Every door is a decision: insulate or hemorrhage.

Seal crews arrive with calibrated thermal cameras and blower-door rigs. We find every gap where conditioned air bleeds through your building envelope — and we seal it, permanently.

See the Thermal Proof
31%
Avg. HVAC load reduction
$1,840
Saved per door / year
< 4 hrs
Per-door install time

01 — The Problem

The leak you can't see
is the one costing you most.

Air infiltration through door frames and thresholds accounts for up to 40% of uncontrolled energy loss in commercial buildings. It's invisible to the naked eye — but not to our cameras.

Thermal imaging scan showing air infiltration in orange and red around a commercial door frame, with blue and purple cool zones

Δ38.4°F — Door Frame Infiltration

Diagnostic Sample — 8-Story Office, Chicago IL

Lobby Entry (Double)
$610 / yr
Loading Dock Door
$1,420 / yr
Stairwell Exit
$305 / yr
Parking Level Entry
$928 / yr

Annual total — unsealed

$3,263

per building entry cluster

After Seal

$390

residual loss

0.35

ACH natural

Avg. infiltration rate, unsealed commercial door

40%

of envelope loss

Attributed to door frames and thresholds

15%

YoY utility climb

Reported by ops directors with aging door seals

< 18 mo

payback

Typical ROI period after full-building seal program

02 — The Audit Process

Three hours of diagnostic work.
Decades of leakage made visible.

Technician holding a thermal imaging camera pointed at a commercial building door frame in a warehouse
01

Thermal Camera Survey

A Seal technician walks every exterior door with a calibrated FLIR T530 thermal camera. Temperature differentials of ≥ 3°F flag infiltration zones. Every frame, threshold, astragal gap, and hinge-side clearance is logged.

FLIR T530 · ±2°C accuracy · Full-frame radiometric capture
Building maintenance professional using a smoke pencil to trace airflow around a commercial door threshold
02

Blower Door Pressurization Test

We mount a calibrated blower-door fan in the primary building entry and depressurize to −50 Pa. Smoke pencils trace infiltration paths at each door while a data logger records CFM50 readings — giving you a precise air-change-per-hour baseline.

Minneapolis BlowerDoor · ASTM E779 protocol · Certified report included
Facility manager reviewing a detailed thermal diagnostic report on a tablet showing door energy loss data
03

Diagnostic Report & Prioritization

Within 48 hours you receive a door-by-door PDF report: thermal images annotated with temperature readings, CFM loss per door, annual dollar cost, and a prioritized remediation schedule ranked by ROI.

PDF + CSV export · Prioritized by cost-per-door · Shareable with ownership

03 — Material Selection

Every gap has a solution.
Every solution is load-bearing.

Close-up cross-section view of EPDM rubber compression seal fitted into aluminum door frame kerf cut

Material 01

Compression Seals

EPDM rubber · 60–90 Shore A · -40°F to +250°F

Kerf-mounted perimeter seals that compress under door contact pressure. Zero air gap at full closure. Rated for 500,000+ cycles — outlasts the door hardware.

Cross-Section — Assembly Layers
1Aluminum carrier
2EPDM bulb seal
3Kerf-mount fin
Mortised automatic door bottom mechanism installed in commercial door showing neoprene wiper in deployed position

Material 02

Automatic Door Bottoms

Mortised or surface-mount · Drop range: 5/8″ · Neoprene wiper

A spring-loaded aluminum bar with a neoprene wiper drops automatically as the door closes, sealing the threshold gap without any manual adjustment. Eliminates the single largest infiltration point on most commercial doors.

Cross-Section — Assembly Layers
1Aluminum housing
2Stainless actuator pin
3Neoprene wiper blade
Double commercial door with astragal seal visible at meeting stile, showing overlap and seal contact detail

Material 03

Astragals & Meeting Stile Seals

Overlapping T-astragal · 1-3/4″ door thickness · Fire-rated options

For double-door openings, the meeting stile gap is the second-largest infiltration path. Flush-bolt astragals with integrated bulb seals close this gap across the full door height, with no degradation under repeated traffic.

Cross-Section — Assembly Layers
1T-astragal extrusion
2Integrated bulb seal
3Flush bolt engagement
Intumescent strip installed in fire door edge showing aluminum retainer and graphite compound layers

Material 04

Intumescent Strips

Graphite-based · Expands 10× at 392°F · UL-listed

Installed in door edge rebates, these graphite-impregnated strips provide both draft sealing under normal conditions and fire-barrier expansion at high temperature — critical for stairwell doors and fire-rated assemblies.

Cross-Section — Assembly Layers
1Aluminum retainer
2Graphite intumescent
3Smoke-seal fin

05 — The Proof

Same door. Same building.
Different thermal signature.

BeforeLobby entry — unsealed
Thermal scan before weatherproofing showing bright orange and red heat loss zones around commercial door frame edges and threshold

Δ38.4°F · 9,200 BTU/hr loss

AfterSame door — 72 hours post-install
Thermal scan after Seal weatherproofing showing uniform blue and purple temperature distribution around commercial door frame with no heat loss

Δ2.1°F · 510 BTU/hr residual

94.5% reduction

in BTU/hr infiltration loss — same door, same building

$1,840

Avg. savings / door / yr

18 mo

Avg. payback period

Completed Projects — Verified Savings

14-Story Office Tower

Minneapolis, MN

28 doors
Annual savings$51,520
Payback11 months
HVAC reduction34%

Distribution Warehouse

Columbus, OH

62 doors
Annual savings$114,080
Payback8 months
HVAC reduction41%

Mixed-Use Retail Center

Denver, CO

19 doors
Annual savings$34,960
Payback14 months
HVAC reduction29%
Free Resource

Per-Door Savings Calculator

Enter your building's door count, local energy rate, and operating hours. Get a precise annual BTU-loss figure and projected payback period — before we've even visited your site.

Ready to stop the bleed?

Your building's thermal report
is one audit away.

We schedule within 5 business days. You receive a door-by-door diagnostic report within 48 hours of the site visit. No obligation to proceed — but the numbers tend to speak for themselves.