How To Replace The Seal On A Garage Door

Then follow the same procedures to place and secure the outer door seal strip.

How to replace the seal on a garage door.

Remove the strip and follow the directions for applying adhesive in the area inside the pencil lines. Once you re satisfied that the garage door closes correctly use your pencil to outline the seal strip that is located inside the garage door. This video explains how to remove and replace the rubber seal at the bottom of your garage door. Plug your garage door opener back into the outlet.

Raise the garage door to the fully open position. Folding the seal back onto itself will hold the seal in place. Lower the door remove the vise grips from the track and lower the garage door. Put the seal in with the help of screws that are evenly spaced out.

Clean the door bottom photo 2 then cut the new rubber seal to length with a razor knife. How to replace bottom weather seal on your garage door. Step 2 insert a flat head screwdriver into each channel on the bottom seal retainer where the seal connects. Try and make use of the existing screw holes that are there.

If you have a wooden garage door rip off the nailed rubber seal. Place one side of the seal near the end of the garage door and the other end of the seal near the other end of the garage door. Be patient it takes a lot of pushing and pulling even with a helper. Thread the t shaped edges into the weather seal track then slide the seal across the door.

This should go one inch beyond the door ends.