By closing the gap between your garage door and your garage floor, you will certainly reduce your heating bills. One of the easiest ways to do this is with a garage door weatherstripping. Garage door weatherstripping is actually not too difficult, even if you do not consider yourself much of a DIY expert.
If you get the use the correct tools and take your time, you should manage it. The steps below will give you a very basic guide to get you started, and you will soon have solved your garage door insulation problem. Before you begin you will need certain materials: tape measure, hammer, pencil, flat-headed nails, scissors and of course garage weather stripping this comes in packages of 10 or 30 feet; if you need 20 feet use two 10 foot strips.
You can buy weather stripping kits, which should include nails. Next, measure the door width. Your door may already have rubber weather stripping along its edge that you will need to either remove by pulling the nails out with a screwdriver, or cover with the new weather stripping — the latter option gives you the benefit of an extra seal. This will make it easier for you to determine where in the weather stripping the nails should be placed.
Next, unpack the weather stripping. It is crucial that you leave it completely intact until you are positive you have finished nailing. Working your way from the left hand side of the garage door to the right, place the stripping along the bottom edge of the garage door make sure the curved lip of the stripping faces the back of the garage. Work along the edge, hammering each nail into the bottom of the door.
With your scissors cut the weather stripping off where it meets the right side of the garage door. Finally, here are a couple of things to note…make sure you purchase a good quality, durable garage door weather seal which will stand up to years of wear and tear. Never stretch the garage door weather strip, as this will decrease its effectiveness.
Square cut the PVC, do not miter and use the utility knife to cut the vinyl flap the same length as the PVC portion of the weather seal. Now temp nail the top seal to the jamb, you want the inside edge of the PVC portion to be even with the inside edge of the jamb. Put enough temp nails in to hold the seal up against the jamb. Now measure and cut the side pieces. Setting the inside edge of the PVC flush with the inside of the door jamb just as you did with the top piece, temp nail the two sides in place.
Remove the clamps, close the door and re clamp the door closed tightly to the floor. Now it is time to set the weather seal in place. No part of the PVC portion is to touch the garage door,.
You want the vinyl to form a J shape to the door, not a 90 degree angle. Temp nail top and sides. Remove clamps and open and close the door a few times, by hand to be sure that the weather seal is not impeding the garage door in any way. Once this has been checked out, close and clamp the door down and set the nails.
Do not nail through the PVC without pre drilling. The exception to that is in extreme cold, pre drill all in extreme cold. Now using a good quality colored calk, calk at the leading edge of the PVC where it meets the jamb. This will prevent air from getting in under and behind the weather seal. We also run a bead of calk at the point.
It is recommended to leave the door closed for a few days if possible,. My Account Cart.
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