How To Make A Door Lock Hole Bigger

Why won t that new doorknob fit in your old door.

How to make a door lock hole bigger.

Because there s a new larger standard size for doorknobs. The last thing you want to use is a jigsaw. When enlarging a lockset hole mark the centerlines of the old hole on the door. Lay the block on the door and align the two sets of center marks.

Enlarging the lockset hole in a door can be difficult since there s nothing to guide the pilot bit. 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. Need to drill a new hole really close to the original one. Have a door out of alignment due to settling.

This is a common problem when drilling a larger hole in a door for a new deadbolt or lockset. The stripped hole repair kit from king s original ha. Instead of paying big bucks for a new door wi. Set the pilot bit on the intersecting centerlines and bore clean.

All you need is an idea how to drill a hole in the door for new hardware on a old door. Cut two pieces of scrap plywood several inches larger than the diameter of the hole. Cut two scraps of 1 2 or thicker plywood making them several inches larger than the hole. Place a second plywood block behind the door and clamp the parts together as illustrated.

To solve this problem. To enlarge an existing hole. The hole diameters are 2 and 1 8 inch and 1 inch respectively. Draw a center line on the plywood and mark setback of the hole from one edge of the plywood.