My home is only 3 years old. I have the typical 2 car wide size aluminum roll up garage door. When I get heavy rain I get water intrusion from the bottom right hand size. The builder did a poor job installing the original seal and it was short several inches on one side so today I installed a new one of those U shaped neoprene seals made by ProSeal.
Looking along the bottom of the door when closed now there is a gap of about 1/4" for a length of about 5 feet. I made sure that the seal is completely installed in the T shaped tracks on the aluminum bottom piece on the door.
I suspect either one section of the concrete driveway has settled or maybe the house has settled and the bottom of the door is no longer parallel with the contact surface of the garage floor or driveway. I can see that the new seal is being compressed when the door is closed.
- Do I try the adjustments on the garage door opener to make sure it closes down as far as possible ?
- Do I try and shim one side of the bottom of the garage door ?
- Or do I try and build up the concrete for a section maybe 6" wide and 5 feet long and a quarter inch high where the door makes contact on that side to ensure the bottom seal compresses good and tight ?
Stuffing an old beach towel in the gap wasn't that good of a solution and I thought a new bottom seal would do the trick but it doesn't look so great.
Looking along the bottom of the door when closed now there is a gap of about 1/4" for a length of about 5 feet. I made sure that the seal is completely installed in the T shaped tracks on the aluminum bottom piece on the door.
I suspect either one section of the concrete driveway has settled or maybe the house has settled and the bottom of the door is no longer parallel with the contact surface of the garage floor or driveway. I can see that the new seal is being compressed when the door is closed.
- Do I try the adjustments on the garage door opener to make sure it closes down as far as possible ?
- Do I try and shim one side of the bottom of the garage door ?
- Or do I try and build up the concrete for a section maybe 6" wide and 5 feet long and a quarter inch high where the door makes contact on that side to ensure the bottom seal compresses good and tight ?
Stuffing an old beach towel in the gap wasn't that good of a solution and I thought a new bottom seal would do the trick but it doesn't look so great.