Doors – Air comming in from door side

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I'll try to be the more specific possible but please consider I usually talk French.

I'm not the owner of the place I live, I'm renting it. So something like changing a door is not something I considier that I should change if something goes bad with it. Especially when one of the main prupose of a door is not meet; stopping cold air from coming in. But the owner don't want to change it (waste of time talking with him anyway ; "Costs too much." he'll say – I literally hear him saying it).

So I was wondering how could I fix the fact that yes, my exterior door is closing correctly, but there's a huge and quite considerable amount of air entering by where the metalic piece from my door went into the wall hole.

Where air come from (This is not my door)

Note: It's not my door, it's an example. Mine have a door lock about 2 inches over the handle.

Best Answer

The general fix for air leaking around a door is known in the US as "weatherstripping".

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It comes in several shapes and sizes, but the basic idea is to fill a gap with a compressible foam that will close an irregular gap and keep air out. It's good practice to put it all the way around a door.