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Draught excluders

Last activity 16 January 2015 by Jaitch

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eodmatt

Does any one know where I can get a draught excluder for my front door? I have noticed the odd mosquito coming in under the door and I detest the pesky things.

Jaitch

You can get tubes of black foam rubber designed to insulate pipes from plumbing suppliers.

You can attach them to the door using stout flexible plastic or strips of flexible metal such as thin Inox (stainless steel). So when the door is closed, the ribber forms a seal between the door and the floor.

I also know an auto store in Q1 that sells strips of foam rubber which can be glued to the door frame so a seal is formed when the door is closed (sides and top of door).

Of course, on other countries they use 'sills' - that strip of wood that is affixed to the floor and forms a snug fit with the bottom of the door.

eodmatt

Heh heh heh, a mosquito advising me on keeping mosquitoes out of the house, how appropriate! Thanks!

I don't think that the pipe insulation will last more than a couple of weeks before disintegrating due to the incessant, furious brushing and cleaning that goes on here. What I am looking for is something like this:

http://www.ibexindustrialbrushes.com/php/images/thumbs/953.jpg

Its like a strip of brush bristles

Jaitch

eodmatt wrote:

Its like a strip of brush bristles


The one on my office front door is like your brush device bit it flaps up out of the way.

Let me try to describe it. It has a solid rubber strip mounted as were your brushes.
See: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hardwareireland.ie%2Fjs%2Fplugins%2Fimagemanager%2Ffiles%2FDraughtExcluders_lrg.jpg&f=1
Mine is made from two Inox (stainless steel) strips - the back one wider than the front one. Have a machine shop with sharp drills drill holes every 10cm. Also drill three or four mounting holes in the wider strip. Rivet them together, sandwiching the rubber in between the strips.

Real easy to get done in ChoLon.

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