I suggest a simple cheap fix that has worked for me in Michigan.
Go to the hardware store and buy a few grey foam pipe insulating four foot
sticks. Apply them to both ends of the door and trim to fit by trial and
error. When you can no longer see daylight under the door when it is closed,
you have finished the project. This stuff hangs onto the bottom of the door
without any nailing or gluing. From the outside, you can see it, but who is
going to walk around looking at the bottom of your garage door?
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Mike wrote:
On Dec 8, 12:24 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Mike wrote:
Hi all. My garage door is old (maybe 30 years) and probably needs to
be replaced - but not right now. In the short term, I'm seeking a
little advice from the good folks here. When the door is closed, the
middle of the door makes good contact with the floor, but I can see
daylight on both ends. I bought another rubber strip for the bottom
of the door, cut it into pieces and nailed a few pieces to both
ends, but that didn't really have the desired effect - I can still
see daylight under the ends when the door is closed. Here is what
I'm pondering - what if I remove the rubber strip(s) currently on
the door, get some paint stirrers and staple them to the bottom of
the door (3 stacked on the very end, then 2 next to the 3, then 1)
to fill in the space. Then re-attach the rubber strip. The idea
being to
fill the gaps with the paint stirrers. A friend suggested maybe just
nailing the paint stirrers to the inside (back) of the door at the
bottom rather than attaching them to the bottom to block the
opening, so that is also a possibility.

Any of you folks had to deal with such a situation? How did you fix
it (short of replacing the door)?

Why do you care?

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It's not the light I'm trying to keep out, it's the small animals that
can get under there.


Ah! Okay, then.

Think cat.