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Remove Old Weather Stripping

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Remove & Install Door Weatherstrips. House weather stripping hacks.

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What happens here

To begin, open the door to access the weather stripping. Insert the flat tool (e.g., painter's 5-in-1 or screwdriver) behind the weather strip, between the strip and the door frame. Gently pry the weather strip away from the frame to loosen it. Once a section is loose, you can often grab the strip by hand and pull it out along the entire length of the door frame. The presenter shows an example of a weather strip with old paint on it, which is why it's being replaced.

Goal: Detach the existing weather stripping from the door frame

Tools and materials

  • Painter's 5-in-1 Tool Unspecified — Prying the weather stripping from the door frame
  • Safety Gloves Unspecified — Protecting hands during removal and installation
  • Old Weather Stripping Unspecified — The item being removed and replaced

What they say

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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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