Repair Your Weather Strip: A One-Minute Tutorial
Quick Summary
This video teaches you how to replace a damaged weather strip on the door leading into your garage. You will learn that the weather strip is critical because it must create an airtight seal on all four sides of the door. Knowing this repair is important for two reasons: first, the airtight seal is necessary because this is a fire door, which prevents a garage fire from spreading into the house. Second, the seal keeps the warm air inside the house and the cold air in the garage, ensuring proper thermal efficiency. The video demonstrates how to pull out the old strip and press a new finned piece into the slot.
What you'll need and what to do
To try what's taught in the video, here's what you'll need and the exact steps to follow.
What You Will Need
New weather strip material (a piece with a fin that fits the slot)
Cutting tool (to cut the new strip to length)
Action Steps
Observe the damaged weather strip on the door leading into the garage (for instance, one that has been torn by a dog).
Pull the old, damaged weather strip out of the slot in the door jamb.
Cut the new weather strip piece to the required length.
Press the fin of the new weather strip into the slot in the door jamb.
Confirm that the damaged strip is replaced and there are no more air leaks.
Word for word video transcript
Hey everyone Brandon nelson and in one minute I'm going to show you how to replace a damaged weather strip on the door into your garage when this door closes it needs to make an airtight seal on all four sides that's important for two reasons number one this is a fire door so it needs to be airtight to keep a fire from spreading from the garage into the house number two that airtight seal keeps the warm air inside the house and the cold air in the garage you see what's happened here a dog scratching to get in has torn the weather strip and it's not airtight anymore now you could just do a quick and dirty repair with a piece of duct tape but we can do a lot better than that now this weather strip just pops in and out of a slot so we can just pull this old damaged one out on our new piece this fin fits right into this slot in the door jamb so all we need to do is cut it to length and then press it into place and bam no more damage no more air leaks this has been Brandon nelson for one minute i'll see you next time
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