Best Draught Excluder 2026: Does It Fit Your Door?

A strip seals a gap; this does not seal anything, and that is exactly why it is first. A silicone strip needs the bottom of the door to be flat, level and within about six millimetres of the floor, which rules out most carpet, every warped door in a Victorian house, and every floor that has been sanded twice. A filled cushion lies across the gap instead, held down by its own weight, and the listing states that weight: 998 grams. So it works on floors where the mechanical answer does not, and it is the only product on this page that can say that.

The measurements are the most coherent in the comparison, which is a low bar that this listing clears comfortably. It is 91.4 centimetres long, 12.7 centimetres deep and 17.8 centimetres tall, and the title calls it a 36 inch door stopper. Thirty-six inches is 91.44 centimetres, so the number in the title and the number in the dimensions field describe the same object, at the width of the standard British internal door. In a category where one product claims 10 metres and lists one metre, agreement between two fields is a feature.

The evidence backs it up: 5,352 ratings at 4.7 stars, with 79 per cent five-star and 1 per cent one-star, the cleanest distribution of the ten. It costs £15.99, which is the most expensive thing here, and the price buys the form rather than the quality — a textile product with a filling, a decorative shape and hanging loops to keep it attached to the door handle, against three metres of self-adhesive foam for £3.79. If the gap under your door is even and small, the Vellure strip at number two is the cheaper and tidier answer. If it is not, this is the only product here that will work anyway.

Twenty-four thousand one hundred and seventy-three ratings at 4.4 stars, with 66 per cent five-star and 5 per cent one-star, is the largest body of evidence behind any product I have covered on this site. It is also an unusually honest set of numbers for the category, because a draught excluder with twenty-four thousand reviews has been fitted to twenty-four thousand doors, and the faults that matter in this product — adhesive failing, the strip catching on the door, a gap that turns out to be deeper than six millimetres — are exactly the faults that would show up.

The dimensions are the reason it earns second place rather than third. The field reads one hundred centimetres long, five centimetres wide and zero point six centimetres thick, which is a complete description in one line: long enough for the standard door, wide enough to cover the hinge-side gap on a frame, and six millimetres thick at the base. That last number is the one a buyer needs and the one the category withholds: a strip seals whatever depth its thickness covers, so a six-millimetre base is a six-millimetre gap, and nothing on this page says so as plainly.

It is also the only listing here that mentions energy. The title calls it a door seal for energy saving and adds that it keeps out the cold, and it never quantifies either claim, which is the honest way to make it: a draught excluder saves whatever the gap was wasting, and that depends entirely on the door. What it is not designed for is a carpet or an uneven floor, and the reviews will tell you that faster than I can. Silicone, one hundred centimetres, six millimetres, £12.90.

Nine hundred and fourteen millimetres is not an arbitrary number. It is ninety-one point four centimetres, which is thirty-six inches, which is three feet: the width of a standard British internal door and the reason a British brand would build a seal to that length rather than to a round metre. STORMGUARD makes nothing but door and window seals, the listing states a one-year warranty against defects in material and workmanship, and it tells you what is in the box — one seal and its fixings. In a comparison where two products claim a two pack and count one, that is unusually clear.

The form is the other reason it belongs this high. A brush seal tolerates an uneven floor in a way that a six-millimetre silicone strip cannot: the bristles bend over a threshold, a ridge or a carpet edge rather than jamming against it. The trade is that a brush is a weaker barrier than a solid strip — air passes through bristles — and the twenty-five millimetres of thickness stated in the dimensions field describe the housing rather than a sealed edge. For a door that sticks, drops or crosses a change of floor, that is the right compromise.

The specification does have one entry that repeats itself: the dimensions field gives ninety-one point four centimetres for the length and ninety-one point four centimetres for the width, so the width field is the length again. Somebody filled in the same number twice, which matters less here than in the products that contradict their own headline, and the one figure a buyer needs — the length — is right in both the title and the table. Seven hundred and fifty-seven ratings at 4.4 stars is four times the sample of the other cushion here and a fraction of the Vellure's, which is what a specialist brand looks like next to a marketplace bestseller.

Two fields on this listing disagree with the title, and both of them matter to a buyer standing in a hallway with a tape measure. The title says two pack. The item count field says one. Somewhere between those two statements is the answer to whether you receive one strip or two, and the page does not resolve it, which is the kind of ambiguity that turns into a return.

The length is the second disagreement, and it is subtler. The strip is 99.1 centimetres long and 5.1 centimetres wide. Ninety-one point four centimetres is three feet, the standard width of a British internal door, and that is what the STORMGUARD at number three is built to. Ninety-nine point one centimetres is thirty-nine inches, which is a standard door in the United States and a very common length for imported seals. Neither listing says which door it had in mind, so the buyer is left to guess whether the extra eight centimetres are a spare margin or a different standard — and on a door with a frame and a hinge, an eight centimetre overhang is visible.

What the listing does get right is the material and the width. Silicone is the right choice for a strip that is compressed every time the door closes, because it returns to shape where foam takes a set, and 5.1 centimetres is wide enough to cover a frame edge as well as the base of the door. With 5,326 ratings at 4.3 stars and 5 per cent one-star, the evidence is deep, and at £7.99 it is cheaper than the Vellure for a very similar product. Measure your door before ordering, and read the item count before assuming you have a spare.

Three metres times two seals, total six metres. That is what the title says, the dimensions field confirms six metres, and the price is £3.79. In a category where one listing claims ten metres and records one, and another says two pack and counts one, a product that explains its own arithmetic and then agrees with itself is the reason this one sits in the top half at the lowest price in the comparison.

