#112 Water Tight Garage Door Seals | At The Ranch

[Music] hey guys alec pierce at the ranch with another idea might be useful for you you've all seen my garage in some of my previous videos you got a beautiful garage and very recently we did a video on my new garage floor i'm so pleased with it the ground down the old cement and they put a new epoxy coating on with anti-slip just a beautiful floor i love this floor however i still have another problem that existed before now it's even worse because of course they ground the floor down a little bit so you see that there's a crack down there when i bring the roller door down to the very bottom it leaves a good size crack that door faces east so when we have an east wind not too often and when we have an eastern rain not too often it blows right in plus in the winter time of course snow is going to pile up and melt and i don't want that stuff coming into the garage so i need to put a garage door seal on whoop they do that's not a big problem the garage door came with a seal and you can you can buy a replacement seal for it but i want a good seal it was never perfect before often the door would come down it would seal and then water would get into the rubber seal and the water would freeze it would freeze to the ground they opened the door and it rips it off it just wasn't very good now you may or may not know how that works but on the bottom of the garage door there's something like this can you take a close-up with this kevin time for a drink you see this is just aluminum plate that screws to the bottom of the door if you look close at the end of the plate can i hold that still there kevin you see there's two slots one on each side where my fingers are there's two t-shaped slots okay so this this fastens to the bottom of the door all the way across 16 feet and then into those two slots you slide this this is just a flat rubber sleeve you see like that and this flat rubber sleeve has a rubber tee on each side and slides in like that maybe that's the best picture right there kevin you see that so they just slide into those two slots and then it technically got it technically and what happens is this comes down this is on the bottom of the of the door and this comes down to the floor and compresses against the floor and it has worked reasonably well in the past but far from perfect as i said water leaked in the water froze it froze to the floor pull on but just it's just far from perfect the other thing as you'll notice down here kevin again at the corners seal is not is not perfect but it's not too bad in the middle glasses is about three quarters of an inch so it's not an even gap along there either so i was concerned about just replacing the old seal that i pulled off with the same seal i knew it wouldn't last i knew it wouldn't do a good job so i won't i researched spent a lot of time and i found this aha there's a seal first of all it's much much wider it's four inches wide instead of two and a half three and secondly if you look closely you'll see that this rubber seal has attached right in the middle a rubber tube it's almost like garden hose i actually toyed with the idea of getting a regular flat rubber seal putting a piece of rubber garden hose in it but this was pretty cheap so i bought this now what happens you fold this up like this you see and you slide these into that same track and you got your rubber sealed your u-shaped rubber seal but inside that is that soft rubber tubing it looks like this here we go again kevin zoom in here so when it's installed and the track it looks like this i'll hold still now see that can you see in there kev you can see the rubber tube inside so now when the door comes down it pushes and halfway down it hits the rubber tube and then it has to compress the rubber tube like that point is that this exerts more pressure on the floor if the gap is small there and large there this will help to push the rubber seal down tight to the floor and stop the water from coming in now while i was researching i bumped into another another neat idea okay so this is door seal goes on the bottom of the door the door comes down and this seal pushes against the floor aha look at this you can buy this stuff quite common it is a garage door seal i guess i don't know i'm not sure what the name is but look at this this is also a strip of rubber and you get them any length my door is 16 feet you buy them in 20s and make them fit can you can you see what this is kevin it's a flat piece of rubber ribs on the bottom okay and then i'm going to get the profile you see what the profile is on the side there's a wide slope here a bit of a bump and a narrow slope over here okay so simple you cut this to exactly the right length you drop put the new seal on the door drop the door down and mark the edge of the new seal on the floor roll the door back up and then you lay this along that mark with epoxy or not epoxy a silicone silicone sealant but lots of silica and yeah this goes down then you bring the door back down on it and leave it for two days this becomes permanent to the garage floor so now that new rubber seal that i found will come down it'll actually come down right on here let me see if i can show you this will actually come down onto that slopey slopey is that a word kevin okay so this is on the garage floor this is on the door the door now comes down onto that wide section just on the outside of that little ridge right there you see that so now we've got rubber pushing on rubber plus there's a ridge behind my floor is going to be dry all winter long no problem whatsoever the rubber seal with the tube inside and the floor seal yeah it's going to be great anyway if you guys are having the same problem water coming in under your garage door your roll-up garage door take a look might be an idea in there for you easy to install secure the track on slide the stuff in very easy okay there you go just got some great ideas that i'm working with i thought i'd share them with you hope there's something there for you alec pierce at the ranch talk to you soon [Music] you

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Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 26 2021