your overhead space. There are lots of Youtube videos about insulating garage doors, you use poly-iso. But in your case, since you need more flexibility, you can use the pink stuff from home depot, it comes in 1/4'' sheets, and you can use a double layer to cut the draft and keep the heat inside.
Good luck.

 

[gabakusa]

Another option is to build a wall behind the rollup.  This would have the added benefit of giving you a little garage space.

 

[gabakusa]

You can insulate them the same way as garage doors, but that will eatup some of your overhead space. There are lots of Youtube videos about insulating garage doors, you use poly-iso. But in your case, since you need more flexibility, you can use the pink stuff from home depot, it comes in 1/4'' sheets, and you can use a double layer to cut the draft and keep the heat inside.
Good luck.

 

[gabakusa]

this is my truck and I want to be able to be stealthy as posible 
as you can see at the corner is not insulated inside where the door goes

 

[RogerD]

I don't have a box truck yet, but will be getting one.

The way I see it is that you are just screwed with a regular roll-up door. It just seems that insulating it well is never going to happen. Since it's on tracks, building a partition to block it off isn't feasible.

If you want a roll-up door, get one like they use at storage facilities. It's not on tracks, it actually rolls up. If I recall, it uses up about 18 inches, you can get as cheap as $400 ish and they weight about 150 lbs. You could then build a partition right behind it that you could insulate well. Google storage unit roll-up door.

When I get mine, I'm leaning towards just removing it and sealing it off and adding an RV door on the side.

 

[66788]

Roll up doors are fine, I like mine.  I built a bulkhead 15" in from the roll up and installed Dutch doors.  The ceiling is dropped and fully insulated per pics.  Don't let the nay sayers convince you otherwise.

 

[highdesertranger]

I have seen 66788's set up it's top notch. highdesertranger

 

[maki2]

If you need a wider door in that partition wall behind the roll up door just install a set of French Doors which means a pair of narrower doors. They come in all kinds of widths from around 3' 6" wide opening on up to close to 7' wide opening. But you won't have the space to swing open a really wide pair and I would imagine that the width of a standard 3' wide house door is enough. In which case you could put in a pair of 18" doors. They do make gasket sets for French doors so getting them draft free will not be an issue. If you were in the Seattle area there is a company that takes the doors you choose, will cut them to length or width, put them into a door frame of the width you need for your framed wall and also install the threshold and the gaskets. They even carry good deals on seconds...slightly blemished doors. I have had them build up special sized french door sets for me in the past. As well as other doors that needed to be resized in a surround. https://www.franklumber.com/