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Our garages are home to everything from our cars to gardening tools and much-loved toys. Garages can also be home to draughts, damp and pests if not cared for properly. By securing your garage door properly, you can help protect your belongings from a wide range of conditions and protect your valued belongings for years to come. When it comes to bottom garage door seal types, there are a few options to choose from. Our guide takes you through some of the most common and how they could help protect your garage.
Using a garage door threshold seal is one of the key ways you can protect your garage and its belongings against anything life throws at it. Weatherproofing your garage floor means less chance of your garage flooding and other weather-related problems your garage could face. By adding a garage door floor seal or even a garage door bottom seal for an uneven floor, the amount of damp that is able to enter your garage is vastly reduced, whether this is floodwater or simply damp caused by wet weather.
Adding a bottom garage door seal to your garage door can also help protect against issues such as dust or debris from entering into your garage from gaps between the garage door bottom and your garage floor. If you are tired of brushing dust and leaves from the inside of your garage door, fitting a garage door bottom brush seal could solve your problems.
Whenever there is a semi-outdoor space around our homes, pests will always be an issue. If your garage door has even a slight gap between door and floor, pests will be able to enter your garage and access anything you store inside of it. By using a garage door threshold seal, you will be able to seal up that gap and prevent any potential pests from entering and destroying any of your belongings stored inside of the garage.
As an extension of your home, the energy efficiency of your garage can affect your whole home. A heat-losing garage can cause draughts to enter your home and cost you more money to heat, particularly during the winter months. There are a range of different garage door bottom seal types that can help with this problem and help make your home more efficient to help both the planet and your pocket.
Garage threshold seals such as rubber floor seals can seal any gaps at the bottom of your garage door forming a waterproof barrier to any draughts and preventing heat from leaving your garage and your home.
If pests, leaves or draughts are a problem in your garage, a rubber blade garage door seal is the perfect addition to your door frame. Rubber blade bottom garage door seals act as a barrier to external problems such as mice or other pests and prevent leaves from entering your garage from underneath your garage door. These are ideal for a range of door sizes and can be ordered to size to help pest-proof your garage.
For a simple and effective solution to weatherproofing your garage, one of the most popular types of garage door seals is a garage door sweep or a brush strip garage door seal. Brush strips can be fitted to the bottom of your garage door to cover any exposed gaps that may be letting in things such as leaves, dust, debris, pests or water. Brush strips can be supplied with or without holes and screws to allow you to easily fix to your garage door however is easiest for you.
If water ingress in your garage is a problem for you, the best type of garage door seal will be a rubber floor seal. These seals attach to the floor of your garage and meet the garage door as it closes forming a watertight seal and weatherproofing your garage door. Rubber floor seals can be found in a range of thicknesses to seal even the biggest of gaps under your garage door against bad weather and water and are simple to fit.
If you are looking for more information on what type of garage door bottom seal is best for your home, take a look at our garage door seal collection here or contact our team to find out more.