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Lobster wrote:
A bit of a ball-ache, this - front door is secured by a mortice
latch/lock but is ever-so-slightly out of position, so that the latch
will only engage if you either slam the door, or close it fully and
gently, and apply a sudden 'shove' to get the latch to click into place
(something that SWMBO's not strong enough to do). In other words, the
striker plate needs moving no more than 1 mm outwards from the frame.

There's no way I'd able to fill and redrill the screwholes in the frame
effectively (the old and new would overlap). Suggestions, please?

Work out where the bolt is fouling on the striker plate, and relieve the
striker plate with a file.

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