![]() There is almost always a space at the bottom corners of a garage door where the door seal has worn and no longer meets the side frame. Rubber garage door gaskets don’t last forever. ![]() Garage doors are a common (and often overlooked) entry point for mice and other pests (see Maintain Your Garage Door to Keep Mice Out). You can purchase door sealing kits that include a header seal, jamb seals, and door bottom seals. Weather stripping is available in many varieties including wrapped foam flange, foam tape, rubber, vinyl, felt, and metal compression strips. Weather stripping around a door seals the sides and top as well, eliminating even more gaps to keep pests out. There are even automatic door sweeps that drop down and seal into place when the door is closed. Door sweeps range from vinyl or rubber strips, to a simple nylon brush on a screw-on strip, to more elaborate brushes that are enclosed in a metal threshold. If the distance between the bottom of the door and the threshold is more than ¼ inch, a mouse can get through it and you need a tight-fitting door sweep. ![]() To pest-proof a door, you can install door sweeps and thresholds at the bottom, along with weather seals or weather stripping around the sides and top. Certain outdoor insects and other arthropods such as crickets, cockroaches, and millipedes frequently get into lower levels through faulty doors. Just like people, mice and rats commonly use doors to enter buildings, but they typically go under them rather than through them. Do Your Doors Need to Be Pest-Proofed? By Chris Williams on August 12, 2015.
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