Sealing an old wooden front door

pukka foam rubber (not foam plastic) is pretty good.

cf-leeds presented the following explanation :

I live in a high windy part of the country, so we used to have problems.

Until I replaced my outer doors some years ago, I had success with a thin plastic lip seal, which you pinned with stainless pins to the outer edge of the frame. It was visible from the outside, on the frame, with the door closed. It didn't come as a roll, as many do, it came in rigid door lengths, supplied with the pins. I cannot find a link to it.

Prior to that, I fitted a copper strip seal, which again fitted with stainless tacks, but onto the frame at the door edge, so hidden with door closed. You tacked one edge of the copper, the untacked hedge was free to bend out to form the seal. That was also very effective, but soon wore out with the abrasion of a the door being frequently used.

Atomic strip. My parents used it in the 1950's; I used it on my first and second houses, 20 years in each. Never had any problems, with the one caveat that when the wind blew strongly from a particular direction, the strip behaved as a reed in a wind instrument and wailed in ghostlike fashion. Drove the cats mad!

It's still on the dors in this house, having been fitted by the previous owners 40+ years ago.

Chris Hogg pretended :

That's it. Yes I had forgotten the unearthly wailing noises :-)

Our door is physically warped and has obvious signes of being broken into, ie Gemmy marks, but it is otherwise quite nice. We have had a porch fitted with upvc door, but I'd also like to restore the inner one and have it fit properly, but I looked at this some years ago and could not find anything remotely suitable other than to remove door and frame and fit a new one. sigh. Brian

We had those in our house in South Wales back in the 50's and 60's.

Extreme windy weather made the copper strips 'sing' as they vibrated.