How To Stop Door Drafts Around Entry Doors

Learn how to remove old, damaged weather stripping around a steel entry door and replace it with new magnetic weather stripping and a new door sweep.



With heating costs going through the roof, here's an easy way to keep heat from slipping out your doors too.  Take 30 minutes and replace the weather stripping and door sweeps around your steel entry doors.  Plan to do this project on a warm day since you'll have to remove the doors.  Steel doors use a compression style strip for the hinge side and a magnetic one for the knob side and top.  But look at the door and confirm the style of weather stripping on all three sides and the type of door sweep before you head to the store.  You'll find a replace,net weather stripping in a variety of lengths and colors at home centers and hardware stores.



To remove the door, close it and use a hammer and a pin punch or a thin nail to tap out the door hinge pins.  Turn the knob, open the door slightly and lift it off the hinges.  When you rip out the old weather stripping, you might find that it's tacked into place with small brads from the manufacturer.  Leave them in place after removing the old weather stripping an you'll damage the door jamb.  The shear off the shanks inside the groove with an old chisel or drive them deeper into the groove with a screwdriver.  Press the new magnetic weather stripping firmly into the groove on the knob side and top of the door frame and do the same with the compression strip along the hinge side.



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