Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler advice on weatherstripping

I got my dad to pick up the exact same type of weatherstripping, and he installed it the exact same way (I wasn't up). The main principal of weatherstripping is that it creates a contiguous seal around the door, and while that fin-flex type gasketing is a good product, if you have to cut a section out for the latch - and it's almost inevitable because it's wide - , the utility is lost because air will just infiltrate the house there.

Not being critical, I'm just saying.

Not a perfect seal. But I think it's good enough. Works for me anyway.

The seal is usually formed on the front face of the door not on the edge, installing a thicker/better seal for the face side would eliminate the need for the edge sealing.

Bryan, I would look at installing a 'tongue'/strike plate for that catch so the wood on the jamb doesn't get beat up any further.

It's hard to say how long that door's been there. The house has settled enough, that I'd like to install a new entry door and casing. There's a lot of unevenness around the door. It's far from square.

Ken it could be worse, this is the draft issue I'm dealing with at the moment...

Duct tape will easily fix that, Rick.

Actually I'm trying to talk my wife into an infinite baffle subwoofer but she seems to think a shower in the bathroom is more important.

Women.

Hijack:
Rick, what are you doing to my favorite room?

We had a mold issue Mark, that's a bathroom shower on the other side of the torn out DVD cabinet and evidently it's been seeping water for the past several months. Service Master came in and ripped out the drywall where there was mold, cleaned it up and now we're waiting on the second mold count to come in before it can all be put back together. We're going to do a compete remodel and update of the bathroom now that it's torn out and I don't think I'm putting the DVD cabinet back in the TV room.

Rick. I would love to have a Florida draft problem right now. It's somewhere between -13C and -17C here right now (I think that works out to f'ing cold in farenheit).