How To Change Garage Door Bottom Seal

How to Install Garage Door Bottom Seal

Two men crouching by a garage door to install new garage door weatherstripping

If the weather seal (aka lesser seal or weatherstripping) on your garage door is cracking or non making a tight seal to the basis, information technology�s time to supercede it. We�ll walk you through how to supersede your garage door weather seal in 6 steps.

What you�ll need to supersede your garage door weather seal:

New garage door atmospheric condition seal
New retainer and cocky-borer screws (if your retainer is rusty or coming apart from the door)
Socket wrench or screwdriver (depending on how your track is attached to the garage door)
Bucket of warm water
Rag
Concentrated dish lather (similar Dawn®)
Strong pair of scissors
Extra person

Tip: Brand certain you have the right atmospheric condition seal for the servant (the retainer is the metallic strip on the bottom of the garage door that has a rail for the weather seal). If the top of the seal doesn�t lucifer the aluminum retainer, yous won�t be able to complete the job.

How to supervene upon your erstwhile garage door atmospheric condition seal:

Remove the retainer past using the socket wrench or screwdriver.
Tip: If you�re cutting a new retainer, get to minute 2:fifteen of this video. (How practise you know if you need a new garage door servant? If the retainer is rusty, coming apart from the door or not sealing properly, buy a new one.)
Remove the old rubber seal by pulling information technology through the rail.
Wash the retainer rail with a rag and soapy h2o to remove residue. (Don�t skip this! It volition help when information technology�due south time to install the new garage door weatherstripping.)
Squeeze a small amount of dish soap in the retainer track to lubricate it. And so, feed the weather seal into the rail (ridges of the seal facing outward) while the other person pulls it down the retainer.
Cut off the excess seal with scissors. If there are caps for the weather seal, put them on the ends.
Reattach the runway to your garage door while the other person holds it in place.

At that place you have it! A new weather seal to keep out rodents, drafts and dust. Nice job!