DIYbanter - View Single Post - Replacing Interior Door Knobs in Old House (odd size!)

David Nebenzahl

On 3/21/2009 5:13 PM spake thus:

Could someone help? We live in a house built in 1902 and have Rim
Locks on all of our doors. We want to replace them, since many of
them don't latch anymore. When we removed one to replace it with a
standard interior door knob, we realized that our doors are too thin!
They are about an inch wide, whereas modern doors are 1 1/4 or 1 1/2
wide. Does anyone know of a place that I can find knobs that would
fit? Or what I'd use as a keyword to search online?

Depending on where you live, there may be a used/vintage building-supply
place that sells salvaged stuff, and maybe even some new reproduction
stuff for old houses. (There's a lot of repro stuff being made these
days.) I'm lucky to have several such places here, in the San Francisco
East Bay area. That would be the best place to look.

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