Apologies for posting this again but I posted it as part of a previous
post and only got answers to my first part. I'm doing the work in the
morning so hopefully there is someone out there who might be able to
help but then it is friday night!....

I'm replacing the rim lock and putting in a new mortice lock in an
original timber Victorian front door. The door doesnt fit very well but
we need to get new locks on ASAP. I've sorted out the mortice lock
question but need to work out what i am doing with the rim lock.

Currently there is a shabby looking night latch and a larger rebate
around the edge of the latch indiactng a previous larger rim lock of
some description.

I'm planning to install the big fat Yale deadlocking rim lock and I'm
wondering whehter it would be best to replace the existing lock and
work with the mess that's presumably been made of the door over the
years in that area or just cut my losses, go 30cm further up the door
and install it totally from fresh. any pros and cons in terms of door
weakness and considerations because of it's ill fitting??

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Apologies for posting this again but I posted it as part of a previous
post and only got answers to my first part. I'm doing the work in the
morning so hopefully there is someone out there who might be able to
help but then it is friday night!....

I'm replacing the rim lock and putting in a new mortice lock in an
original timber Victorian front door. The door doesnt fit very well but
we need to get new locks on ASAP. I've sorted out the mortice lock
question but need to work out what i am doing with the rim lock.

Currently there is a shabby looking night latch and a larger rebate
around the edge of the latch indiactng a previous larger rim lock of
some description.

I'm planning to install the big fat Yale deadlocking rim lock and I'm
wondering whehter it would be best to replace the existing lock and
work with the mess that's presumably been made of the door over the
years in that area or just cut my losses, go 30cm further up the door
and install it totally from fresh. any pros and cons in terms of door
weakness and considerations because of it's ill fitting??

Rim locks do not greatly affect the strength of a door, unless the hole for
a night latch cylinder has been cut through a joint. It would certainly be
easier working in fresh wood and patching up the old holes later, but,
without seeing the door itself, it is very difficult to say whether you
should use the old cylinder hole or not.

Colin Bignell

wrote:

I'm planning to install the big fat Yale deadlocking rim lock and I'm
wondering whehter it would be best to replace the existing lock and
work with the mess that's presumably been made of the door over the
years in that area or just cut my losses, go 30cm further up the door
and install it totally from fresh. any pros and cons in terms of door
weakness and considerations because of it's ill fitting??

Depends. Take the existing lock off and have a look. Also, do you intend
to keep the door? If you intend to replace sometime soon a bodge to fill
the old hole would be OK.


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Dave
The Medway Handyman
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