How to put a lock on a door
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Do not panic if you bought an interior door without a lock. For a real man, such a problem should not seem too complicated. If you decide to do everything yourself, then you have come to the right place. In this article, we will tell you how to properly insert a lock into a door with your own hands and step by step we will understand the process.
Preparatory stage
First of all, you need to change the width of the vertical bar and, accordingly, decide what kind of lock you want to insert into your brand new door. In order to understand how to insert a lock into an interior door, you need to remember one important condition: the thickness of the bar you measured should be more than 40-45 mm, otherwise it makes no sense to do anything with this door.
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There are several types of locks for interior doors: with and without a handle. The first option assumes that one lock must be installed first, and then handles - from the inside and outside. In addition to the type with handles, there are also locks with latches. Here you have to try: you need not only the skills of a professional in installing locks, but also his special tools.
To understand how to insert a lock into an interior door, we suggest looking at how the master copes with the insert in the next video.
Tools
To carefully insert the lock into the interior door yourself, without damaging or scratching the surface itself, you need to have the right tools with you. A drill will help you drill, and you can also grab a screwdriver. They are needed to make a hole in the door. In addition, you will need nozzles that will help make rounded holes.
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They are great for creating a hole in a tree. You also need to have a good command of a hammer, with its support it becomes much easier to grind a hole (including fit a lock into it). For accurate measurements, you will need a tape measure, ruler or centimeter. In order to mark the necessary lines, features and points on the very plane of the tree, you can use an ordinary pencil. And with a screwdriver it will be necessary to install the lock, fixing it.
That's all the tools you need to understand how to properly insert a lock into an interior door.
Locate the castle
Before installing a closing device, you need to understand where it should be on the plane. A simple trick will help you with this. In order to choose an extremely comfortable location, you need to stand in front of the door and present the handle, pull it. It is this height that will be comfortable.
If the family has children or plans to have them, then fixing the device is slightly lower than usual - so the child will not feel inconvenience when opening the door. A certain level can be designated by one of the available means.
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The first experience of the stage, which tells how to insert a lock into an interior door on your own, is over.
Correct surface marking
In order to imagine how to insert a lock into a door yourself, it is not enough to know only the location of the mechanism. You need correct labeling.
If the choice of the correct crown for the drill remained a mystery, then you can use their special type - they are designed for door locks. They can be found in a set of several pieces, where the size of the diameter will be slightly different.
When all the necessary marks are made, you can pick up a drill. There is one little secret here that allows you to make the hole the smoothest and most even in appearance: you need to drill not only from the input side, but from both. First, one part is drilled to the middle, and then the other. This is how the hole is made, and we proceed to the next step, allowing us to learn how to insert the lock into the interior door ourselves.
Features of metal doors
In this case, do not even try - it is better to contact the service center. If you do this, you will not only gain time and get a quality job, but you will not have to buy an additional lock, which can be broken when you install the door locking mechanism yourself in a metal door.
How to cut a lock into an interior door with a milling cutter
The milling cutter will help to embed not only the lock mechanism itself, but also the hinges on which the door rests. This tool can be of different types, but for the type of work indicated in the topic, a universal submersible is required. By the way, experts use it most often. Many note the ease of use of the tool in the apartment: a person who has never held a milling cutter in his hands can master it.
What association can arise with the word "milling cutter"? Most of them represent a huge machine, a machine tool, one at its sight and use gives a completely different feeling - it looks like a convenient compact tool.
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In fact, you can do a lot of useful things with it: embed a locking mechanism, make even edges, create holes for hinges, etc.
Let's take a step-by-step look at how to cut a lock into a door using a tool such as a milling cutter:
- we fasten the door with a slipway so that in the process we do not have to constantly hold the door leaf;
- we create markup for the future castle, its tongue;
- we take the locking mechanism, apply it to the door, make sure that the markings are exactly in the center of the hole. Now let's finish sketching: let's draw the upper and lower parts of the bar, the body of the device itself;
- straight lines at the end of the door help to make a recess with a router.
In order not to remove more than necessary with the router, you need to take masking tape and seal the edges as a limit.
The following video will help you figure out how to cut a lock with a router. Professionals tell how this can be done really in a short period of time:
A lot of people faced a not very pleasant issue related to the breakdown of the lock. In this option, the only way out is to call a specialist at home. Also, situations of breaking the door are not excluded, when the keys were left in the apartment, and the lock simply clicked into place. An unpleasant situation also occurs when the key is lost. There are many thieves who specialize in breaking door locks - in this case, the damage to housing is huge: there is not only the loss of property, but the forced change of the lock, or even the door at all.
In all situations, except for the last one, the door will have to be opened by ourselves, followed by the replacement of the lock or its repair, depending on the damage.
If the key is not made of durable material, then you can inadvertently leave part of it in the lock - in this situation, the lock will have to be disassembled after opening the door leaf, and if the door itself is made of metal, a call to the service can save you from buying a new door.
An interior door made of wood and having a simple lock can significantly reduce the cost of calling a master - here you can do the repair work yourself. The main thing is not to damage the door itself in the process and be extremely careful.
Mortise lock without router
If you do not have money to purchase such a tool, and your neighbor refused to share, then in this case you should not worry - you can embed the lock calmly and without a milling cutter. You will need a simple set of tools that every man has at home.
It is also possible to completely replace the lock (depending on the situation), in addition to its tie-in and repair. This is most likely best done when you move into a new apartment and move into your own after the lease has ended. A complete change of locks will allow you to sleep soundly and not think that someone can just climb into your house.
In custody
Of course, in order to save your time and not accidentally damage only the purchased door, you can use the service of a master. However, it is much more pleasant to know that the door that your household members open is made by you.
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