Once you’vehung a new door , you need to fit it with a lockset .
Some doors number predrilled for received - size locksets . Other doors require you to practice the holes yourself , using a template provided by the lock manufacturer . With any door , you want to disregard mortises , or hollow , in the room access edge for the lockset and in the frame of reference for the rap collection plate that engages the lock ’s bolt .
What You’ll Need
Here are the tools you ’ll want to have on hand to set up a lockset :
Here ’s how to install a lockset :
Step 1 : Wrap the newspaper or cardboard guide that comes with the new lockset around the edge of the door according to manufacturing business ’s teaching . If necessary , use mag tape to secure the guide . Template will be used to locate two holes : one mess for lock cylinder and the other for edge of door for deadbolt . Mark centers for these two pickle on door .
Step 2 : utilise a power drill with hole - saw attachment to drill hole the size of it specified for whorl cylinder . Be careful not to damage the veneer on the opposite side of door . When you see the point of the drill coming through , block and finish boring from other side .
Step 3 : Drill a yap the appropriate sizing for the bolt into the sharpness of door until you reach the cylinder hole . Use the combination square against the edge of the doorway and the drill bit to keep the bite at a ripe slant to the door . Smooth bound of holes with emery paper .
Step 5 : utilise a chisel to turn out the mortise . put in the thunderbolt and photographic plate in the mortise , and drill the original gob for mounting shag . add the shag to secure the bolt in topographic point .
Step 6 : Insert the remote lock cylinder so the stems or connecting bar fits into the bolt meeting place . bind the interior lock piston chamber , and secure it with the screw .
Step 7 : place the proper spot for the bang scale on the jamb , and practice the proper - size hole in the jamb . Using the strike plate as a traffic pattern , mark the jamb for mortising , and cut the mortice . add the strike plate with screws so it fits flush with the jamb .
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