Door Furniture Direct Help Customers Fix Loose Door Handles on Hollow Doors

April 4, 2013 - PRLog -- One of the biggest and best online retailers for door handles and other door furniture products, Door Furniture Direct, has published an insightful how-to guide, available via their website, to help customers to repair loose door handles on hollow doors.

The recently published article, entitled ‘Repairing Loose Door Handles on Hollow Doors’, explains how many modern interior flush doors in homes throughout the UK have hollow cores, which consist of little more than a honeycomb of corrugated cardboard, covered by a thin plywood face covered with a vinyl or foil decorative finish, but the latch stile of the door, or the edge which swings, usually contains a ‘lock block’. This is a solid block of wood at the edge of the door which allow for the mounting of door handles, locks and latches. These lock blocks can be quite small, and when doors are installed the wrong way round, with the hinge side out, there may be no lock block at all in which to fix a handle.

When handles are not applied to the lock block or the fixture becomes loose, the door handle in turn may become loose. If this problem is not addressed, unnecessarystrain can be placed on the lock or latch, which could lead to catastrophic damage to these items and to the door face. Sometimes handles have their fixings in the same location where the lock or latch has been fitted into the lock block, which is often the case with round rose interior door handles. Here, timber for the fixing screws can be very thin which means a poor fixing for screws to bite. A variety of solutions are possible, including the application of match sticks, fillers and plugs, while the best solution is often to install a bolt through fixing. This fixing is used to transmit pulling force through the handle onto the opposite side and provide a strong and secure fixing through the door.

The Door Furniture Direct article provides readers with a number of solutions to the problems they may encounter with loose door handles on hollow doors, and the article can be read right here.

For more information and the chance to purchase high quality door handles and much more, head to the Door Furniture Direct website today.

http://www.doorfurnituredirect.co.uk/scpro/bernards/help/repairing_loose_door_handles.htm