On 22 Aug 2006 14:10:38 -0700, "robgraham"
wrote:

|
|Christian McArdle wrote:
| You can get cylinders for Euro type locks which have key on one side and
| a knob on the other :
|
| http://www.locksonline.co.uk/acatalo...Cylinders.html
|
| That seems a possible solution too, thanks.
|
| They are useful if you have a Euro lock type door, typically a uPVC or
| aluminium type. Mortice and latch type locks are normally fitted to wooden
| doors.
|
| Christian.
|
|I'm sorry but that's a load of C****.
|
|Euro locks as recommended are absolutley the solution to this problem
|and it astonished me that this thread got to something like 20 posts
|long before someone made the most sensible and obvious solution. In
|fact shame on the lot of you as DIY'ers that you all came up with such
|usefless suggestions.
|
|There is absolutely no reason at all why they cannot be fitted to
|wooden doors - I've fitted one to a modern wooden door and one to an
|old wooden door without any thoughts of their being difficulties. Euro
|locks are a dead lock operated externally with a Yale type key and
|internally with just a turn knob. Further more they are cheap - ?7
|out of Screwfix.

Except that they are designed to work more complex locking mechanisms with
several bolts and such like linked to the lock, mine has about seven.

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