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.

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. Installing a door handle is a relatively easy diy project. 2020 08 17 rated 5 out of 5 by torak from just what the doctor ordered wanted to hang a small towel rail on a hollow door. 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.

However i would like to use bolt through fixings but i m struggling to find what i want to use. 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. Cross section of door with hollow door fixing inserted. 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.

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

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. A pack of 20 retails at about 1 49 and can be found in pretty much all diy sheds. Watch this step by step video guide from bunnings warehouse and learn how to make sure the handles.