I recently replaced a beat up sliding screen door to my patio with a
new one. Same size, and seemingly same dimensions, except that the new
one is "adjustable-height". The problem I have is when I close the
new door is with the bug shield, which is basically a rubber strip
that trails the door and seals out bugs. Well, the bug shield works
when I close the door, but when I go to slide the screen door open,
the trailing edge of the bug shield catches on the glass, and curls
around on itself and eventually stops the door from opening further
from the friction of the rolled up rubber bug shield on the glass door
behind it. I tried cutting the bug shield down, but no dice - after a
certain point it is too short and gets hung up on a metal flange that
separates the glass door from the static glass panel. Now I tried
putting up foam weather stripping, but that hardly works too since in
order to get a good seal, it makes the sliding door very hard to open
or close, and there are still gaps big enough for mosquitos to get
through. Any suggestions? I'm dying here.

"Matt" wrote in message
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I recently replaced a beat up sliding screen door to my patio with a
new one. Same size, and seemingly same dimensions, except that the new
one is "adjustable-height". The problem I have is when I close the
new door is with the bug shield, which is basically a rubber strip
that trails the door and seals out bugs. Well, the bug shield works
when I close the door, but when I go to slide the screen door open,
the trailing edge of the bug shield catches on the glass, and curls
around on itself and eventually stops the door from opening further
from the friction of the rolled up rubber bug shield on the glass door
behind it. I tried cutting the bug shield down, but no dice - after a
certain point it is too short and gets hung up on a metal flange that
separates the glass door from the static glass panel. Now I tried
putting up foam weather stripping, but that hardly works too since in
order to get a good seal, it makes the sliding door very hard to open
or close, and there are still gaps big enough for mosquitos to get
through. Any suggestions? I'm dying here.

Longshot response.

From your description it sounds like the rubber seal is on the inside edge
of the screen.

If it were on the outside it would not hit the door.

Can it be reversed?

The cost of a new strip is better than being eaten alive by skeeters.

Colbyt

On Sep 29, 4:41*pm, "Colbyt" wrote:
"Matt" wrote in message

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I recently replaced a beat up sliding screen door to my patio with a
new one. Same size, and seemingly same dimensions, except that the new
one is "adjustable-height". *The problem I have is when I close the
new door is with the bug shield, which is basically a rubber strip
that trails the door and seals out bugs. *Well, the bug shield works
when I close the door, but when I go to slide the screen door open,
the trailing edge of the bug shield catches on the glass, and curls
around on itself and eventually stops the door from opening further
from the friction of the rolled up rubber bug shield on the glass door
behind it. *I tried cutting the bug shield down, but no dice - after a
certain point it is too short and gets hung up on a metal flange that
separates the glass door from the static glass panel. *Now I tried
putting up foam weather stripping, but that hardly works too since in
order to get a good seal, it makes the sliding door very hard to open
or close, and there are still gaps big enough for mosquitos to get
through. *Any suggestions? I'm dying here.

Longshot response.

From your description it sounds like the rubber seal is on the inside edge
of the screen.

If it were on the outside it would not hit the door.

Can it be reversed?

The cost of a new strip is better than being eaten alive by skeeters.

Colbyt- Hide quoted text -

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What about gluing the bug strip to whatever would make sense