weatherstripping sliding barn doors
c0lin
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I’m looking for any ideas about weatherstripping wooden barn style barn doors. the doors are insulated and I’m not having much luck in my search for a source for weatherstripping. I’m in the toronto area so cold winds are a factor , any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
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cOlin,
if you use the Advanced Search here you might get lucky and find the previous discussions about this.
Realize that sliding barn doors have all four edges moving, and the cumbersome hdwr up top. There's no perfect solution.
A ''U''shaped astrigal that swallows the other door when closed helps. Pulling the doors to the jamb, securing them when closed helps. You can fit a weather strip there that seals when you latch them. The top and bottom...................?
A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
http://www.quittintime.com/
This is a good weatherstripping company here in NY (the Bronx). I've used them in the past for difficult weatherstripping solutions.
http://www.zerointernational.com/whatsnew/news24.asp
That's tough. Are they overlapping? is there a bottom track? The only practical way I can think of is to buy or fabricate top and bottom tracks which held a single door "off" the building until the closed position, where the track would pull the door in to slam - like the sliding door on a VW van.
How about just getting a very heavy, insulated curtain to close across the inside of the opening?