The material is the second thing it gets right. The field reads ethylene propylene diene monomer rubber, which is EPDM, the synthetic rubber used for weather seals on buildings and cars because it survives ultraviolet light and temperature cycling without perishing. The other foam tapes here say rubber foam, which could be anything. For a strip stuck to a door that faces a hallway, the difference shows up in year three, and it is the kind of detail no buyer can check at the point of sale.

The form is type D: a hollow letter-D profile that compresses between the door and the frame and takes up small gaps around the whole perimeter, rather than only the base. That makes it the window and frame product in this comparison, and the item dimensions, six metres by two centimetres, describe it honestly. What it is not is a seal for a deep gap under a door: type D foam closes a few millimetres, and the reviews will tell you the same. With 2,914 ratings at 4.4 stars and 2 per cent one-star, it is the best-reviewed cheap product here, and the cheapest.

Read this listing's title and you have everything a buyer needs: a section of six millimetres wide by three thick, which is the size of the gap it closes; two rolls, twenty metres in total, which is the length; and the job, gap sealing, spelled out. No other product in this comparison gives the section in millimetres and the total length in metres in the same sentence. It is the clearest product description on the page, and it costs £6.99.

Then the specification table undoes it. The dimensions field reads twenty-five millimetres long and twenty-five millimetres wide, which describes neither the six by three section nor the twenty metres of tape, and the item count field says one against the two rolls the title promises. This is the mirror image of the problem at number ten, where the title claimed ten metres and the field one: here the field is simply empty of meaning, and the honest information is in the marketing copy where a buyer would not think to look.

What it is good for is a narrow, straight gap: a door frame, a window reveal, a skirting board. Three millimetres of thickness is thin, so it will not close a substantial gap under a door, and six millimetres of width will not survive much friction against a closing edge. Rubber foam takes a set under compression, which is why silicone is the better material for anything that gets squeezed daily. But at £6.99 for twenty metres — enough for several doors and a window — with 1,324 ratings at 4.4 stars and 3 per cent one-star, it is the cheapest way to deal with the small gaps that whistle.

Six metres of type D foam for £3.99, and the dimensions field agrees with the title: six metres long, two centimetres wide. After two listings on this page that contradict their own length, agreement is worth stating plainly, and the ratings agree too — 2,354 at 4.4 stars with 4 per cent one-star.

The title is where this listing overreaches. It promises cold draught, anti-collision, soundproofing, waterproofing and dust, five jobs attached to a foam profile that is designed to compress in a gap. Two of those are credible: a closed-cell rubber foam stops a draught and it stops dust, and it will not be damaged by a wet door frame. Anti-collision is a way of saying it cushions a door that slams, which is true. Soundproofing is the one that does not belong: acoustic sealing needs mass and continuity, and a two-centimetre foam strip in a gap will change the tone of a draught whistle rather than the transmission of sound through a door. Every seller here does something similar, and the claim usually survives because it cannot be tested without instruments.

What it is good for is the same as the EPDM tape at number five and the GUKOY at number six: frames, reveals and the edges of doors, in narrow gaps. Two centimetres of width and the type D profile mean it compresses around a perimeter rather than blocking a base gap. Three similar products at £3.79, £3.99 and £6.99 in one comparison is itself the useful information: the cheapest three here are the same product in different lengths, and the length per pound is the only real difference.

This is the same product idea as the Marwood at number one, at £6.31 less, and the comparison between the two is the most useful thing on this page. Both are fabric sleeves with a heavy filling, both are ninety-one centimetres long, both hang from the door handle, and both work on floors where a strip cannot. The Hongbaite adds a detail the other does not need: it is eight centimetres tall as well as eight deep, and it weighs 1.02 kilograms, slightly more than the Marwood's 998 grams, so the barrier is at least as substantial.

What separates them is the evidence. Five thousand three hundred and fifty-two ratings against one hundred and eight, on the same kind of product, at a £6.31 difference in price. A hundred and eight ratings at 4.5 stars is not bad — 71 per cent five-star and 3 per cent one-star — but it is the thinnest sample in the top half of this comparison by a factor of ten, and the faults that matter in a cushion are the faults that appear in year two: the filling migrating to one end, the stitching opening, the fabric fraying where it drags on the carpet. Fifty times more buyers have reported on those for the Marwood.

The specification is otherwise clean. The dimensions are ninety-one by eight by eight centimetres, which is a coherent description, and the colour field is the only thing in the table that misbehaves: it reads grey one pack, so the pack size has been typed into the colour. On its own that is nothing; as the fourth listing here to put something in the wrong field, it is the pattern this whole page describes. If you want a cushion and £15.99 is too much, this is the sensible second choice.

Fifteen point two four metres is fifty feet exactly, which is a roll of foam cut to an imperial length and sold on a British site, and it is long enough to do a whole flat. The width in the same field arrives as zero point zero one metres, which is one centimetre expressed in a unit that makes it look like a measurement of tolerance rather than a product. Both numbers are true, and neither reads like something a person would write about an object they could hold.

The warranty field is the detail that stays with you. It reads, heart emoji included, lifetime warranty — on a roll of foam whose entire function is to be compressed until it stops springing back, at which point it is replaced. The STORMGUARD at number three states a one-year defects warranty in the same field and means it. Between those two sentences is the difference between a brand and a listing.

The material is the strongest thing here: CR foam and neoprene, which is chloroprene rubber, an oil- and weather-resistant material genuinely used for seals, followed by the words eco-friendly and non-toxic, which are claims rather than measurements and cannot be checked. The highlight promises draughts, noise, light and dust, and at one centimetre of thickness the acoustic claim is the same overreach as the Bynsaer's at number seven. With 2,574 ratings at 4.3 stars and 5 per cent two-star — the highest two-star share here — it is a reasonable roll of tape at a fair price, sold with more decoration than it needs.