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Hi All,
I've just hung 4 new hardwood doors this weekend, now I need to add the knobs and catches but I'm having some trouble with fastening the knobs to the doors.
The knobs are brass ones from wickes, the problems I am having are as follows.
1. The 3 screw holes for attaching the knob to the door are obscured by the knob handle so i'm unable to get the screws in straight.
2. Because these doors are hardwood, the screws really need a pilot hole to help them along but marking out where to drill the holes is also awkward due the obscured holes.
3. I managed to get one of the knobs attached with a lot of cursing and swearing, the soft brass screws have taken a bit of a battering because of the force I had to apply the get the screws in. But there seems to be a bit of binding now because the catch doesn't spring back after I let go of the handle.
4. The instructions that came with the door knobs are pants and just dont help at all.
Is there some obvious solution that I'm missing here? I would appreciate it if anyone could offer some advice to this problem.
Thanks in advance
Mark
I've just hung 4 new hardwood doors this weekend, now I need to add the knobs and catches but I'm having some trouble with fastening the knobs to the doors.
The knobs are brass ones from wickes, the problems I am having are as follows.
1. The 3 screw holes for attaching the knob to the door are obscured by the knob handle so i'm unable to get the screws in straight.
2. Because these doors are hardwood, the screws really need a pilot hole to help them along but marking out where to drill the holes is also awkward due the obscured holes.
3. I managed to get one of the knobs attached with a lot of cursing and swearing, the soft brass screws have taken a bit of a battering because of the force I had to apply the get the screws in. But there seems to be a bit of binding now because the catch doesn't spring back after I let go of the handle.
4. The instructions that came with the door knobs are pants and just dont help at all.
Is there some obvious solution that I'm missing here? I would appreciate it if anyone could offer some advice to this problem.
Thanks in advance
Mark