Light around the edges means your side and top seals are failing. Replacing garage door weatherstripping is a small investment that cuts drafts, moisture, and blowing snow before winter sets in.
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Is it the garage door weatherstripping?
Side and top seals fail quietly — a strip of daylight here, a cold draft there. Here's how to check yours in under a minute.
Close the door on a bright day and look along the jambs and header. Strips of daylight mean the vinyl or rubber fin is no longer touching the door — every one of those gaps is an open channel for cold air and blowing snow.
On a windy day, hold a hand along the edges of the closed door. Feeling moving air means the seal has flattened, shrunk or pulled away — common after a few Calgary winters of expansion and contraction.
UV and cold make old garage door weatherstripping brittle. If the fin cracks when you flex it, or sections have pulled away from the frame, it isn't sealing anything — it just looks like it is.
Blowing snow finding its way in around a closed door is a sure sign the perimeter seal has failed. Left through winter, that moisture refreezes nightly and works on your tracks, rollers and bottom seal too.
Flat, upfront pricing
The final price is confirmed on-site before any work begins, based on your opening size and the material it needs. There are no add-ons once the tech arrives — the price you approve is the price on the invoice, day or evening, weekday or weekend.
Every other repair we offer works the same way — a firm, written price confirmed on-site before the tech lifts a wrench.
From call to a sealed garage
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Tell us where you're seeing light or feeling drafts, and roughly the size of the opening. It helps us arrive with the right profiles.
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A truck carrying the common seal profiles and colours heads out — same-day slots are usually available.
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Failed stripping comes off, the frame is cleaned and checked for damage, and we confirm the opening is sound before fitting anything new.
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Each strip is positioned against the closed door so the fin contacts evenly along its full length, then fastened and trimmed.
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With the door closed we verify no daylight shows along the sides or top, and that the door travels freely against the new seals.
Why it's worth doing right
Garage door weatherstripping is a modest job with an outsized payoff — a warmer garage, lower heating loss, and protection for everything the cold would otherwise reach.
Calgary's freeze-thaw cycles punish seal material. We fit cold-rated vinyl that stays flexible at -30°C instead of cracking like the builder-grade strips most doors ship with.
A seal only works if it touches the door evenly along its full length. We set each strip's position against your actual door and frame — accounting for out-of-square openings that generic fitting misses.
Replacing garage door weatherstripping in the fall seals the garage before the first deep freeze. It's one short visit that protects the door hardware — and whatever you store in the garage — all winter.
Our trucks carry the common seal profiles and colours, so the job is measured, fitted and checked in a single visit — usually around an hour for a standard double door.
Common questions
Yes. Garage door weatherstripping seals the sides and top of the opening, where the door meets the frame. The bottom seal closes the gap between the door and the driveway. Many garages need both — we check the full perimeter on every visit.
It stops the drafts, which is most of what makes a garage feel cold. An attached garage with sound perimeter seals loses noticeably less heat, and rooms above or beside the garage feel the difference too.
Builder-grade strips often crack within a few winters. The cold-rated material we fit stays flexible through the freeze-thaw cycles and typically lasts many years — and we check it during every maintenance visit.
It depends on the size of your opening and the material it needs. We confirm the exact price on-site before any work begins, and there is no diagnostic or dispatch fee.
In most cases, yes. We carry the common colours and can usually match the existing frame so the new seals look like they've always been there.
No. The quote is the quote — Saturday night or Tuesday afternoon, no emergency surcharge, no weekend fee, no holiday rate. We're available 7 days a week, 7am to 10pm.
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