Front door weahtherstipping prevents door from shutting

[micky]

Front door weahtherstipping on bottom of door prevents door from shutting, and eventually I need to shut the door!

II) The door is working pretty well now, only took about an hour to get it to swing on all 3 hinges (but only 3 of the 8 screws replaced. Still need advice in previous thread about the next 5 and the previous

3.) but the door itself, which was shut all the way when I got home yesterday, now won't shut all the way. Because the metal weatherstripping in the bottom of the door is malformed. It won't slide into the slot in the threshhold. I've had this problem before to a lesser degree, when something on the floor got caught between the door and the threshhold and I forced the door, bending the strip. I was able to srtrighten it out without removing anything, just with a screwdriver to separate the two "layers", but this time it's not going so easily.

This weather strip has a full width flange that slides into a slot in the threshhold. I thought I could buy a new pair and only use the door part, but after looking at 125 threasholds on the Home Depot page, nothing is this fancy. Tbey have 7000 more I could look at but I h ave a feeling they still wont' have what I want. They are either simple metal, or they have a rubber strip that bubbles up and seals against the door, which you then end up stepping on and damaging when you walk in and out of the house.

None of the threshholds used an inserted part in the door, none of them involved interlocking anything. Is that no longer used/made?? It seems like a good idea, except for the current problem!

Is there a better store to look for th is stuff, like plumbing supply houses are better than HD for plumbing supplies?

MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION I thought I could pull the part in the door out from the end, but a) is it nailed in or anything, nails I can't reach when the door is on its hinges?

BTW, Homedepot's webpage is no google. When you search for high to low price front door threshholds, they give you mailboxes. When you add

-mailbox to the searchterms, they give you ONLY mailboxes.

[hubops]

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John T.

[hubops]

Try completely clearing your browser cache - before doing _any_ searching .. otherwise your browsing history will be the main criteria for searches .. John T. \

[Cindy Hamilton]

I searched for "exterior door threshold" and then sorted by price, high to low. It worked perfectly.

[micky]

You're right, and exterior is a much better word than front. Maybe I'm still jetlagged.

But still Homedepot should learn from Google and use -mailbox to exclude mailboxes, not to include them, given them priority.

[Cindy Hamilton]

My simple search didn't turn up a single mailbox. You shot yourself in the foot.

[Marilyn Manson]

Here's something interesting:

I tried both Chrome and Edge and this is what happens:

When I search homedepot.com for Micky's misspelt search term - front door threshholds it does do something very similar to Google by fixing the spelling and also offering the option to stick with the misspelling.

Front Door Threshold Search Instead for "front door threshholds"

Leaving it as Front Door Threshold, the 120 results are sorted as "Best Match" and include thresholds for most part, with a few doors, door mats and door flashing kits tossed in. Not many, mostly thresholds, filling up 5 pages. No mailboxes.

However, here's the weird part: If I click the sort drop-down and chose *any* of the

5 options, I get a list of store departments. I've never seen this before.

Some department choices return thresholds, e.g. "Flooring", while others return "Sorry, there are no products available online or in your local store. Please use our Store Finder to select another local store." e.g "Building Materials".

With any other product that I tried (tools, pipes, rugs, etc.) the sort drop-down works as expected, sorting the products low-to-high or high-to-low, etc..

[micky]

In this simple case, your search didn't include "front" and you didn't find mailboxes, but there are other searches which bring up various things one does not want, and Homedepot should learn from Google and use

-whateverword to exclude whateverwords, not to include them and even give them priority. The code to do that is easier than the code to filnd things that *are* searched for..

[Cindy Hamilton]

I didn't feel it needed it. A threshold is a threshold.

I'm sure if Home Depot thought it was worth doing to make an exclusion term available in their search, they would.

Why not a full regular expression search? The code for that is widely available.

[Jim Joyce]

If you prefer the Google search syntax and/or the Google search interface, there's no reason not to use it to search homedepot.com or any other site. You don't need to use HD's search facility.

In your Google search box, enter (without quotes)

"front door threshold -mailbox site:homedepot.com"

The search results will be links to items at homedepot.com.

Or simplify the search, as follows: (no quotes)

"threshold site:homedepot.com"

Nearly any site can be searched that way.