How to repair a garage door jamb, rotted wood. Easy! Home Mender

Hello this is Dustin with Home Mender and today we're going to be replacing a garage door jamb. Typically, they get rot at the bottom. Either they're contacting the ground, they are also prone to termite activity. This one's rotted. We need to get taken out. Let's get to it. We're going to start by taking off the garage weather stripping usually made of vinyl. Use your pry bar. Now this one's wrapped in metal. We can repair it a little different but if yours is not wrapped in metal we're going to repair this one as if we were painting it. If we pull back our metal wrap, we can see the rot. This piece is rotted and it also goes way back into here, behind the metal wrap. So we're going to replace the whole side of the jamb. We're going to pull off this 1 by 3 strip and we're not going to be too careful with it because it's got to be replaced. Got a little bit of caulk here and just cut that. Next we're going to pull off our metal wrap. Usually this is damaged in getting it off so you may not be able to reuse it. If you're painting obviously this doesn't apply to you. Now that our metal wrap is off we're going to use a saw to cut this board so it's a little easier for us to get out. Now you may need to pull the face off. This is usually trimmed out in brick mould. This one's trimmed out in 2x4. I think we can do it without pulling it. You find your board and pull. There we are. That was easy. Now if your rewrapping in metal, it doesn't matter how much you cut out of the board. You can cut two or three feet off of it and then put in a new wood because you're wrapping over it but if it's going to be painted, then it needs to be paint grade. We prefer one solid piece. Measure up from the ground. Now that's 83 inches tight from the ground. However, we don't want it touching the ground because that's what rotted it out the first time. So we're going to take about a half inch off of our 83 inch. We're going to cut it at 82 1/2. 82 1/2 . Mark. Square. 82 1/2 Fit to the top. So our garage door jamb is cut and ready to go in. We're going to use finishing nails because this is going to be paint grade. You don't want to use some jumbo ugly head nail. You can use your pry bar and a block of wood to position the board where you need it. Now nail it off. Make sure you use galvanized finishing nails so they don't rust. Now that our garage door jamb is in, we need to replace the piece of 1x3 that we took off. Remember to keep it a half inch from the ground. Our last measurement was 82 1/2. We want it to be the same size. We're going to cut this at 82 1/2. Lift it up to the top and nail it on. Let's measure the position of the board so we can keep it the same all the way down. Mark it down below. Now that we've duplicated our jamb, we're ready to install the vinyl weatherstripping. Now this one you do want to come pretty close to the ground. It's vinyl so it won't rot. I'm gonna cut this one 82 1/4. Nip the rubber flap with some snips. Because this is vinyl we can cut it with our skill saw. Just make sure you set your depth so you don't have more blade than you need cutting. Sweet! With our garage door down, we're ready to install the weather stripping. Make sure your flap contacts the door and run the side flap underneath the top flap. Nail it off. Try to keep this reveal the same way all the way down. So that's it. We got our garage door jamb replaced. We got a 1x3 put back and the vinyl weather stripping put back. That'll keep out a rat or two. All that's left to do is paint it. If that's you go ahead and caulk and paint your color. We're gonna have the trim coil wrap guy come back and install some new metal on this one. So for Home Mender Inc, this is Dustin. I hope you learned something today and if you did, don't forget to click subscribe. Thanks for watching.

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Length: 5min 36sec (336 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 18 2015