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These are the reasons why weatherstripping for garage doors is essential. Gone are the days when garages are used just to park our cars. Modern day garages now have multiple uses – as active living spaces, workshops, laundry area, and storage space for tools and other valuable belongings. As such, water, rain, dust and dirt must be prevented from getting into the tiny crevices and spaces around the garage door, and because it is used quite often now for purposes other than parking cars, the doors connecting it to the main house are often left open or are opened and closed more frequently than usual.
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The heat needed to keep the whole house warm can leak out of those tiny crevices raising your energy bill, also the possibility of rodents, insects, and other critters getting in to your house via these holes and tiny crevices in the garage doors and destroy whatever it is stored in the garage is likely!
Traditionally, all other openings in the house like doors, windows and trunks would have been weather tripped at that time it was built by the contractor - except for the garage doors (since garages were merely used for parking then), but since people now make good use of available garage spaces for other purposes aside from parking their cars, garage doors have to be weather stripped too. Weatherstripping is the sealing of doors, windows and other openings from elements such as rain, water, dust, dirt, insects, rodents, etc. They are also meant to keep interior air in and thus save on energy with heating or air conditioning units.
There are several types of weather stripping materials available in the market today with each one of them designed for a specific purpose or for a particular situation. Weather stripping for garage doors requires materials and designs different from those used in standard doors and windows. There are manufacturers who specialize on weather stripping for garage doors alone and manufacture varying materials for different types of garage doors.
Most weather stripping products come in kits, and they are readily available in most hardware stores. For garage doors, you should look for two things - the garage door bottom seal and the flexible rubber or vinyl flange type top and side panels. There are garage door seals for steel and fiberglass garage doors and garage door seals for wooden garage doors. Steel and fiberglass garage doors will normally have some sort of a retainer channel that holds the seal in place.
Wooden garage doors are normally mounted with nail on door seals and are easily installed. Flange Style top and side panels are the nail on type. Simply cut the panel into the exact fit and nail it on to the top and sides. There are also aluminum retainers where you can simply slide in weather stripping vinyl, rubber or brush seals. (Changing the seals is simple with this type of top and side weather stripping seal.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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