Sat 31 May 2008
Front Door Drip Guard Installed
The duct tape holding the weather strip up under the front door finally gave out – for the fifth time – so I decided to get the job done already. It took me most of the day, but I figured out a way to make it work. Ironically, I don’t think my solution will have a weather strip under the door, but it should be OK because there is no room between the threshold and the bottom of the drip guard anyway.
Total savings on this project: ~$850.
Total cost of the project: 5 Saturdays + materials ($65)
UPDATE (2 June) – Tonight we had some severe thunderstorms with about twenty minutes of driving, heavy rain against the front door. A little stream of water ran through the gap between the bottom corner of the door and the door jamb. D’oh. I may just ignore the problem for now, as most everything at that location is made of vinyl and shouldn’t be damaged by water. But most likely I will resort to cutting off 0.5″ of the bottom of the door so I can fit the proper weather stripping under it. That’s another day-long project. Maybe I’ll wait until next winter when it’s cool again.
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July 8th, 2008 at 3:28 pm[...] This is leak #3, and we still haven’t finished leak projects #1, and #2. [...]
June 17th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Two years to the day I had to do MORE remedial work on this door assembly. This time the bottom section of wood on the other side of the side window rotted out.
Rather than replace the rotten wood with good wood, I simply filled the huge gap with Rock Hard putty! Cheap, quick solution that should hold steady for a few years.
A new door is inevitable at some point, though.