How To Cut Garage Door Seal

Clean the door bottom photo 2 then cut the new rubber seal to length with a razor knife.

How to cut garage door seal.

Door sweeps come in standard sizes but if you cannot find one. Trim the soft weather stripping at the top of the side pieces at about a 45 degree angle so the top and side pieces overlap nicely. How to replace bottom weather seal on your garage door. In this episode dave mars shows how to better insulate your garage door to help save energy and money.

Be patient it takes a lot of pushing and pulling even with a helper. 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. Hold each of the side pieces in place and nail them in the same fashion as you nailed the header piece. When the door opens the rubber flexes so as not to be an impediment and when the door closes the rubber provides a strong air seal.

Measure and cut the side pieces so they touch the header piece and extend to the garage floor. New weatherstripping comes in rolls and you can easily cut it to length with a utility knife. Put enough temp nails in to hold the seal up against the jamb. Thread the t shaped edges into the weather seal track then slide the seal across the door.

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.