Fitting A Door Handle To A Hollow Door

Use masking tape to secure the door handle kit s template to the door at this spot.

Fitting a door handle to a hollow door.

Mortice latch or tubular door latch showing the latch casing the catch and door handle spindle insert. The bolts machine screws that i m searching for are like a machine screw but with a countersunk raised head to look like a wood screw. The bit with the plugs makes it the perfect inexpensive and easy solution to hanging on hollow doors. Hi i m fitting some new door handles to our interior doors which are hollow.

Cross section of door with hollow door fixing inserted. If your doors have been fitted correctly there should be a lock block where the handles fit ie the door is not hollow where the lock and handles fit. When the door needs to be opened a door handle or sometimes a knob is turned which in turn is attached to the latch via a door bar or door spindle that runs through the latch. The doors may be hollow or egg shell construction but where the latch and handles are there should be a lock block which is a piece of solid wood sometimes chipboard glued to one side of the door to take the ironmongary handles etc.

If you want to fix into a hollow door the plasplugs hollow door fixings are good but they depend on whatever is being fixed to the door having a surface which is flush with the door surface. Repairing loose door handles on hollow doors many modern interior flush doors have a hollow core often consisting of little more than a honeycomb of corrugated cardboard to provide rigidity and a thin plywood skin covered in a vinyl or foil decorative finish. Put your tape measure on the floor in front of your door and measure up 41 inches from the floor since this is the most common placement for door handles. Watch this step by step video guide from bunnings warehouse and learn how to make sure the handles.

A pack of 20 retails at about 1 49 and can be found in pretty much all diy sheds. However i would like to use bolt through fixings but i m struggling to find what i want to use. Installing a door handle is a relatively easy diy project.