A quick detail then back in garage with its cover on, it’s amazing how dusty it gets in the garage? Walls painted, floor painted and covered in rubber matting but still it gets like the Sahara in there! 
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Nice work Barrie!
Are you coming to Wentworth this evening?
Hi Nick! What’s on? 
Barrie
Peaks and Pennines Social Meet:
Rockingham Arms
8 Main Street
Wentworth S62 7TL
United Kingdom
18:30 - 21:30
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Ah right Nick thanks for heads up but won’t be coming out to play tonight! 
Barrie
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No worries Barrie. Hope to meet you soon, would love to see your 5 up close, looks so good in your pictures 
Cheers
Nick
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Is the roof lined and sealed? I can’t remember seeing a picture showing its ceiling. (but memory is flakey now)
Ventilation is essential to prevent condensation and rust, but a high level through draft really does bring in the sahara!
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Removed my track wheels and tyres, taking away the “Rat Car” look and swapped them out for a set of much nicer Sparco Assetto Gara’s
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Hi Richard! Garage is integral so double boarded and plastered 
door seal along bottom of electric door. TBH, there is a slight draft where the trim around the door frame is a bit out of alignment 
it’s centrally heated too if that makes any difference? Maybe too dry?
Barrie
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The camera never lies Nick TBH it does flatter the car, wish it did the same for me!
Barrie
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It sounds almost ideal!
I guess you’re just so busy in there you’re stirring it up all the time…
But, just a thought, is it a through draft from that frame gap?
My garage is also part of the house, unfortunately it had a yard door at the back with quite a gap at the bottom and stopping that up (we never used it) made a very big difference to warmth, comfort and dust. No longer does it collect dust, unless I’m doing some work in there making the dust. Spider-poo yes, but not dust.
The door into the house is a fire door and has a proper closer that can be nicely tuned to stay open for a useful while but still close properly (unlike the previous closers).
The up-and-over door has tough flappy rubber seals but added as more forgiving angled wipers, some on frame uprights and some on door bottom, and not as shown on their website, and the frame (8x2) is part of the house.
But as usual with these doors nothing is ever quite true and there is always some draft around them, and the rubber is now a couple of decades old and no longer making perfect contact, as visible in the bottom half of the picture. This is slightly above halfway up the left vertical seen from the outside, the tin “draft excluder” (huh!) on the inside of the door is just visible where the rubber has lost spring. I think I need to add some foam behind it as a helper.
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The door closer on the garage to house door makes a good seal with the intumescent strips on the frame, the garage door itself is a sectional that pulls in at ceiling level rather than rolling up. The bottom door seal is fine but the trim across the top of the frame is what lets air in. Some air movement is better than none I reckon 
Barrie
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That appears to be capable of quite a lot of air movement.
Mine is snug tight across the top. No draft there.
I fitted the exterior stop-batten tight to the door after I hung the door. The top position is governed by the inside tracks anchored to the frame and the top-rollers on the door, and they’ve not changed in forty years.
The 8x2 has dried out a bit with time and shrunk back slightly from the black DPM I put in to prevent the in-situ-cast RC beam rotting it later. Lots of 4" nails anchor them together. That shrinkage plus countless closures hammering home before I added the electric opener cracked the plaster. The Celotex insulation was the last addition.
Original dust and cobweb on the roller bracket too! It shows how little cleaning I do. Oops. Never mind.
The important thing is the NC is very happy living in there, feeling warm, dry and secure.
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Actually looks worse than it is the opacity of the PVCu trim across the top makes it looks like a big gap (but it’s not) just the bright sunlight from outside and near blackness inside, highlights it The vertical line seen to the left is where air movements mostly occur. No weatherproofing issue though ? The door is set back behind the reveal and we have a full width canopy across the front of the house (1 metre depth) so never been an issue
Barrie
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Quick job over Lunch , fitted glass wind blocker and hoop inserts
Car could do with a wash but the weather is terrible
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Hoop inserts? tell me more
Barrie
Hi Barrie, you should be able to see them in the second photo, they are made from Aluminium then anodised and have a rubber seal around so they just push-fit from the rear and rest on the ridge between the silver and black hoop. they are designed to reduce noise especially if you are short and have the seat more forward 
I just thought they look good and come with the Glass wind blocker. shown in silver on their website The optimum for your Mazda MX5 MC
hope this helps
Kevin
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12db is a lot…
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