Slowgsr
Well-known member
Ill try and keep this short. My problem is this, I have a zero gap at one edge of my garage door and a 2" gap at the other end of my garage door. The floor is level, and the door is not.
Its a 30x30 pole barn, with 2 10' wide by 12' high doors in the front. I framed out the interior walls with 2x4's for electrical, insulation etc. While doing this I notice the shop leans to the left about 3" or so, so I naturally built my 2x4 walls level, so I had to sacrifice a few inches of space. Not a big deal, I pinned them to the floor, and to the bottom of the truss. The interior walls are 14'4" high.
My shop floor is 6 sections separated by sawcuts, one down the middle from front to back, then 2 side to side. The section by the left rollup door had some very bad cracking, so I decided to replace just this section of the floor since the rest was very acceptable.
While putting a form across the opening of the door, the whole time I thought my previously cracked and damaged floor had sunk causing the door gap, this was not the case! The door, as well as the opening has also "shifted" to the right, however the doors are not original, they are nice newer insulated doors, they work perfectly as well. But the door are not level, just 'true' to the openings. As I said, the naked eye cant notice this.
I thought, OK lets just pour the floor so it slops to the middle from the wall slightly, but since I saw cut along the wall, the new floor needs to meet the existing 3 sides of the floor, which would make the floor level.
So, I could get another panel for the door, slightly longer, and cut it on an angle to follow the floor, or I was thinking if I could get a weatherstripping for the bottom that rather then screwing to the bottom of the door has the rubber attached to a U shaped piece of aluminum. So I could set it on the floor, roll the door all the way down into it and screw it to the door, so the door makes a seal. Anyone know what Im talking about?
I don't think my local home depot will have something like this, so if I call around Id like to know the 'trade name' for the style of weatherstripping im after, might have a better chance getting it.
Thanks
Its a 30x30 pole barn, with 2 10' wide by 12' high doors in the front. I framed out the interior walls with 2x4's for electrical, insulation etc. While doing this I notice the shop leans to the left about 3" or so, so I naturally built my 2x4 walls level, so I had to sacrifice a few inches of space. Not a big deal, I pinned them to the floor, and to the bottom of the truss. The interior walls are 14'4" high.
My shop floor is 6 sections separated by sawcuts, one down the middle from front to back, then 2 side to side. The section by the left rollup door had some very bad cracking, so I decided to replace just this section of the floor since the rest was very acceptable.
While putting a form across the opening of the door, the whole time I thought my previously cracked and damaged floor had sunk causing the door gap, this was not the case! The door, as well as the opening has also "shifted" to the right, however the doors are not original, they are nice newer insulated doors, they work perfectly as well. But the door are not level, just 'true' to the openings. As I said, the naked eye cant notice this.
I thought, OK lets just pour the floor so it slops to the middle from the wall slightly, but since I saw cut along the wall, the new floor needs to meet the existing 3 sides of the floor, which would make the floor level.
So, I could get another panel for the door, slightly longer, and cut it on an angle to follow the floor, or I was thinking if I could get a weatherstripping for the bottom that rather then screwing to the bottom of the door has the rubber attached to a U shaped piece of aluminum. So I could set it on the floor, roll the door all the way down into it and screw it to the door, so the door makes a seal. Anyone know what Im talking about?
I don't think my local home depot will have something like this, so if I call around Id like to know the 'trade name' for the style of weatherstripping im after, might have a better chance getting it.
Thanks