Cold Hall Way from Front Door

Wabby · 6 Jan 2018

A couple of years ago we had a UPVc front door installed as the wooden one was draught as hell.

Now this UPVc door is letting some right cold in.

I have an infrared thermometer and its showing 14 to 16 degrees all the way around the door, but between 7 and 9 across the bottom (threshold).

It has a low profile aluminium threshold with rubber grove seal thing in it.

I have adjusted the CAMS on the door and the bits that it locks into, but for the life of me cannot get the hall way to be 'warm'.

Anybody any ideas? Its doing my bloody head in!

Doggit · 6 Jan 2018

Pictures from both inside and outside please. Have you another door that you can check the thermal characteristics against.

Wabby · 6 Jan 2018

I put the p-profile on tonight in a bad attempt to stop the draught.
I also tried caulking from outside.

The second to last picture is a thermal curtain with door snake and still it gets cold

Wabby · 6 Jan 2018

Have to sit in front room (to left of the picture) with door slightly ajar as got tow cats and if they can't get about, the carpets end up like the one at the front door.

Doggit · 6 Jan 2018

Use the IR thermometer a bit more carefully, and try and pinpoint where the heat changes are. The panel at the bottom of the door is pretty useless, and will be colder than the rest of the door, and some of the cold may be seeping up from the floor. In pictures 6 and 7, check to see if the bottoms of the upright trims on either side of the door frame are sealed at the bottom, as that might be letting cold air up there. In picture 5, it looks as though there may be a gap in the rubber seal at the botom left of the door.

Run round the door with a long lit match, and then you can check for draughts, but everything looks okay I'm afraid.

Wabby · 7 Jan 2018

Culprit found in daylight. The rubber strip in the sill does not seal to the door. Its a out 4mm gap on the hinge side.

Can I adjust the door downwards in this type of hinge?

foxhole · 7 Jan 2018

How much time do you spend living in the hall?

Doggit · 7 Jan 2018

It looks as though the hinge plates need loosening and lowering down to drop the door. The door may have to come off to get at them, and then you'd mark the frame above and below the hinge plates so you know how much you've moved them.

cwhaley · 16 Jan 2018

Doggit said:
How much time do you spend living in the hall?

Like most of us probably not a lot, but who wants to have to go through a cold hall every time they go upstairs or downstairs??

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