Browse Forums Windows & Doors Re: Front door help! 8Jun 11, 2009 1:44 pm Hi Ya Ninga, I'm an away worker up in the mining camps and as I'm always moving camp to camp I am forever sealing up my windows and doors to keep the light out during my nightshifts. Why dont they darken the dongers for the nightshift workers. Oops i digress here. There is a sealer that I use to seal off my doors that I get from bunnings. Its made by Raven and is called door and window weather strip. It comes in brown or white. It is a soft ridge of foam that comes in two strips joined side by side that can be easily separated to make one long strip 5m (2.5m x2) long. Easy to cut to length with scissors. It has a sticky backing that that is not so sticky that you can have a second go at lining it up if you are a bit wonky the first time. Stuff to avoid like the plague is a stripping that is very square in shape and is like a thick foam tape. Once it's on it's there to stay to the next millenium. You will never remove it. I made that mistake and was never able to get it off. This stuff is not compressible either so the door will be very very difficult if not impossible to close. The raven stuff was about 5 or 7 dollars at Bunnings. Your door may be a little tight to close for the first few days until the foam strip compresses to the right thickness. Cheers Roger Re: Front door help! 9Jun 11, 2009 2:14 pm ![]() Stuff to avoid like the plague is a stripping that is very square in shape and is like a thick foam tape. Once it's on it's there to stay to the next millenium. You will never remove it. I made that mistake and was never able to get it off. This stuff is not compressible either so the door will be very very difficult if not impossible to close. You know what I was just thinking back to when I painted the door frames a few weeks ago and had all this foam crap on the inside of the frames. I tried to get it off and the sticky tape came off but left all the foam on there which I had to scrape off. Guess I know now why that was on there... to stop the door from banging in the wind! I guess I also know how crap it is to get off, so I'll definitely avoid that stuff! I'll give the raven seals a try, I might even get down to my local Bunnings tonight hopefully! Thanks for the tip ![]() Re: Front door help! 11Jun 11, 2009 7:10 pm Well I got the Raven weathershields from bunnings, the R48 for about $7. Meant for gaps 3 to 5mm. May have gone a little overboard as its now pretty hard to close the door, but I'll give it a few days and see if it gets easier, otherwise I may go back and get the smaller size (gaps 2 - 4mm) which I guess isn't that much smaller. No banging though, so its definitely good stuff, and easy to put on. Thanks for the advice guys, it was very much appreciated! Building Standards; Getting It Right! AS2047 Section 6 Page 31 speaks to Construction/Tolerances of Windows and external glazed doors in buildings Check also New South Wales Guide to Standards and Tolerances,… 12 25564 ![]() 920 was enough to get the furniture in. We live in a pretty safe area and it’s great to see people walking to the front door. We’re not too fussed about people… 4 3711 If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 9011 ![]() |