Hi,
We've recently moved into a property (Feb), and noticed with some of the heavy rain these last few weeks that there is water coming in seemingly "under" the front door...
Now, the front door is wooden and quite elderly.. (it's single glazed i think) so it could be just that the door is old and not up to the job any longer.. But I've been monitoring it for a few days, and on Sunday morning was able to see the issue appear from "no problem" to "serious issue" within a half hour period
I observed that:
I had a look at the door, and only being really familiar with uPVC stuff (hah, familiar!) noticed that there were seals around the top, left and right sides of the frame.. there isn't anything at the bottom apart from small metal strip, which is clearly doing absolutely zip.
So, i guess the questions from me are:-
Ty,
Chris.
We've recently moved into a property (Feb), and noticed with some of the heavy rain these last few weeks that there is water coming in seemingly "under" the front door...
Now, the front door is wooden and quite elderly.. (it's single glazed i think) so it could be just that the door is old and not up to the job any longer.. But I've been monitoring it for a few days, and on Sunday morning was able to see the issue appear from "no problem" to "serious issue" within a half hour period
I observed that:
- Top, Left and Right sides of the door were not wet
- Top, Left and Right sides of the door frame were also not wet
- Front of door has 'splash marks' on it
- Bottom of door was extremely wet
I had a look at the door, and only being really familiar with uPVC stuff (hah, familiar!) noticed that there were seals around the top, left and right sides of the frame.. there isn't anything at the bottom apart from small metal strip, which is clearly doing absolutely zip.
So, i guess the questions from me are:-
- What do i go an search / ask for at my local DIY superstore in order to add some sort of "seal" to the bottom of the door? Is there a special name for it?
- Would it be worth contact someone professional to take a look if the door, frame, both?! have actually failed and need replacing... who would this be.. a carpenter?
Ty,
Chris.