Sealing gaps at foot of garage door to make watertight

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LawKrime

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Hi all,

Quick background, recently had a galvanised steel water bar installed at base of garage door to help stop water coming in during heavy rain. However, there is a gap between the bar and the garage door tracks. Probably 3mm or so, but of course it does allow water to come in (see pics). Does anyone have any suggestions on what to use to seal and make this watertight?

The guys who installed the bar generally suggested "silicone", but I don't want to make more work for myself (i.e. it doesn't do a good job and I have to scrape it out, or worse, it fails badly during heavy rain and the garage floods again) so I want to get it right first time. I've had a quick browse over sealants, foams, a broad range of mastics, fillers, repair cements in a tube. It has to adhere well to galvanised steel, concrete and the garage door tracks, which I think are powder-coated aluminium, while being completely weather-proof. I'm practical but not terribly experienced so I figured I'd ask the kind people of the ScrewFix Community first.

Cheers in advance.

Nick

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I wouldn’t use just ordinary silicone I would use one of the hybrid sealant tubes like Stixall or OB1 both sold by our hosts and both vey good, Get a tube of grey or black, clean out the gap as much as possible and apply, should work a treat.
 
def just silicone it, fill into the return - rather than just straight up. So, do 10mm high but 30mm into the return make sure its squashed in, let it set then layer onto and so forth, trick is to make sure you have squashed it into the gaps.
 
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