Not envying you door replacement in November. Don't know if it's going to be cold, snow, or both this year. :(
The woodpeckers (five varieties) went through two stack seed cakes that lasted 2.5 weeks last time in 3.5 DAYS. Apparently they are stashing our seeds like mad. I broke down and got a Wild Birds membership. WB gave me two suet cakes and a sack of seed as a gift. But the raccoons stole the last suet cage, so will have to remedy that.
Or give them to my sister, who lives in town. No raccoons.
I have the back door problem, slightly different. The sealing screen door blocks entry, but even with new weather stripping, the steel door leaves a huge crack. My winter solution is strips of Amazon mailers slid into the crack. I don't use the back door in winter because the step up and flat short deck past the attached shed to the back door is at entry height. So the moment there's snow? Getting out is a mess. I recommend the 1" plus Amazon mailer strips, put the short way and left doubled. It forms a much tighter seal.
Seed & Weather Stripping
The woodpeckers (five varieties) went through two stack seed cakes that lasted 2.5 weeks last time in 3.5 DAYS. Apparently they are stashing our seeds like mad. I broke down and got a Wild Birds membership. WB gave me two suet cakes and a sack of seed as a gift. But the raccoons stole the last suet cage, so will have to remedy that.
Or give them to my sister, who lives in town. No raccoons.
I have the back door problem, slightly different. The sealing screen door blocks entry, but even with new weather stripping, the steel door leaves a huge crack. My winter solution is strips of Amazon mailers slid into the crack. I don't use the back door in winter because the step up and flat short deck past the attached shed to the back door is at entry height. So the moment there's snow? Getting out is a mess. I recommend the 1" plus Amazon mailer strips, put the short way and left doubled. It forms a much tighter seal.