Our garage walls appear to be cinder block with a layer of … mortar? It’s hard and rough.
It’s a tight fit getting in and out of the car. The door is apt to hit something, but I don’t want to attach guards to it. I don’t care what the wall looks like, so what can be attached to the wall to act as a cushion? Is wicking an issue?
I have some 1/8″ masonite on hand. Can that be used, and what should I use to seal it (if necessary)?
Janet
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Janet
You could mark out the area (often just a few inches in width) that the door would make contact and then put a strip of some sort of cushion there. Could glue onto the wall surface-using tape to hold in place until the adhesive sets.
I'd use something softer than masonite.
In our garage I have a 30" high shop bench top that could contact my wifes car door if opened fully. I slid a pc of foam pipe insulation slit and slid onto the benchtop edge.
Kind of like the old 'chair rail' molding ... door rail molding. :)
I'm sure you're going to get a lot of varying suggestions. Pick what ever is easiest for you.
I tacked up a scrap of 1/2" ply, then stapled some old carpet scraps on top of that -- a little over 30 yrs ago. Still there. Still works. Of course, you can also buy rubber bumpers made for that purpose that probably go up with double sided tape.
If this is on the buried side of the garage you were talking about in the other thread, and you're worried about moisture, you could put a piece of the peel-and-stick membrane (e.g., Vycor) between whatever you put up & the wall.
Ed
Fortunately, this particular wall is not the one acting as as retaining wall.
I only suggested masonite because there's some left over from another project. Cheap is good.
Janet
Depends on how damp the block tends to get. If dry then most anything will work, if it's often damp then masonite should be "tempered" (the stuff has a fairly dark color) and any sort of wood product you use should be rot-resistant. (Though you can reduce the worry about moisture if you use some sort of moisture barrier -- even just tar paper -- behind the wood or masonite.)
The ideal thing that comes to mind first for me is a piece or two of plastic decking. No, strike that -- I'd get some exterior-grade floor mat material and hang that up.