RicodJour wrote in news:dcdcfb05-3990-4473-
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On Feb 17, 10:45*pm, Picasso wrote:
OK, question time. *I have a house about 40 years old or so, with
hollow core doors, and for whatever reason, they are 78" or were cut
to 78"... I Am replacing with clear pine solid doors, problem is, the
strike plate is at standard 36", meaning to properly center the
doorknob on the style in the center of the middle rail, i would have
to drop the knob to 34" from the floor to keep the knob centered....
or have it above center on that rail and leave it at 36"

Cutting 2" off the top will not leave me a thick enough rail at the
top of the 6 panels, esthetically...

My ideal is *to NOT cut off the top of the door, so tha the top rail
is left the same width as the side styles, and to have the doorknob
centered on the rail at 36" from floor....

Is filling the current stike plate in with wood filler or alternate an
option?? *I am painting the jambs and case white.

If you're painting it, you can get away with murder. Cut pieces of
wood to fill what you need to fill and epoxy them in place. Plane and
sand smooth, then layout and cut the new strike mortise and gain.

R


Router is my tool of choice when I've come across this. Route out the
hole square. Cut square that is thicker than hole depth to fill hole.
Drill small hole in patch piece. Wood glue in hole. Patch in hole and
screw into jamb. Let dry for a day. Remove screw. Router to make patch
piece flush.

Basically what you said. Just that router makes jamb hole and patch piece
a full fill as well as used to flush it all.