The interior doors are usually not customary to install the door lock, but if redevelopment was made in the residential room or other changes occurred, the need to install the castle. Building stores present a wide selection of interroom doors, which differ in price, quality, color and design. Most doors are sold with handles, but without a door lock. It is quite realistic to perform my own lock in the lock, if you carefully examine the installation recommendations and prepare the necessary tool.

How to choose a suitable lock for interior door

The handle on the door will be needed anyway, but the locks on the interior doors rarely crashes. If you need to install the door and embed the lock, then there is a need to purchase a suitable lock. We offer to learn what are the locks to quickly navigate and choose the desired type of lock.

First of all, you need to be guided by such a rule: if you like this castle, you liked this castle, then you can explore the specifications and purchase the desired model. Locks are sold separately or bundled with a handle.

It is desirable to pick up the fittings of one shade so that it does not differ. There is no need to cut the massive lock on the door, the usual handle with a latch and closing mechanism (locking mechanism) is suitable. This option is considered the most acceptable for the insert.

Another lock model is a turnkey lock that crashes under the door handle.

What instruments need

Since the installation of the lock requires a special tool and certain skills, not every owner will neglected to start this work. But if there is a huge desire, it is possible to cope with the task and on your own, and the expensive tool - the cutter mill may not need.

To properly cut the lock into the interroom door, you must prepare the following:

• electric drill with round nozzles and drill bits of different diameters;
• a screwdriver ordinary and crucible;
• electric screwdriver;
• cyanok with a wooden head;
• roulette or normal meter;
• drills for locking lock;
• simple pencil.

Now you can proceed to the locking of the lock and install the handle into the interroom door.

Box in the castle interior doors

Not everything is as simple as it may seem at first glance. First you need to decide on the place where it is necessary to insert the door lock. The fact is that for MDF doors there are strict rules - to cut the lock only at a height of 1 m from the floor (from the lower edge of the door of the door). Since only on this distance inside a wooden bar is installed specifically designed to install the lock and fasten the handles. If you have purchased a wooden door, then it is usually not necessary to comply with, inset lock on the wooden door is carried out at any convenient location. After determining this point (it is necessary to install a handle with the door lock so that the door is free to open and closed all family members). Once you decide on the location, take a pencil and make a point from the front side of the door, closer to the end part of the door cloth - it will be the location of the castle.

The next step is the preparation of the hole in the doorway:

• next to the outlined point of the lock in the lock, it is necessary to designate a place to drill holes. To do this, take into the hands of the castle itself and in the place where the "tongue" of the latch acts, attach to the doorway and outline the point;
• that is not enough. Attach the door lock to the door and circle a pencil completely - you have to get a template for a lock in the castle. Note the extreme points of drilling on it;
• now you can postpone the castle and prepare the tool you need. We need a round crown (for a round knob with a built-in lock) to drill the hole of the required diameter. Make sure that the edges of the opening do not protrude over the edge of the door handle. Otherwise, an ugly gap will remain. This part of the work can be done without a mill, armed with a tree by a tree, a drill with a drill set and a round file, if the handle along with a rectangular lock. Make a small hole, let it be slightly less, to then work out the edges by hand with a file with a file and try on the lock. If it is tight, you can expand the opening. So you will avoid mistakes during operation;
• carefully try out the lock to the door leaf carefully and make a mark on the front line, it is a very important and responsible moment, since if the hole make a larger diameter, you will have to throw the door or search for another lock to correct an annoying error;
• remove the hole of the desired diameter. The edges can be stamped with a file. This part of the work is not necessary to do well, since the uneven edges will be hidden under the lock and platbands of the door handle;
• during operation, do not hurry the drills, you first need to drill a hole in the doorway on one side and reach the middle and then on the other hand. So you can avoid chipping in the doorway;
• insert the castle in the middle and see how tightly he sat down. Apparently part of the castle, circle a pencil around the perimeter and while remove the latch;
• now you need to arm a chisel on a tree and make a deepening so that the plate is tightly sat down from the outside of the plate into the prepared hole. So it is possible to avoid friction and backlash of the lock during operation;
• while we just prepared a hole to install the lock itself. Now you need to make a few holes to attach the bar in the door of the door;
• we apply the working part (included in the package with the lock and the round handle) and drill with a drill hole. Previously need to outline the points of drilling with a simple pencil, so that you do not make a mistake during operation;
• as soon as the end of the strap to be installed carefully review the entire locking mechanism, not to be mistaken. The fact that the handle with a latch lock fitted with a brake. Triggered mechanism so: cranking handle to the right and the tongue retracts the latch. This can be done on the one hand, and on the opposite. Depending on the model selected, the tab might just snap and just as easy to open. Or to open the door, you need to use the key. Therefore, carefully inspect again lock with the handle and set on the other side, where you will close the door. Assume that you crash lock interior doors in the bedroom. On the side of the corridor to insert and fasten only the locking mechanism to handle freely turned and the door opened, and from the bedroom to establish a snap lock. As soon as the door to the bedroom is closed, you can press on the latch and thus close to the castle. Open the door can be both from the bedroom (by pressing the tab-tab), and from the corridor, but with a key.

