Sliding barn door - weather stripping

[Humblebub]

For logical reasons my son has used sliding doors on his shop. While they are firmly latched they are far from weather tight and while I have never seen tight sliding doors, others may have. It is routine winter weather conditions here to have 70-100 kph wind with horizontal snow. Any wisdom regarding a way to make these doors more resistant to wind driven snow?

 

[bmblank]

That's a good question. There's a good chance I'll be putting a sliding door in my my pole barn when I rehab it.

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[CaveCreekRay]

Google "Barn door brush seals."

Different companies make them and they come in a zillion different styles.

http://precisionbrush.com/brush-seals

I am looking at them for dust control on my barn.

Ray

Amazon has it in 3' sections.... http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BU8UH0E?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_sfl_title_7&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

[Humblebub]

Ray, thanks for that. A reasonable solution.

 

[Diydave]

We used to have 4 14-16' long doors on the garage. Winds so bad on this hill, they would flap out a foot, at the bottom. The brush would have helped some, but they always were a real PITA, we even made special hooks, to hook them in place, but still had them blowing in the wind. When we went to slide up garage doors, was the best thing since sliced bread...

 

[Ike]

I used the foam pipe insulation and made it so it just touched the door when opening if I remember right I left it about a 1/4 past the door frame. I then use my cam lock fasteners on the inside to pull the door in to the foam. Mie has held up for 8 years

 

[coachgeo]

I used the foam pipe insulation and made it so it just touched the door when opening if I remember right I left it about a 1/4 past the door frame. I then use my cam lock fasteners on the inside to pull the door in to the foam. Mie has held up for 8 years

hmmm.. picture is worth a thousand words.... course most those words are miss interpretations of the picture..... but still...

 

[Dalroo]

My barn has 3 12' x 12' roll up doors - not barn type like yours, but I think my efforts may be applicable. On my doors, along the top, there was a 2" gap along the entire width of the door, which in my fuzzy math equals a 2' hole for each door. A 6' opening defeats a lot of the reasons I had the barn insulated.

To fix, I installed brushes along the entire width on the header of each door. It cost less than $200 total and the result is pretty amazing. Even though the doors are not insulated and there are gaps along the edges and rails, it knocked a huge amount of draft down. With a simple ceramic heater going the barn holds a great deal of warmth.

http://www.memtechbrush.com/brush-seals/sectional-overhead-doors.htm

These are easy to install, and give some flexibility on installation. Took a couple of hours, but very well worth it.