I'm working on a doorway, in a basement stairwell. The exterior door is fine. But the interior door, down the stairs, which separates the basement from the stairwell, is leaking heat out on 3 sides. I installed one of those gaskets on the bottom of the door which solved most of the problem of cold air leaking in under that door. I say 'most' because there's still an issue at both corners, which installing weatherstripping or moulding should solve. I also cut out the bottom of the doorframes, on the outside of the door, that the door bumps into, because they were rotten, and replaced them with fresh lumber. Then I used wood filler to repair the door and fill in some gaps in the frame. But there are still gaps on 3 sides when the door is closed. Here's a drawing: [img]https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/801x449/door_5c068e2e1a65689c1cc07a769ecfc8d2ad3faaf1.png[/img] Looking at it from this viewpoint, the door swings in, away from you. Theoretically, I can install moulding on the outside doorframes shown by the green arrows. Obviously not on the inside because then the door wouldn't open. Installing moulding would be perfect on the side where the hinges are. It would totally block cold air and bugs from getting in on that side. And it wouldn't ever fall off like weatherstripping does. But it would look weird if there's no moulding at the top and on the side where the doorknob is. So to totally solve the problem, and make everything symmetrical, I would install the same type of moulding on the doorframe at the top and also where where the door swings closed. I want to know if I should do it this way, or would that be a mistake? Should I just install weatherstripping?

So i recently had a contractor come and install a storm door (36x80 andersen 2500 series) and a front door (feather rivers 36x80 (37.5 x 81.625) the rough opening of front entry is 40 x 83. The reason we replaced both doors is because of the draft that was coming in due to our old front door. and now we have a 2” gap at the bottom of our storm door thats letting leaves in (located in suburban chicago). we are worried that snow will get in between the storm door and main door once the winter hits. we are wondering what the best options would be to fix this problem. the contractor states he cannot lower the storm door anymore due to the lack of space needed for framing around the storm door and that it will interfere with the strength of the framing if we lower it anymore. his suggestion was to get a door sweep [img]https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/ba28be0d_c485_4994_812a_260a4e206d0f_88cd238df727fdf05eb53b194ce05309059f86ca.jpeg[/img] [img]https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.doityourselft.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/de318692_9766_49c2_b5f6_cae7d1ffaf08_77331b56049b7da347d494db5651d566a0e6e5a7.jpeg[/img]