Driving tapping lock will help you cope with the task faster:

How to embed the castle interior doors with their hands

We have considered the option tie round handle with built-in locking mechanism (Knob). Now consider another option lock mounting in interior doors - this is the mechanism of the latch. Set the lock on the door can be yourself, you do not need to seek the help of professionals. A little patience and skill and you can save the family budget, and then be proud of the work done.

First you need to explore the castle and how it works from the inside. Keyhole system sold disassembled and consists of two halves. To connect them with each other, need sleeve and screws. System (this "tongue", body and spring) to be inserted into the body. The second half of the locking system - is the flip side. This strap, it is supplied together with the "tongue" or latch.

Now we need to prepare the instrument:

• you need to drill with a set of drills for wood (select the desired diameter corresponding to the size of screws);
• feather drill (tool diameter must be matched to the type and diameter of the locking mechanism);
• crown - if you want to drill a hole for the knob;
• pencil and ruler to mark;
• sharpened knife;
• wood chisels convenient (it is desirable to pre-grind).

How to perform the installation of the lock on the interior doors:

1. Remove the door with loops or put a new door to the stool or on the table.
2. Before proceeding with work, the table is best wrapped with any soft material to protect the surface from damage. It can be an old plaid or a special protective cloth.
3. Now our task is to mark the markup. Measure the line or centimeter distance from the bottom of the door canvase. According to the rules of the inserts of the locks, the distance from the floor should be 97-100 cm or 1 m.
4. With the help of a pencil, we celebrate the point of the first insertion.
5. Now we take the angular ruler and on the end of the door canvase will carry the line, which should then be divided into 2 equal parts.
6. Sille in the middle of the template you need to make a slight recess to fix the drill.
7. Next, our task is to measure the segment in the depths of the door canvase. The initial point is in the middle of the plank, the ultimate is the place of attachment of the locking mechanism.
8. With the help of an angular line, you need to transfer our measurements to the door surface and to read the line. So we get a ready-made pattern. It remains drilled holes.
9. First, make some deepends under the mounting handle. To do this, you can use the crown or drill a hole using a drill.
10. In order to prevent chips on the surface of the door, work in 2 stages: we reveal until the middle and make a hole on the reverse side. So you can evenly distribute the load on the door.
11. We take a feathery drill and make a hole in order to insert the locking mechanism. Serve the recess on the intended template.
12. The finished hole must be connected to the first to insert the lock and secure it. If you see that it is poorly inserted, you can expand the opening, armed with a file.
13. Do not forget to prepare a place under the self-tapping screw, which will hold the castle itself. To do this, you can use the electric drill.
14. Further, at the final stage of installing the door lock, you need to install the handles and fasten them with the screws that are included.
15. As soon as the installation process is completed, it remains to clean the beauty and fasten the decorative element - the door lining. It needs to be "planted" to a special retainer.
16. It remains to install the second part of the castle - the latch into the door box. To do this, put the door in the opening, spin the canopies and close the door. Now a pencil outline the point where the lock (lock tongue) is in contact with the box and mark that spot.
17. According to the outlined points, you need to attach a bar and circling it with a pencil. If everything is done correctly and the bar is located smoothly, you can drill holes to attach it.
18. Do not forget to make a small deepening in the door box for the "tongue" in the doorway so that he can be free to it. If this part of the work is successful, you can fix the bar on the screw and check the work.

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Install the lock in the interior door is easy, it is important not to hurry and clearly follow these recommendations and then you can count on long-term operation.

Castles in interroom doors.

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