Fitting A Door Handle To A Hollow Door

Repairing loose door handles on hollow doors many modern interior flush doors have a hollow core often consisting of little more than a honeycomb of corrugated cardboard to provide rigidity and a thin plywood skin covered in a vinyl or foil decorative finish.

Fitting a door handle to a hollow door. Cross section of door with hollow door fixing inserted. Watch this step by step video guide from bunnings warehouse and learn how to make sure the handles. Hi i m fitting some new door handles to our interior doors which are hollow. A pack of 20 retails at about 1 49 and can be found in pretty much all diy sheds.

The doors may be hollow or egg shell construction but where the latch and handles are there should be a lock block which is a piece of solid wood sometimes chipboard glued to one side of the door to take the ironmongary handles etc. The bit with the plugs makes it the perfect inexpensive and easy solution to hanging on hollow doors. When the door needs to be opened a door handle or sometimes a knob is turned which in turn is attached to the latch via a door bar or door spindle that runs through the latch. 2020 08 17 rated 5 out of 5 by torak from just what the doctor ordered wanted to hang a small towel rail on a hollow door.

Mortice latch or tubular door latch showing the latch casing the catch and door handle spindle insert. However i would like to use bolt through fixings but i m struggling to find what i want to use. Installing a door handle is a relatively easy diy project. If you want to fix into a hollow door the plasplugs hollow door fixings are good but they depend on whatever is being fixed to the door having a surface which is flush with the door surface.

If your doors have been fitted correctly there should be a lock block where the handles fit ie the door is not hollow where the lock and handles fit. They also come supplied with correct sized drill bit to drill the correct size hole in the door to push the fixing in to so the surface of the plug is level with the surface of the door. The bolts machine screws that i m searching for are like a machine screw but with a countersunk raised head to look like a wood screw.