Six weeks to fix a leaky root cellar door in Ludlow, still not sure it's right

I thought swapping the old wooden door on my root cellar would take a weekend, but the frame had shifted about an inch and a half from frost heave. After three attempts with different thresholds and a lot of shims, I finally got it to seal with a heavy rubber gasket from a farm supply place in Springfield. It took six weeks total because every rain showed me a new gap, and I'm still watching it during this thaw. Anyone else deal with frost heave messing with their cellar or shed doors, and did you find a fix that actually lasted?

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amyh2121d ago

Ugh, frost heave is the absolute worst for this kind of thing! We had the same problem with our shed door in Chester, the frame just twisted over one winter and nothing would line up. I ended up taking the whole frame out and re-setting it on those adjustable metal post bases, then pouring new concrete around them. That was the only thing that actually lasted more than a season for me. The rubber gasket trick helped too, but the real fix was stopping the movement at the base. I also put a heavy duty turnbuckle on the inside corners to keep the frame square during the worst of the thaw. It has held for two winters now, so I'm crossing my fingers it keeps working.