每日家庭整修技巧

Last summer during the frantic activity renovating our current 20 year old house which we had just purchased, we contacted a company to have the wooden and rotted garage door replaced.

Unfortunately we don’t have a picture of the original door, so this picture of the house before any renovations began will have to suffice.

Now, we had met at a local home and garden fair a company called Durham Doors. They took the time to explain their product, pricing and the like. They showed how they used a superiour roller to their competitors. So, we signed the contract and in late August we had ourselves a new, insullated garage door for our two car garage.

Now, notice in the above picture how the upper corners of the door frame are on 45 degree angles. This causes a ‘challenge’ when one is trying to install weather stripping. At the time Peter, from Durham Doors, indicated that we would not be able to use the premium weather stripping because of this 45 degree angle on the door frame.

So they installed a ‘regular’ type of weather stripping….and of course reduced the contracted price to us. So this type of weather stripping was affixed to the wood door frame with regular nails.

About 6 months later I was shovelling snow from the latest and greatest snow storm when I noticed something I did not like about the weather stripping. Do you see it in the picture below?

What about in this picture?

What had happened was that the nail heads of not just the nails in the above picture but of every single nail used for the entire weather stripping was rusting, after only 6 months. Non-galvanized metal nails will do that.

So I called Peter who remembered me and we agreed that once the weather cleared he would send a team over to deal with the situation. No questions asked.

About 2 weeks later the weather was such that one morning a truck pulled into our driveway and two men started to clean the rust off of the exposed nail heads. But, when we talked we all agreed that simply trying to remove the rust and them apply some type of coating on top of the nail head was not the long term answer. So, they said they would return with a more long term answer.

And, about 3 weeks later Peter called to book an appointment for his folks to come out and do the right thing.

Come back tomorrow to see how these great guys from Durham Doors solved our rusting nail issue. To continue with the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 2.