M-D Building Products82594 36 in. Beige Vinyl Concealed Kerf/Channel Fit Under Door Seal

This was purchased to replace the bottom seal on a Y2K vintage Pease door. The door skin tabs / ears slide into grooves molded into the seal; no fasteners required. It slid in very snugly without any lube. Something like dish soap or other lube might be needed on your door (mine was recently sanded and repainted so clean and smooth). Ships to fit a 36" door but trims easily to fit a 32" (I used Craftsman Handicutters). Unfortunately only available in beige instead of my preferred brown but at half the price of ordering the one from Pease, it is perfect. If you have any doubts as to if this product will fit your door, the MD Products website has a dimensional drawing available.

This is a hard to find item that you will not find in most hardware stores unless they special order it for you. The last time I had to replace these sweeps I had to order through Ace and they cost almost $20 each.They were the exact same item as these. So this is a great deal that I don't think you will be able to match anywhere else. They are hard to find and I don't think any other company makes them.The first time I replaced them it was VERY hard getting the old ones out. There was a little bit of rust and grime holding them in. I found the easiest way to get them out was to spray a little bit of WD-40 or some better spray oil with teflon (like tri-flow) right into the slots and let it sit in for a few minutes. You are going to have to take the door off the hinges so don't even try doing it while still hung in the doorframe. You'll kill yourself trying to do it that way as they come out hard and go in even harder.After getting the old ones out you should spray a little more oil into the slots and maybe try and clean them out with something to get any rust or grime out of the slots. Be careful not to bend them or deform them or you will ruin the door and never get these in. Just pull off the door from the hinges and work on it on a pair of sawhorses or other sturdy workbench. Give yourself some time to do the work -don't do it on a cold day or if there are bugs outside. Let the oil do its work for a half hour or more if your doors have a bit of rust or have gotten all grungy with gummy yuck.Pushing the new ones in might be tough. I found that a large rubber mallet works best. Tapping on the end works great where long constant pressure doesn't want to budge the strip. A series of light taps pops them right back in.I'm getting to be an expert at replacing these as I have 2 doors with them and the dudes who installed the doorframes put them WAY too low so as the sweeps just grind on the tile floors when you open the doors. In fact, in my back door the door can not be opened all the way as it just stops at a point where the floor slopes up. This puts a lot of wear and tear on the sweeps and I need to replace them every couple of years. When I moved into this place the sweeps were totally wore out and all the dangly bits had broken and peeled off and the sweep was doing nothing. You could see daylight and it was costing a lot to heat the place with all the cold air rushing right in. It was really hard to get off that first time and that's how I learned the spray-on penetrating oil trick. It never would have come off without that.I sort of wish I didn't have Pease doors as this proprietary design is a real PITA because I can't source a cheap replacement sweep at a local building or hardware store. Thank god for Amazon and having EVERYTHING at a good price. I was sick of paying $20 a piece for these special-ordered through my local expensive hardware store. But even at $20 each it was saving money over heating the outside. These seals DO work well when they are new.

This installed easily.We have a Pease metal door that we purchased from Home Depot around 1999. Air was blowing under the door because the sweep was worn out. I found this item on Amazon after doing an internet search. Some search results included instructions that seemed very easy. They were right.I opened the door. Used a pliers to grab the end of the old sweep and, after working it in and out a few times, it slid right out. Then I applied some silicon plumbers grease to the tracks in the new sweep and slid it into the tracks on the bottom of the door. Done.The door now has a nice snug fit which requires a small effort to open.Note: The instructions that come attached to the packaging are for a nail in sweep. This one slides into tracks on the bottom of the door. If you have an inch of clearence between the floor and the door, you do not have to remove the door.

Was happy with this product as a replacement. It still does it's job but it started ripping within 6 months of installation.

Glad to see you can still find these online as none of the box stores near me carried them in stock. The old one was a bit hard to get off the bottom of my door....used needle nose pliers and a great bit of effort to get the old one off. Did not have to take the door off the hinges to replace it. The new one slid on with a bit of effort. Now the bottom seals good-and-tight and it takes a bit more effort to open and close the door since the new seal fits much better/tighter then the old worn-out one did.

If you own Pease doors and are at all concerned about the condition of your door sweeps, then you know by now that you'll find few options at the home repair stores. I've had no luck and wound up resorting to sweeps that slip over the bottom of the door. The problem with these is that they are unsightly and now create an area for water to seep into and slowly rot out the bottom. The appropriate solution is to try and not defeat the engineered design and go with the right product. That's where these sweeps come in. The color didn't matter to me as you can barely see it from the average standing height. They do fit on snug and depending on the condition of your sweep track, you may have to remove the door. It's longer than advertised so you'll need to cut it to fit. The instructions state to place the drip edge to the outside however fail to diagram what the drip edge is. Looking at the profile of the sweep, it's very hard to tell what should be to the outside so I had to make a guess. Beyond that when it's on the door fits incredibly tight, even with the adjustable threshold all the way down. It will wear in over time and will work better (I hope).

You are really in for a chore when you install this door bottom. You are going to need to consider trimming the piece, using electricians wire lube, cleaning and adjusting the channels on the door, and pulling with special goose neck needle nose pliers. A pro can get this to fit after wrestling with it a long time. It is not fragile, but you do need to be gentle with it. Never rest the heavy steel door on the ribbed bottom seal You can bend and stress the ribs if you do. When the seal is on, you must hang the door without putting weight on the seal. The good news is that this does give you a new seal just like the factory seal.