Preparing your Door for Weather Stripping

Part of the Video Series How to Replace Toilets & Door Thresholds

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After removing old weather stripping from an exterior door, prepare the area for installing new weather stripping by removing nails and scraping off old caulking. Learn how in this free DIY home repair and improvement video lesson.

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Preparing your Door for Weather Stripping
Today we are replacing and removing the old weather stripping around an exterior back door. After you’ve removed the old stripping, you’ll probably have a bunch of nails left in here. And what you’ll want to do is just pull them out. On this door, we don’t have any caulking around it, but if you did you’d just get yourself a plain scraper and you’d just go along and scrape all the old caulking off, which we don’t have on this one. But there is some over here. And just make sure that it’s all smooth and even- watch out for those nails. And that’s how you would prepare the area to install the new weather stripping.

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