How To Make A Door Lock Hole Bigger

Instead of paying big bucks for a new door wi.

How to make a door lock hole bigger.

Set the pilot bit on the intersecting centerlines and bore clean. Cut two pieces of scrap plywood several inches larger than the diameter of the hole. Why won t that new doorknob fit in your old door. Cut two scraps of 1 2 or thicker plywood making them several inches larger than the hole.

Because there s a new larger standard size for doorknobs. Mark the centerline of the existing hole on the edge of the door. Then mark centerlines on the plywood block. You need two different hole saws to create the perfectly round holes in the face of the door and the smaller hole in the edge of the door.

Enlarging the lockset hole in a door can be difficult since there s nothing to guide the pilot bit. The hole diameters are 2 and 1 8 inch and 1 inch respectively. Lay the block on the door and align the two sets of center marks. Have a door out of alignment due to settling.

Jam a wood plug into the existing hole haha show how to drill a hole. To solve this problem. This is a common problem when drilling a larger hole in a door for a new deadbolt or lockset. Need to drill a new hole really close to the original one.

The last thing you want to use is a jigsaw. The stripped hole repair kit from king s original ha. All you need is an idea how to drill a hole in the door for new hardware on a old door. When enlarging a lockset hole mark the centerlines of the old hole on the door.