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Pull the trim and shim the door frame.

where ya at fred, we have dropped to -30 here and it was -5 for the last month as of yesterday. Its a real rude hit.

Fred those temperatures are incomprehensible to *native* folks down here, anything that registers below 70°F on the thermometer works out to be f'ing cold in my neck of the woods.

I was afraid someone was going to say that...

Shimming the door frame only corrects the visual edge around the side of the door it won't necessarily help with the seal, as long as the door frame is relatively straight and true. The seal is on the front face, replace it and then adjust the striker plate to hold the door fully closed against the seal, I would do this before pulling trim down to start shimming.

I've got to put new weatherstripping on the bottom of our 6 exterior doors (don't ask ) been putting it off since August. I'm pretty sure I'll be doing it on the coldest day of the year.

Every time I tried to do the bottom of my door with some rubber products that are supposed to go into the grooves that were already there, the rubber got torn up and came out. That's when I said "to hell with it" and just installed a sweep that makes a tight seal against the threshold instead. Glad I did. There's no air coming through, except at the left and right edges where there's no seal. (Hey, a small hole lets in a lot less cold than a big hole.)

See now no one is here cuz of ken. Were all off putting our weather stripping on . I got mine done, no choice the weather went to -35. bbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Hey, quit sending that cold air down here! That is bbuurrrr.

You guys need to send it back up here . When i was a kid on Hope, we used to get snow every winter.It really raises hell with driving in vancouver. It snowed one night in Van and it took me 3 hours to get to New West. Lucky i had a freind there to stay with.Hopefully this snap wont last to long.

Yes, it is a beast to drive in. It melts during the day then freezes at night and major black ice in the morning. We are suppose to get a major dump on wednesday.

Wouldn't be bad if there wasn't so many hills in the city, and they don't plow or salt the side streets.Fun fun