My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

On Jan 11, 12:47 pm, Terry Pinnell
wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

Brush strip style draught excluders as sold for front doors & the like.
I did this myself recently (exactly the same problem), fixing them to a
metal garage door using small self tappers in pilot holes.

MBQ

"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
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My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

I have seen rubber tubing added to the bottom of the door, my neighbour has
some sort of tough felt in a sort of tube shape on his, brushstrip would be
fine too.

mrcheerful
. wrote:
"Terry Pinnell" wrote in message
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My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

I have seen rubber tubing added to the bottom of the door, my neighbour has
some sort of tough felt in a sort of tube shape on his, brushstrip would be
fine too.
Foam pipe insulation used for water pipes slips on to the the bottom of
the door easily.

Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?


I added a bristle strip (metal strip with about an inch of bristles
coming out along its length) to the bottom of ours after rodent ingress
a little while back.

Since then, no more rodents.

Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?


I bought some foam rubber strip from one of the sheds, specifically
designed for garage doors. Made by 3M IIRC, it had this sort of profile
(Fixed font reqd.):

/
\______/

Fixed it with pop rivets & large washers.

Alan

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:20:14 +0000, Gary wrote:

I added a bristle strip (metal strip with about an inch of bristles
coming out along its length) to the bottom of ours after rodent ingress
a little while back.

Since then, no more rodents.

You must have very thick rodents, ours just nibble their way through.
They haven't done this in the garage though which also has a length of
brush strip fixed along the bottom edge and 4" wide bits of carpet tile
type carpet up the sides as far as possible to keep the driving rain and
snow out.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

Alan Vann wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?


I bought some foam rubber strip from one of the sheds, specifically
designed for garage doors. Made by 3M IIRC, it had this sort of profile
(Fixed font reqd.):

/
\______/

Fixed it with pop rivets & large washers.

Alan

Many thanks for all the replies, very helpful.

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

I used Damp proof course membrane. fold in half an dthen pop rivet the
open end to the door in with a backing strip. sort of like:
|
| | - door
|\ /| |
| \---- / | | Pop rivet
\ / |__|
\/

assuming your door has a sort of gutter inside at the bottom. I did
this 6 years ago to my door, and it does not yet need replacing. DPC is
cheap an dyou get a lot of it

Dave

"dave sanderson" wrote in message
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Screwfix do a Garage Draught And Rain Seal which I have used - does what it
says on the tin (it's a rubber strip attatched to a aluminium carrier that
you screw onto the door) - but it seems a tad expensive at £15 a shot. I
sealed the top of my garage door with one, deciding that there was a bigger
draught at the top than the bottom.

Andy

Huge wrote:
On 2007-01-11, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:20:14 +0000, Gary wrote:

I added a bristle strip (metal strip with about an inch of bristles
coming out along its length) to the bottom of ours after rodent ingress
a little while back.

Since then, no more rodents.
You must have very thick rodents, ours just nibble their way through.
They haven't done this in the garage though which also has a length of
brush strip fixed along the bottom edge and 4" wide bits of carpet tile
type carpet up the sides as far as possible to keep the driving rain and
snow out.

I screwed some 1" x 3/4" (or so) batten to the floor in the garage, which
the doors butt against when shut. We haven't had a single mouse in the
garage since! The only down-side is that you can't sweep the garage
out into the drive now, but it's a small price to pay.


I have a folding automatic garage door with a tough rubber tube along
the bottom. Mice have eaten a doorway through that!

Terry Pinnell wrote:
My up-and-over garage door has over an inch gap at the bottom. So I'm
constantly sweeping out dead leaves. Can anyone recommend an easily
applied (and easily obtained) strip of material I can secure to it
please?

How about something like StormShield garage door threshold? It fits to
the floor and the door shuts against it forming a seal and preventing
water from running into the garage. Ok I know it's only 1/2 inch high.
Maybe raise the floor of your garage or lower the door a bit?

http://www.jnkproducts.com/storm-shi...-threshold.htm

I think the following site delivers internationally.

http://woodworker.com/cgi-bin/FULLPR...2995&go=807952