Nepean’s postwar and 1970s housing stock has door frames that have been through forty to fifty Ottawa winters, and the weatherstripping in these homes reflects that age. In Craig Henry and Knoxdale, original or long-overdue-for-replacement seals are providing a fraction of the thermal performance they should. In Meadowlands split-levels, the secondary entries that get constant use have the worst seals on the property. We replace weatherstripping across all of Nepean the same day.
The door frames in Craig Henry and Knoxdale homes from the late 1960s and early 1970s have a specific weatherstripping challenge: the frame rabbets and stops were designed to work with seal profiles that are no longer standard in the current market. A foam adhesive strip applied directly to the door stop face is a common improvised repair in these homes — someone noticed the draft, went to the hardware store, and applied the closest available product. This patch provides minimal improvement because the foam is in the wrong profile position and isn’t matched to the gap the frame actually has.
Correct weatherstripping replacement on a Craig Henry exterior door requires assessing the specific gap between the door face and the stop, selecting a compression seal in the profile that correctly fills that gap, and installing it in the kerf or rabbet position that the frame was designed to receive it in. The result is a thermal performance improvement that a hardware-store foam strip can’t approach.
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Meadowlands’ split-level homes have secondary entries at the lower level that receive constant daily use and almost no maintenance attention. The door sweep on a Meadowlands lower-level entry that has been cycling through Ottawa winters for twenty-five years without replacement is flat, torn at the edges, and in some cases entirely missing sections that have been worn away by Ottawa’s winter threshold conditions. The threshold seal — the interface between the door bottom and the threshold saddle — has compressed to the point where it provides no barrier to the cold air that pools at floor level in Ottawa’s winters and finds every gap in the ground-level seal system.
We assess and replace the complete seal system on Meadowlands secondary entries — not just the visible failure point, but the full four-point seal that a heavily used Ottawa entry door needs.
Commercial entries on Merivale Road and in the Nepean business corridor have door bottom seals and threshold systems that wear at rates reflecting their traffic volume. An automatic door bottom on a Merivale Road pharmacy entry cycles through more operations in a day than a residential entry sees in a week, and the seal’s wear rate reflects that. We replace commercial weatherstripping and automatic door bottom seals on Nepean’s commercial corridor with products rated for commercial cycle rates.
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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 Nepean, filmed on site.
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