Kawartha Door Specialists · Kawartha Lakes
Garage Door Perimeter Weatherstrip: getting ready
Garage Doors · Kawartha Lakes, Ontario
The new door went in last year and looks perfect, but the old wooden stop and its tired seal were left in place. Along the top there is a gap you could slide a finger into, and the cold pours through it.
Worth answering before the call
Is the seal cracked, torn, loose, or missing in places? Have mice, leaves or water been getting in? Has the door recently been replaced or adjusted?
Will replacing the perimeter seal keep mice out?
It closes one of their favourite routes. Mice enter at the open corners where the header and side seals meet and along a fin that has shrunk back from the door, so a continuous, overlapped seal removes those gaps. It works alongside a sound bottom seal, a swept threshold and attention to any other openings in the garage wall, and a technician will point out any of those noticed during the visit.
Does it matter if my garage is detached and unheated?
The seal still earns its place. It keeps driven snow, rain, leaves and animals out of the garage and off whatever is stored there, and it stops the door edges rattling in the wind. For an attached or heated garage the comfort benefit to the house is added on top. The technician may suggest a simpler fin replacement for a detached shell and a one-piece stop where the garage is lived beside.