Gaps In Garage Door Structure

Rainwater and melting snow can leak into your garage and soak your belongings.

Gaps in garage door structure.

The stops on your garage door are rubber seal that runs along the edges of your garage door. Gaps along the sides and top of the door let in wind rain and snow and gaps along the floor let in not just weather but also critters. Gaps at the bottom of the two corners of the garage door is often overlooked. Part of the garage door is rotten at the bottom.

In more extreme cases the concrete floor or driveway apron under the door can shift crack or settle creating large gaps under the door that standard seals can t cover. It s wooden and the house is settled on the corners of the driveway. Mice can squeeze through a garage door gap the size of a dime. Garage doors are very large and while all come with a bottom seal to keep out water wind dirt and unwanted intruders the seals themselves can break down over time.

The gap around a door frame is a structural necessity it allows you to fine tune the jamb level and acts as a buffer between the jamb and wall framing. When the concrete garage floor is first poured the concrete at the bottom of the garage door is normally level. The building doesn t really move and that slab doesn t really move much in the garage itself. Dirt and leaves can be blown in by the wind and create more work for you when cleaning up your garage.

You fine tune the level by inserting. It often ranges from a half inch to an inch or two. Rats need no more than the size of a quarter. And now i m starting to get gaps and not only that.

Often there will be a gap at each side or at only one side and the center of the garage door will be down against the concrete. The size of the gap varies from home to home. And i think the garage door is the same age. I ve got a house that s 40 years old tom.

But the driveways will tend to shrink and pull away and you ll get a gap that will open up. A garage door gap of almost any size is an invitation to unwanted guests. I m calling about my garage door. When the home was first built the gap was not there but over time it appears.

Seldom do we step back and look at this area but if we did we may notice that there is a gap. What happens is the driveway believe it or not starts to sort of shift away from the building creating a gap in asphalt. When there s a gap between your garage door and the floor unwanted elements from outside have an invitation to come in and wreak havoc.