Kanata’s west-side location means its entry doors face Ottawa Valley prevailing winds that urban Ottawa properties don’t. Weatherstripping failure on a west-facing Kanata entry produces more cold air infiltration than the same failure on a sheltered Ottawa urban door — because the wind that’s driving through the gap is stronger and more sustained. We replace weatherstripping across all of Kanata the same day.
The prevailing westerlies that move across Ottawa’s western suburban boundary strike Kanata homes on their west-facing entries directly. A weatherstripping seal that provides adequate protection in calm conditions loses its effectiveness as wind pressure drives air through the gap between the seal and the door face more aggressively than the seal’s contact force can resist. Standard foam weatherstripping that is barely adequate in a sheltered Ottawa urban location fails visibly and audibly — producing the whistling draft sound that Kanata homeowners hear in January — on west and northwest-facing Kanata entries.
We specify heavier-profile compression seals and pile weatherstripping on Kanata west-facing entries, selected for their ability to maintain effective contact under the wind pressure differential that Ottawa Valley westerlies produce. The profile difference between a standard and a heavy-profile seal looks minor on the product — but the performance difference on a Kanata west-facing entry in a January wind is immediate and substantial. If the draft is reaching you at floor level rather than around the door edges, our threshold & sill repair service addresses the sweep and threshold seal directly.
Feeling a draft through a Kanata door right now? Call 613-265-3667 for same-day weatherstripping service — or request a free quote online.
The homes in Beaverbrook and Glen Cairn have door frames that are forty-plus years old, and some of them have weatherstripping that has never been fully replaced — just patched or supplemented at the most obviously failing point. Forty-year-old weatherstripping that hasn’t been fully replaced has compressed flat on the head and sides, has completely failed at the threshold, and has allowed Ottawa’s freeze-thaw cycling to open gaps in the exterior caulking that the new weatherstripping alone can’t address.
We carry out full four-point seal replacement on Beaverbrook entries — all four sides of the door assembly, plus exterior caulking where it has cracked or pulled away from the frame perimeter. The comprehensive approach on a Beaverbrook entry produces results that a single-side patch doesn’t. Where the caulking failure has already let water into the frame, that becomes a door frame repair in Kanata rather than a seal job — and we’ll tell you plainly which one you’re looking at.
The larger homes in Kanata Lakes and Morgan’s Grant have entry doors that are frequently wider and taller than standard residential dimensions — 36-inch wide entries, double-door assemblies, and in some cases custom-width entries that require weatherstripping sourced in lengths that standard retail doesn’t carry. We source weatherstripping in the lengths and profiles required for Kanata Lakes’ larger entries, and we install with the precision that a large entry door demands — because an installation that is 5mm off on a standard 80-inch door is proportionally less significant than the same error on a 96-inch entry.
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Find the real source of the draft — worn seals, sweeps and thresholds that have set flat.
Why Cold Air Comes In →Worn sweeps and compressed threshold seals replaced so cold air stops pooling at the floor.
Threshold & Sill Repair →Stop seals and locks freezing shut over an Ottawa winter with the right seal profiles.
Prevent Doors Freezing →Real jobs from our Ottawa & Ottawa Valley crews. The same hands-on weatherstripping replacement work we bring to Kanata, filmed on site.
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