Easy directions that even un-handymen and women can follow for installing weather stripping on a garage door.
Any noticeable space beneath your garage door allows heat to escape and elements and debris to enter your garage. By closing the gap between your garage floor and your garage door, you can reduce your heating bills. Weather stripping is one of the easiest ways to accomplish this. It may look complicated, but it's actually quite simple. The easy instructions below can help even a novice feel like a pro.
Materials: You will need garage weather stripping, a tape measure, flat head nails, a hammer, a pencil, a tape measure and scissors. NOTE: Most weather stripping kits include nails. If these are not included in your kit, roofing nails can be used.
Process:
1. Open your garage door so you can comfortably reach its bottom edge.
2. Measure the width of the door. Garage weather stripping can be purchased at most hardware stores and comes in packages of either 10 or 30 feet. (Two, 10-foot packages can be used by meeting the ends in the middle.)
3. If your door already has rubber weather stripping along the edge, you can either remove it by prying the nails out with a screwdriver, or you can tack the new weather stripping directly on top of the existing weather stripping for an extra seal.
4. If you are using two packages of the 10-foot weather stripping as opposed to the one, 30-foot package, you will need to mark the center of your garage door. Using the tape measure, measure the width of the garage door and divide that number in half. Clearly mark the center of the door's bottom ledge with a pencil.
5. Lay out the nails along the concrete threshold of the garage so they are evenly spaced. There is no need to measure precisely. This process will help you determine where to place the nails in the weather stripping.
6. Unroll the weather stripping. DO NOT CUT THE WEATHER STRIPPING UNTIL YOU ARE FINISHED NAILING. Starting on the left side of the garage door. Place the weather stripping so that the rounded lip of the weather stripping faces toward the back of the garage and the sloped ledge of the weather stripping hangs down in front. Position the flat part of the weather stripping along the bottom edge of the door.
7. Work from the left side of the garage door to the right. Pick up the first nail and hammer it into the bottom of the door. Continue nailing all along the strip. Using the scissors cut the weather stripping off at the right side where it meets the right side of the garage door. If you are using two sections of stripping, cut the stripping when you get to the pencil mark, which indicates the door's center, then continue with the second piece of stripping. Trim it off when you get to the end of the door.
8. Check the floor to make certain there are no remaining nails. (You don't want to run over these with your tires.)
That's all there is to it. It's that easy and simple.
