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newshound

On 22/04/2019 21:07, wrote:
will conceal where the power drill went out the side of the door when I was mortissing in a new latch barrel.

And drilled the spindle hole in on the bottom line of the latch instead of the centre line.

I thought it would be a simple job to update the door handles, but the new ones are knobs and the old ones are levers. The knobs are too close to the edge of the door, so I have to fit new latches. The longer latches are too long to fit in the stiles without bursting out into the panels, so I have to make completely new latch holes.

The handles are also sprung, and two sprung handles and a latch is too heavy a spring action, so I am manually despringing one or both of the handles in the hope of getting a lighter action.

Now considering that putting in a new central heating system myself might be a touch ambitious ...

Owain

Been there, done that. With "modern" doors it can be a surprisingly
tedious job replacing handles and latches. My long term plan was to
replace all these doors with proper wooden ones, but I have never quite
got round to it.