Rubber window surround not intact
I just noticed the rubber around some of my 5'ver windows is not meeting. In some spots it's about as wide as your finger. The rubber does not seem to have deteriorated, it just doesn't meet where the...
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Well the rubber seal has 'shrunk' for age and exposure.
Mine have been that way for several years.
I re-positioned first one by pulling/pushing seal around window until gap was closed up tight only to find it had shrunk again a few months later
I have thought about using some black caulking to fill gap but figure rubber seal would just shrink away from it on both ends leaving a glop of black caulking
Windows do not leak because glass is laid onto inner frame over a bead of silicone caulking then rubber seal (really a trim piece) installed.
Mine have been that way for several years.
I re-positioned first one by pulling/pushing seal around window until gap was closed up tight only to find it had shrunk again a few months later
I have thought about using some black caulking to fill gap but figure rubber seal would just shrink away from it on both ends leaving a glop of black caulking
Windows do not leak because glass is laid onto inner frame over a bead of silicone caulking then rubber seal (really a trim piece) installed.
