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Help with oddball size door handles
Replacing the interior door handles on a house that was built in the mid 60s'. Normally I would just get some new ones at the local hardware store and replace as needed. Unfortunately the existing handles are smaller than the normal handles available today (at least the interior part is). That makes the hole in the door too small also. So my options are:
1. Find handles that fit
2. Replace the doors with "standard" holes
3. Make the holes in the door big enough to fit the larger handles that are readily available.
Option 1 is most appealing to me because it requires the least amount of work. Below are some pictures that help the explanation:
On the first two you can see where the screw posts from the old handle line up with a new handle. They are narrower.
The next three are all of the original handle and just to see if anyone may be able to identify the manufacturer.
1. Find handles that fit
2. Replace the doors with "standard" holes
3. Make the holes in the door big enough to fit the larger handles that are readily available.
Option 1 is most appealing to me because it requires the least amount of work. Below are some pictures that help the explanation:
On the first two you can see where the screw posts from the old handle line up with a new handle. They are narrower.
The next three are all of the original handle and just to see if anyone may be able to identify the manufacturer.
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." - Red Green
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I'd replace the existing with new slabs or prehung units.
:Griz
just use a hole saw, right? :rotflmao
...there is also "butcher plates" that can be used...
Of course ....one could just break down and buy a new slab.....
Never had an issue with me before either.....it's weird. Some are in bad shape though and need to be replaced.
When I saw the problem, hired a lock smith to do it. He had a special jig just to do this.
It is all but impossible to increase a hole by an eight of an inch or so (on center) without
a guide and matched hole saw. Specially in a steel clad door.
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
I can do this on a door, on a boat, it's a hole saw trade secret I'm not going to give away.
But I have hole saws.
H depot has a plastic one with a 2 1/8 hole saw and
1 inch hole saw. Get one of those and re drill both
Holes.
Good do-it-yourselfer advice and the way to go if you have wood doors and a couple good clamps that won't move.
Another hole saw story if steel clad doors.
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
I've done it many times with one of the kits......easy......just go slow
Standard 2-3/8 backset 2-1/8 bore.
Any blister pack lock will work.
Thanks for the helpful (and the funny) suggestions. Just wish I could figure out a way to use the handy mans secret weapon. (See sig for reference)
Yo've got 40 year old Interior Doors. Flush Slabs, probably 50 coats of paint on them and they look like Happy Days style.
6 Panels and upgrade.
Unless this is a Rental.
Your Wife will love you long time...:grin
Amen... I go through 5 or 10 a year in rentals.
Me too, I've done so many in the last 15 yrs. I can hang one & install hardware pretty quick.