After a heavy rain or a big snow melt, do you find more water on the floor in your garage than you'd like? Honestly, if everything is in good condition and has been constructed properly, your garage should stay as dry as it does any other day during even the worst weather. Below, you'll find a few reasons that the water may be making its way into your garage and how to stop it.

Check the Weather Stripping

When you close your garage door, the weather stripping at the base of the door is supposed to stop water and air from flowing in under the door. If the weather stripping gets damaged or has aged too much, it will not stop the water, and you'll find water in the garage where you don't want it.

Open your garage door about halfway. Get a bucket of soapy water and a sponge and clean the weather stripping. As you clean, look for signs of damage — any rips, chunks that are missing, areas that have flattened out, and won't bounce back or if the weather stripping doesn't extend to both ends of the garage door.

If you find damage, you will need to replace the weather stripping. If you're good with DIY projects, this is one that you can probably handle with very few problems. You'll just need to remove the old, clean the area where the new stripping will go and attach the new stripping.

Tip: If you aren't good with DIY, let a professional garage door repair technician take care of it for you. If you cut the stripping too short, if you don't attach it securely, or if you just put it on wrong, you'll have to remove it and start all over again or deal with the water continuing to flow into the garage.

Install an Exterior Rubber Threshold

Another form of defense is to install an exterior rubber threshold. This is a long rubber strip that extends across the opening of the garage door. When you drive over it, it smashes down but bounces right back up once you're past.

This rubber threshold will prevent most of the water from even coming into contact with the base of the garage door, so it's another line of defense to work with the weather stripping.

Your garage door should be keeping the water out. If it's not, contact your local garage door repair technician. He or she will find the cause of the problem and help you figure out how to resolve it.