"JimM" wrote in message


Michael, which measurement is the width of the door plus handles ? Is it a
problem if the lock sticks out past the handles, apart from looking untidy ?

Locksmith charged £60, this was minimum charge (he let me off the VAT for
cash) and he was there for about 20 mins (Surrey)
This was actually the cheapest I was quoted but it was the 8th guy I rang
up, 6 couldn't get out to me and 1 said he could then rang up an hour later
after changing his mind !

My front door is 45 mm thick the handles are about 11 mm where they
house the lock so thats about 67 and there is a slight prominence to the
keyholes -that makes it 70mm. There was a door on a cottage in Wales a
friend had that stuck about an inch or more into the room. I'm surprised
she never complained when they fitted the new door as the house was very
small.

I wonder if they told her it was a hangar for wet coats and umbrellas
rather than drive all the way to civilization for a replacement.

It worked OK though. You drop the cartridge by unscrewing the bolt in
the faceplate of the lock. Its a phillips that runs into the bottom of
the barrel. Hope I haven't lost you there. They are dead easy to work on
once you have seen one in pieces. It's just that one bloody set that put
me off them. I don't know what make they were.

Here is how to take your door off if the worst ever comes to the worst
again:

Tap the pins out of the hinges with a 4" nail. If they are cheapo hinges
then you might have to get thin masonry nails or similar. Keep one handy
there's a good boy.

Put a support under the door and a couple of thin wedges in the hinge
side to force the door away from them.

Get someone to tap the door in to you from the outside. Do this gently
to stop the door getting damaged by the halves of the hinges left in the
door.

Alternatively, bend the hinges out of the way. It might be the devil of
a job to put them back anyway, so get a set of new ones.

I don't know how you'd get on with one of those fancy modern ones. Mine
are drop fit types so I'd have to grind mine away. And even then it has
bolts all over it like an hedgehog, so the locksmith would be busy.


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