Advice on fitting door handles

Gobezza · Post by **Gobezza** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:12 pm

I'm fitting new doors throughout and have just got to the handles.

I've bought Handle on Rose type and every time I screw the rose to the door the handle stops returning to the horizontal position.

I've fitted 2 sets of handle and both are doing it.

Am I missing a trick or have I bought crap handles?

thescruff · Post by **thescruff** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:17 pm

Probably the bar is slightly too long .

joiner_uk · Post by **joiner_uk** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 6:32 pm

Make sure the handle can operate freely without catching on anything.

Squirt a bit of wd40 on the back of the handle and also in the latch

Allign the handles exactly on each side of the door, just a few mm out will cause the handles not to return.

Look on the back of the handle where the spindle goes in.
Make sure the casting is not stuck out slightly from the backplate of the handle.
If so make the hole slightly bigger in the door for the spindle to go through.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:57 pm

to add to scruff and joiner uk s advice

the tendancy is to screw the handles where they sit on the shaft this pushes the shaft off line

what you should do is lift the handles on the shaft up and down and side to side you then move the handles till they are half the difference this should line them up with the shaft