Daily Home Renovation Tips

Yesterday in Part 1 we wrote about the issue we had with the rusting nails on the weather stripping for our 6 month old insulated garage door. Today we find the solution. And, unlike some of our other home renovation experiences, this one does indeed have a happy ending.

Peter, sales manager of Durham Doors personally returned with the person who originally installed our door 6 months earlier. Now, as part of their premium long lasting garage doors Peter has his crews used a premium weather stripping. However, last year they did not have a way to cut such a weather stripping for a garage door frame that included 45 degree angles as our does.

This year, they came up with a way of doing this. So Peter and his crew proceeded to remove (carefully of course to not damage the existing wood frame not it’s grey paint) the initial weather stripping and install this new type.

Not being in the garage door business myself, this type of weather stripping is actually pretty cool. It contains not one, not two but three inter-locking pieces; two are made of the same hard plastic and the third is made from a flexible rubberized material. In the picture below, the rubberized flexible piece is on the top.

In the above picture, the screw is driven into the larger hard plastic part in the picture above followed by the hard plastic slider covering the screw. Here’s a picture of what it looks like from the back, or the side that goes against the garage door frame.

What to me is really cool about this type of weather stripping is that it hides the metal hardware used to attach the weather stripping to the wood door frame, which provides for a very finished look. And, with this type of weather stripping Peter was able to attach it with screws, rather than nails. Notice the screw in the picture below before the covering hard plastic piece is inserted.

Here is a picture with the hard plastic covering slid into position hiding the screws.

Lastly, here is  what the finished installation looks like. Very attractive, we think.

Thanks very much, Peter, for making things right!