Repairing door bottom seal (2025 Update)

Here are a couple of links that may help you.

Don't you know you should be putting "OT" in the subject when posting an off topic in a political newsgroup?

Without actually seeing your door, I would consider removing and replacing it with a simple bottom seal like this.....

I've had mine for years and still doing well even in the harsh climates of Michigan.

I can understand the need for a retractable door seal on an entrance door but I have no idea why one is needed on a garage door that goes up and down. A simple rubber U shape seal normally suffices on garage doors.

He didn't say the seal was on a garage door, he said "I have a...door to the garage."

I have one garage door and 2 doors "to the garage".

English is an interesting language.

I seriously doubt that the door in question will close if that type of seal is installed.

Ok, let's not get into a tizzy over it. I took off the door and hit it with a hammer. Works now.

You couldn't hit the door with a hammer while it was still installed?

Strange.

I believe it is a man-door to the garage - and likely an attached garage, which you want well sealed from the house it is attached too. I may be wrong on the second and third points, but virtually sure I am right on the obvious - it is a "man door"

I suspect he hit the pin. Possibly with the door on it's side so anything jamming it would fall out of place.

Dammit....i missed that. Thanks for clarifying

Whoosh!

Re-read what he wrote.

What does "it" refer to in that sentence?

COULD simply be the door, but the assumption, given earlier discussion, is he hit the door bottom seal mechanism -, because he uses the same it for what he hit and what now works - - - - -

Reasonable assumption to me.

You don't get jokes do you?

Lighten up.

Oren posted for all of us...

Fire rating has nothing to do with exhaust fumes.

Oren posted for all of us...

Only if you poke at it.

Oren posted for all of us...

The fire rating is only a rating of the ability of the door to resist heat for certain period of time. The sealing is a separate issue, I include this search:

All the more reason to have smoke & CO detectors. I worked with a lady whom almost had snake eyes because her friend went to eternal sleep in the garage. I don't know how she missed the big one by waking up or third party .

It sounds like the issue might be with the old-style automatic door bottom seal that’s become misaligned over time. These seals often wear out or drop too low if the internal spring mechanism fails or the mounting loosens. A good fix could be either adjusting the mounting position slightly or replacing the entire mechanism with a modern drop-down seal. If you’re not comfortable handling that yourself, a local garage door repair expert can usually take care of it quickly.