How To Make A Door Lock Hole Bigger

All you need is an idea how to drill a hole in the door for new hardware on a old door.

How to make a door lock hole bigger.

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. The hole diameters are 2 and 1 8 inch and 1 inch respectively. Why won t that new doorknob fit in your old door.

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. Instead of paying big bucks for a new door wi. Jam a wood plug into the existing hole haha show how to drill a hole. Mark the centerline of the existing hole on the edge of the door.

Lay the block on the door and align the two sets of center marks. This is a common problem when drilling a larger hole in a door for a new deadbolt or lockset. Cut two pieces of scrap plywood several inches larger than the diameter of the hole. Then mark centerlines on the plywood block.

Have a door out of alignment due to settling. To solve this problem. Draw a center line on the plywood and mark setback of the hole from one edge of the plywood. The stripped hole repair kit from king s original ha.

Set the pilot bit on the intersecting centerlines and bore clean. To enlarge an existing hole. 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.