Weatherproofing Your Garage Door

As the winter nights draw in and the bad weather approaches our thoughts turn to how to weatherproof our home against the elements to keep it cosy during the colder months. Weatherproofing your garage door using weather stripping and other types of garage door seals can help ensure any damp, draughts or other nuisances stay out of your garage space and as such out of your home. Here is our short guide on how to use them to keep your garage secure.

How to Weatherproof your Garage Door

When looking at ways to weatherproof your garage door, garage door seals are the perfect solution. Garage door weather stripping, garage door bottom seals and threshold seals are all perfect ways to prevent bad weather from entering your garage.

Installing a Garage Door Seal to Weatherproof your Garage Door

Our garage multi seals are one of the best ways to seal your garage door against adverse weather. They can be easily installed with the use of double-sided tape for a flush fit. We’ve put together some simple steps to make fitting a garage door seal a breeze using our garage door multi seals.

1. Choose your door seal type. 
2. Measure your garage door carefully for the accurate length of your garage door seal.
3. Cut your garage door seal down to the correct size needed to fit your door.
4. Clean the area you would like to fit your garage door seal to.
5. Apply the double-sided tape to the underside of the garage door ensuring the tape is in line with the outside edge. Once you are happy, trim the ends and remove the release paper from the garage door seal.
6. Fit your garage door seal to the garage door, starting on one side and working your way along. Be sure to keep your garage door seal weatherproofing in line with the underside of the door.
7. Shut your garage door and check it shuts properly with no blockages.
8. Sit back and enjoy a weather-proof garage door that keeps your garage perfectly insulated all winter long.

Using Brush Strips to Weather Proof your Garage Door

If you would prefer to use a garage door brush strip over one of our multi seal garage door weatherproofing options, the good news is that we have a range of products to suit your needs. Our brush strip garage door seals are ideal for preventing draughts and pests from entering your garage. They can also prevent water and leaves from entering your garage during wet weather so are a great tool for insulating your garage and weatherproofing your garage door ready for the winter.

Simply follow the steps above with the addition of pre-drilled holes and lengths of garage door brush strips to measure and ensure you screw your garage door seal in securely. Any bristles that are too long can be trimmed for a clean shut.

Looking for Garage Door Seals to Weatherproof your garage Door?

Our wide range of garage door seals are available now to help you weatherproof your home From brush strips to garage door top seals and bottom seals, we offer a range of options able to be adapted to fit your garage door perfectly.

Take a look at our garage door seal collection here for more or get in touch online or by calling 01952 291903 to talk to our team about what garage door weatherproofing options are available to you.

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