Fitting A Door Handle To A Hollow Door

Installing a door handle is a relatively easy home project that you can do with a pre made kit.

Fitting a door handle to a hollow door.

Hi i m fitting some new door handles to our interior doors which are hollow. Watch this step by step video guide from bunnings warehouse and learn how to make sure the handles. 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. Installing a door handle is a relatively easy diy project.

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. 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. They also come supplied with correct sized drill bit to drill the correct size hole in the door to push the fixing in to so the surface of the plug is level with the surface of the door.

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

The bit with the plugs makes it the perfect inexpensive and easy solution to hanging on hollow doors. 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. Cross section of door with hollow door fixing inserted.