M-D Building Products52000 1-1/8 in. x 17 ft. Bronze Aluminum Nail-on Weatherseal for Doors and Windows

I read that some thought instructions might have made it easier for them to install this. Some complained the holes were staggered.I only needed about 3 feet of the product to take care of where the two doors come together. We bought second hand doors, and this gasketing issue must have been to the reason. The primary opening door is warped. No problem. Add a thin strip of metal with the other gaskets to take up the slack.The one I received had no holes. Since you are looking to buy a home repair item, let's presume you own some tools like a hammer, a drill and some bits. Since I did not want to use the entire strip, I slit the plastic shipping 'bad' in a corner where the end of the strip was, and cut the tape.I grabbed a piece of scrap wood and drilled some 1/16" holes (would that be about 2mm for the non-imperial ones?). They came out about 3 inches (10cm) apart, close to the edge. I cut the strip to length with a pair of scissors. It is nice they did not go so think that I would have to find my tin snips, and any one that did not have tin snips would have to go buy some just for this project.I taped the cut piece in place and drilled a hole about half the distance of depth of what the nail was to go. I'm happy that I did. The nail is a little less than 1/16" wide, so it slid in to the depth. Using a tack hammer (you have to tap lightly), I drove the nail to just touching the strip, but not smashing it in. I preceded with the rest. The strip came out pretty smooth, barring a couple misses with the tack hammer.Now for the fitting: our situation is a little unique with the warped door. Where the doors come together the strip needed to drop down farther than near the hinge. I did not pull down on the metal, that would only knick it. I used a trick that I learned a while ago.Take a coin (I used the scissors), press it near the nails at a slight angle and make a crease (The factory creases are there to help you do this). The nail side will stay, the other side will bend slightly toward the door opening. Do a little at a time and watch what happens. Test the doors seal every couple minutes by looking for light shining through the seal. In the area where the light in shining through, use the coin at the newly formed crease again, but just draw one inch. Close the door and look again.Note: you do not want the metal to press hard against the door. The interaction will add more wear and tear to the items. You just want the metal to contact the door to seal out most drafts and insects. Take your time. You did not want to do this twice.

I bought this and the similar stuff that costs more than double. I was getting the fancier stuff for areas that were more important and had I higher need for breeze reduction. After installing this and the fancier stuff, I think the only thing I liked better about the fancier stuff was the nails. I plan to buy more of this and a pack of better nails when I weatherstrip more of our old casement windows. These nails are a little too thin and a little too short so I spent a lot of time either dealing with bent nails or just trying to hammer them in as they're shorter then my thumb so they were a bit of a pain to get started especially when compared to the other. Yes, the fancier stuff is maybe a fraction thicker and has folds it's not good enough to warrant the price difference. This would be five stars with a $3 pack of nails.

This works so good for closing the gaps perfectly!! Will be buying for our front door as well. Can't be happier with how well this works! Will take you about 40 minutes or so to install and adjust, but well worth it!

This product is NO good. Once I bought this product and read up on it and tried to install it became VERY apparent that the concept does not work. When I nailed the product (notice that I did not call it a seal) to the door jamb the metal distorts at each nail. Once the metal is distorted and you close the door, I had leak spot at each nail. I removed this product and placed it in the pile of crap where it belongs.

Very well made. Didn't get to keep. Didn't work for what I needed

I had installed a similar product on my previous house back in 2007 or so. With a pretty significant gap in my back door on the hinge side, I thought the M-D Building Products 52000 Nail On Bronze Weatherstrip would help insulate the seal and prevent the steady flow of cold air coming in. In the end it did not work.PROS: Quality. Thick, strong bronze seal seemed to be of high quality.CONS:1) No pre-drilled holes for the nails. That meant while trying to fit it into a very exact spot, I had to basically hammer my fingers to get the nails started. I ended up using a punch to make holes through the strip to assist with the process.2) LOUD. The metal makes a loud metallic sound akin to ripping an aluminum can apart every time you opened or closed the door. It was such a terrifying noise that my pets refused to go near the door.3) Thick. Combined with a 1/4" foam insulation strip, the thickness was too much for the door to close. What I thought was a pretty significant gap was unable to compress the mix of the M-D Building Products metal strip and foam insulator. I had to rip it all out because my door wouldn't close.

Good product!Wish it could have been a little heavier duty.

Does not come with the pre-punched holes that it says it should have in the instructions. Using a 1 5/8" drywall screw worked well to both space out and punch the holes. It looks nice and fills the gap perfectly (once bent upwards like directions say) without taking away from the look of our old home.