benick wrote:
"Tony" wrote in message
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benick wrote:
"Tony" wrote in message
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HerHusband wrote:

In the future, I'm thinking of installing special sill flashing
like www.jambsill.com, but that's of little help with the current
doors.

Anthony

I could have used one of those before installing my garage entry
door. Only a problem with wind driven rain, but it only takes a very
light wind.

We have wind driven rain A LOT here on the coast of Maine and even
the cheap doors I bought a Homedepot do not leak even though I don't
have them flashed or the siding on yet...I think you need to talk to
a pro and have him look it over...No offense , but you obviously
messed up something on the install as everyone you did leaks......If
it were just one in a specific location it would be one thing but
that is not the case...

Huh??? Every door I installed leaks? Where did you get your
information? I've only installed one steel entry door in my life.
When the wind blows the rain to the area where the weather striping
touches the steel door, it gets wicked in between the two and flows
down and runs both inside and outside. The door opens into the garage
so the water wicked between the door and the weather stripping is
already on the inside part of the jamb.

Now where are all the others I did?



Sorry for the brain fart , I was responding to the OP... Quote from the
OP...

"I have installed several prehung exterior steel entry doors over the last
few years, and virtually all of them have minor leaks somewhere around the
bottom. The first was the entry door to our garage, which has now rotted
and will need replacing this summer. Obviously, I don't want any other
doors to rot like the first one, or worse yet cause structural damage to
the buildings"

End quote....I should have said...To the OP...

OK, I'm over it. **** happens.