How.to Install Nail In Weather Strips Around A Door

Doors provide a much-needed entrance and exit to your home, but they too play a office in energy efficiency. If your door isn't properly weatherstripped, it tin let in the hot or cold air from exterior and fail to form a seal between your home and the outdoors. Luckily, weatherstripping is an easy project and here, our door repair experts tell you how to exercise information technology:

What y'all'll need to weatherstrip a door:

Door weatherstripping kit
Measuring tape
Scissors
Hack saw
Nails
Hammer
Wood-borer cake

Installing Weatherstripping

If your door is older, it may not accept any weatherstripping and you lot'll take to install it yourself.
Outset by deciding what kind of weatherstripping yous want for your door (our door repair experts recommend wrapped foam).
Next, buy the correct size kit for the size of your door.
After that, close the door and measure the summit of the frame from side to side.
On one of the smaller pieces of weatherstripping, offset at ane end and repeat the measurement y'all just took. Make a mark at the end.
Utilize a precipitous pair of pair of scissors to cut the foam office of the weatherstripping at the mark and a hack saw to cut the flange part.
Echo steps repeat steps iv-6 with the other three sides of your door and your weatherstripping.
Position your weatherstrips against your door so that they compress slightly. (They should fit snugly against the door just non so much that the door doesn't shut properly.)
Employ your hammer to boom in two nails near two inches in from each side of the weatherstripping. Then, install another nail every 12 inches or then.
Open and close the door several times to make sure it does so properly.

Replacing Weatherstripping

First, use the back end of a hammer to remove the nails in the sometime weatherstripping around your door.
Next, use a large nail to make clean out the grooves and make the expanse set up for your new weatherstripping.
After that, close the door and measure the pinnacle of the frame from side to side.
On one of the smaller pieces of weatherstripping, start at one end and repeat the measurement you lot just took. Make a mark at the finish.
Utilize a sharp pair of scissors to cut the foam part of the weatherstripping at the marker and a hack saw to cut the flange part.
Repeat steps repeat steps 4-half dozen with the other three sides of your door and your weatherstripping.
Starting at one end of the threshold, use your hammer and woods-borer block (if necessary) to drive the flanges down into the grooves.
Open and close the door several times to brand certain it operates properly.

*Photograph courtesy of granvillelumber.com