Sliding Door Seals: How to Stop Air Leaks in Your Sliding Doors
If your patio doors are drafty during the cooler months, you’ll probably need sliding door seals to stop the chill. Rather than huddling up on the sofa with a blanket or turning up your heating, you’ll find that replacing your sliding door seals will provide a much more cost-effective solution in the long run.
External Sliding Door Brush Seal
Not only will brush seals make your living spaces less drafty and more comfortable, they’ll help make your home quieter, cleaner and more energy-efficient too. Also called draft seals, weatherstripping bush or wool pile seals, brush strip is inexpensive and versatile and helps to protect your home against draughts, noise pollution, dust, insects and water ingress.
Replacing Your Door Seals
How often you’ll need to replace your external sliding door seals will depend on various factors, such as the quality of your brush seal, how often you open and close your sliding doors and the amount of sunlight and direct heat your seals are exposed to.
A high-quality brush seal will typically last for several years before it needs to be replaced, but it’s worth regularly inspecting your seal for signs of wear and deterioration every year. Do your sliding door seals have any gaps, fraying or compression loss? If so, it’s probably time to replace it to keep your home warm and draught-free.
Can Brush Pile Be Used on Other Types of Doors?
Absolutely! Brush seal is versatile, durable and easy to install and can be used on various types of doors and windows. From sliding doors, hinged doors and casement windows to sliding windows, cabinet and wardrobe doors.
Self-Adhesive Sliding Door Seals
Our self-adhesive sliding door draught excluder with level fin is available in various brush heights and in three different lengths – 7.5m, 30m or 50m. With a soft multifilament pile yarn on a woven, reinforced translucent backing, our sliding door seals have two welded clear centre fins for improved weather sealing of sliding window and doors. The centre fin helps to ensure a tight weather seal when used on sliding windows or doors. Effective in a temperature range of -10ºc to +55ºc, our high-quality brush strip is extremely versatile and durable.
Order Your Energy Efficient Brush Seal Today
Ideal for your home, workplace or commercial building, brush seals will help improve the energy efficiency, noise reduction and dust and insect prevention of your building. Easy to install and highly durable, order your self-adhesive sliding door seals today or call us on 01785 282 910 to talk to one of our knowledgeable team.