How To Seal Uneven Garage Door

The snirt stopper the ultimate garage door seal helps with little gaps medium gaps and large gaps up to 2.

How to seal uneven garage door.

The other if your door is still in good repair is to have us replace the bottom seal. Door panel weatherstripping is sold in rolls and is self adhesive. You simply stick it to the top or bottom edge of each panel. The factory seal that came with the door may simply need to be replaced u but if the ebb and flow of the garage floor has created a gap wider than the factory seal can effectively cover then we ll go a separate route.

If you have more than a 2 gap click here. This process goes faster if you lay the seal in a warm. Using a threshold seal will come in handy as well to block mice and other bugs. Put a ladder under the door to make sure it won t close accidentally while you re working on it.

If you want to keep your garage from rodents then use a rodent weather seal as a garage door bottom seal. Unroll the garage door seal to let it relax into a flat position. Open the door so the bottom is head high. Lay out the seal from one edge of the garage door.

If you have a wooden garage door rip off the nailed rubber seal. Be patient it takes a lot of pushing and pulling even with a helper. Buy enough of the pipe insulation to fit the width of the door. When the door is closed the panels compress the weatherstripping to create an effective seal much like weatherstripping on standard house entry doors.

In general installation goes like this. Keep the door open a few feet off the ground as this takes the pressure off the door springs. Position the pipe insulation on the bottom of the door so the slit will face down when the. Clean the area where the garage door meets the floor to encourage good adhesion.