Remove Existing Weather Strips

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Remove & Install Door Weatherstrips. House weather stripping hacks.

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What happens here

To remove the weather strips, first open the door. Take your painter's 5-in-1 tool or flat screwdriver and insert the flat edge right behind the weather strip, between the strip and the door frame. Gently pry the strip away from the frame. Work your way down the length of the strip, pulling it out as you go. The strips are typically held in by a groove and can be removed with relative ease. The video shows older strips with paint splatters, indicating previous painting without removal.

Goal: Detach and extract weather strips from the door frame

Tools and materials

Painter's 5-in-1 Tool — Prying and removing weather strips

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uninstall them. We're just going to open up the door. going to put our tool right behind the weather strips and then they easily pull out just like that. You can see sometimes you can grab them even possibly without a tool and they'll pull out. Makes it a little bit easier if you can just use a flat tool to get it started. And then they just pull right out. And these ones got a little bit of paint on them from a previous painter. You can see the paint on these right here. And it's diff. You can't get it off. So you can buy new ones to reinstall them. Or we actually have a video we show you how we paint them with a flat black paint before reinstalling them. But just to

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