Is The Rubber Seal At The Bottom Of The Garage Door Important?

"A garage door seal does get dry over time, and you want it to stay rubbery and flexible."  

- Adam Greer, Garage Door Expert

 

So, is that rubber seal at the bottom of you garage door important?  If it is falling apart should you just rip it off and throw it out?  On the Check A Pro Radio Show today a listener wrote in with the following question - "Is The Rubber Seal At The Bottom Of The Garage Door Important?"

Well, that's a great question.  Here to answer that question is a garage door expert, Adam Greer from EZ Lift Garage Doors & More.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Time to talk about garage doors.
A lot of us really don't understand our garage door system.
We press the button in our car or inside the garage to open and close it.
It's often used as the front door of our home.
I've asked a garage door expert,
Adam Greer from easy lift,
garage doors and more to join me here on the program today to talk about your garage door.

(00:22):
Adam,
how are you?
I'm doing fantastic living the living the dream,
as you like to say,
thanks for having me.
Yes,
sir.
It's great to have you.
By the way,
Adam is my garage door guy.
He's my garage door expert.
Um,
not just here on the program,
but he actually,
uh you know,
comes out to my place to repair,
maintain and replace doors,

(00:43):
which actually had to happen at one point because my doors got old and we just couldn't patch them together anymore.
But Adam did a great job originally keeping them going as long as he could.
And I said,
let's just put it to death and start over and we've got these great new garage doors.
The reason why I wanna have you on the program today is to talk about something that people may not even know they have.
And that's that rubber seal at the bottom of the garage door.

(01:07):
Is that an important component of the garage door system?
Yes.
Yes.
It's,
uh,
it's a question you get asked all the time as well.
Um,
so it does two things.
One,
uh,
your main purpose is to keep the wet,
the water,
you know,
keep a barrier between the water and the door to help the water not come into your garage if you don't have a rain tray,
for example.

(01:27):
Um The quest to get asked though most often is,
does it stop critters from getting in my garage if that's your concern about the weather's sealed,
that's not gonna fix it because you have 45 degree angles on your jams.
There is answers to that solution and we do that.
Um,
putting foam in there and stuff like that to help with that.
Uh,
but a garage door seal does get dry over time and you want it to stay rubbery and,

(01:52):
and you know,
flexible.
Uh So it should be replaced on a pretty,
uh,
maybe four or five years you start looking at.
Is it getting hardened?
Our critters chewing through it,
things like that.
Um,
I know that,
uh,
home inspectors will it as a safety issue if it's,
it's missing chunks?
Uh I can't really answer to why that gets flagged as a safety issue because again,

(02:14):
critters are getting into the other parts of the door.
So it's,
it's not keeping snakes out of your garage.
Uh,
but that is a concern people have,
you know,
the snakes are coming in,
come put a seal on.
It's not gonna solve that.
Uh,
by itself.
We need other things.
I like having a new seal on my garage door because it looks good.

(02:37):
Understand everybody,
understand everybody.
When you open the garage door,
you can see the side of it and then ultimately the bottom of it when it's all the way up.
And I,
you know,
I like things to be done right for the cost,
the little cost to have a properly maintained garage door seal,
which means basically throw out the old,

(02:58):
you really can't fix them.
You've just got to get rid of them and put a new one on.
Um,
but,
you know,
when I see tears and holes in them,
I,
I'm like this homeowner doesn't care.
And so if you're selling your home call,
Adam have his team come out and look at the garage door system,
of course,
get that also because you don't want the garage door or the inspector to find something wrong with the garage door at all.

(03:19):
Ok.
So,
and there's no excuse for that,
especially the seal to have that show up on an inspection report because you're gonna have to get it fixed because the buyer is gonna say,
you know,
especially today,
the buyer is gonna say,
yeah,
before you move forward,
you need to replace that.
Why not get it done ahead of time?
It's not that expensive.
Correct.
Yeah,
it's one of those things like you said,

(03:40):
it,
it's,
it's visual almost.
It looks terrible,
all nasty and crushed and ripped and the,
the rail is rusty and crusty.
Um get a nice fresh shiny rail with spongy rubber and it just,
it's amazing what that does to improve the look of your garage store.
Yeah,
a quick inexpensive makeover Adam,

(04:00):
thank you so much for joining me today on the program.
My pleasure.
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