Garage door draught excluder

[The Medway Handyman]

Looking for a brush strip to go along the bottom of an up & over garage door. Found one a SF but its only 45mm wide & the gap is larger than that.

Any ideas where to get a wider one from?

[A.Clews]

Thus spake The Medway Handyman ( [e-mail]) unto the assembled multitudes:

:-)

Still, if you're being paid to do it, who cares...

[gazz]

cos people like to keep their expensive cars nice and warm at night?

me, my car sits on the drive, ok the motorbikes go in the garage, but the rest of it is my workshop, so having it pretty draught free is a bonus, but with the gap under the door blocked off i'd have nowhere to sweep the sawdust and wood shavings under.

[WhoDunnit]

The gap is 45mm? Could you not screw a bit of wood along its length and then attach a brush strip to the inside.

[Dave Liquorice]

If the gap cant be coverd by a 2" wide brush then keeping leaves, rain and other muck out is most likely.

Think I'd look at fitting something for the bottom of the door or a smaller brush on the bootom of the door to close against. Even a 1" high step will do a lot to stop rain driving in.

[PAJ]

Dave, I think 45 mm wide would be too big a gap for it without some sort of spacer but how about this product -

[Peter Johnson]

Because the garage is integral and you want to reduce heat losses?

[Peter Andrews]

A strip of plastic damp proof course membrane (Wickes £6.19 for 30m) fixed to the bottom of the door with a strip of aluminium has been keeping the leaves and litter out of my garage for 18 years and it's cheap and easy to replace (only once!)

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[Rod]

Any use?

Doesn't look to have enough gap capacity - but maybe in conjunction with something else... ?

[nightjar]

I would be inclined to make the gap smaller to start with.

Colin Bignell

[The Medway Handyman]

Thanks