Getting a good seal on garage door

[Paddy]

Hello

With Winter soon around the corner, time to make sure the house is sealed up. The one weakness I have found is garage doors. The one I have is a new Overhead door brand. It is a solid and well insulated. The issue I have is the sealing at the lower corners. The top and sides have a rigid plastic strip with a rubber flap. The bottom has the classic foam hollow circle that flattens as the door comes down. The bottom is sealed along the length.

The problem is how garage doors are mounted, flush to the inside framing. This makes the center of the door an inch away from the framing. In the dark, you can take a flash light and see there is quite a large hole where the foam round lower gasket doesn't meet with the side flaps. Mice have found this and chew away. A short term, keep the cold out is to stuff soft foam in the corner before closing.

It just seams like a bad design. The big soft bottom gasket is designed to allow for uneven floor issues. I'm thinking of replacing it with a thinner solid foam gasket. I figure if I can get the door with 1/4" of the floor, no mouse is chewing it's way in. Then use a block of wood to fill in the gap.

Anyone else notice how bad garage doors seal?

Paddy

 

[MoKelly]

Yes -- I know what you mean. Same experience except chip munks do the eating the rubber. I have watched them do the deed.

However, on mine the corbers work fine. It's the middle that is the issue and its because of the groove put into the concrete floor. The door closes right on the groove but doesn't plug the groove.

Wierd what we think about sometimes.

MoKelly

 

[dave1949]

Had the corner chewing here too. My bottom seal is a hollow rubber/plastic tube, so I rolled up some scrap stove pipe sheet metal and slid it in with enough hanging out to fill the gap. The tendency to want to unroll keeps the metal in place.

If the mice are determined, they can get past it, but I made it harder on the little devils.