How to seal 20mm gap between garage door and wall?

HunterBargainHunter on 11/02/2021 - 23:18

Hi,
My garage door when closed has a reasonable gap (15 to 30mm) between the wall and the sectional garage door. I see a lot of insects come in but thought it's normal and I clean it up every once in a while.
I saw a brush type garage seal on bunnings (Moroday 35mm x 2.55m Garage Brush Door Seal) which may help. though I can't find the part that it can be fixed to on the wall on a 45 degree angle.
The plot twist is that I've just seen the neighbour's cat play with something in front of the house, kudos to eufy cam, it's actually a mouse!
Does this brush thing stop mice or how do I go about fortifying the garage?

appreciate your advice everyone!

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Comments

  • SF3 on 11/02/2021 - 23:52

    fortifying the garage

    🔥 throwers

  • AustriaBargain on 12/02/2021 - 01:22

    If you soak it with poison won't that keep the insects away? Or coat it with some kind of long lasting sticky poison.

  • apsilon on 12/02/2021 - 06:48
    +8

    A gap that large I'd be looking to install a timber frame then rubber weather strips for the last few mm.

  • Euphemistic on 12/02/2021 - 07:11
    +3

    A garage is not designed to be sealed. You can try to improve it. But ultimately there will still be gaps.

    • singlemalt72 on 12/02/2021 - 07:42
      +7

      I don't think he is talking hermetically sealed, just blocking up the gap.

      • ESEMCE on 12/02/2021 - 08:47
        +4

        A mouse can get through any hole larger than the diameter of a pencil. They can also jump and climb far better than you'd ever expect.
        And if they really want to get in, they'll chew their way through.
        At a former workplace, it took less than 1 week for mice to chew holes through the freshly laid asphalt floor in a storage shed.

        Brushes are good at keeping most insects out.

  • AndyC1 on 12/02/2021 - 08:56

    Try a shop that only sells or fixes garage doors and ask them. Make sure you have a photo to show them as it WILL help.

  • Cheeper on 12/02/2021 - 11:11

    Need a photo to be able to give more suitable solution.
    There is a tar impregnated foam type material that is used to fill gaps in brickwork that would fill a gap like that. Have a look at bunnings.

  • HunterBargainHunter on 12/02/2021 - 13:00

    Thanks all for your answers. (cats with ♨️ throwers 😂)
    here's the link to how it looks like when closed
    https://ibb.co/c26BjfX

    there are a couple of people who put in a brush seal for $200 on Facebook marketplace, but I doubt it works against mice. I would prefer to get the stuff and DIY to save a few hundred bucks (ozbargain style).

    I can't find a tar foam item on bunnings website, or anything harder than the brushes I mentioned above.

    Thanks!

    • Logical on 13/02/2021 - 22:22

      The door slides vertically in a steel U channel. I highly doubt that mice will be able to crawl through and around the channel to get into the garage. So you just need to focus on stopping roaches etc… a brush type seal will do the trick as it still needs to provide for the door to go up and down with some tolerance for movement.

  • the Unforgiven on 12/02/2021 - 19:08

    Can't you get wood at that size and seal it in with silastic?

    • Euphemistic on 12/02/2021 - 19:27

      Then the door won’t open. Needs to be flexible enough to allow the door to open.

      • the Unforgiven on 12/02/2021 - 19:51

        Then just seal the wood to the wall or door to take up the gap, then the door can still open

        Or get a flat piece of rubber and attach it so it covers the gap

  • frostface on 17/02/2021 - 23:05

    Garage doors are a tricky gap to seal, I'd suggest you try the Raven RP49 seal screw fixed to the brickwork. It won't be perfect, but better than what you've got. You can get these from Access Hardware (they have a store in every capital city), ring in advanced as they might need to order it in.

    • HunterBargainHunter on 17/02/2021 - 23:49

      Thanks mate, and everyone for your help.
      I can find the same model number in Bunnings but only 1220mm. there's another part that's about 2.4m with soft brush for garage doors at bunnings, however I'm not sure how to fix it to the brick side. at my friend's garage, they installed a metal track of sorts at a 45 degrees angle.
      I'll call access hw and try my luck at bunnings too.
      Cheers.

      • frostface on 18/02/2021 - 21:32

        Not an easy one, you wouldn't easily be able to do a masonry plug screw so close to the edge of a brick as your hole will risk cracking and breaking away a large chunk of brick. I would probably try polyurethane such as Sikaflex Pro, but you want to know what you're doing as once you commit you can't go back!

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