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hi can anyone tell me the exact height from the floor that a door handle should be fitted to an interior door, sound a stupid question i know, but we removed all our doors a long time ago will building work on house and cant remeber if there is an exact measurement rather than guessing and it looks stupid

Has a guide between 900 & 1m to the centre of the spindle. But some say if the door as a midrail then this is the position / height of the door handle.

Hi bgatty68, just measured mine and they are 38 1/2" to centre of spindle,but others may be different.

On doors that are hollow (hardboard faced), if you look at the top edge of the door, you'll see a mark saying "lock" or a picture of a key at one end. This tells you which side the "lock block" is located, and it's halfway down and will be about 300mm long, this is where you fix the lock!

thanks for that all of you, the doors im fitting are fire doors which is why i asked as the door is solid and handle can go anywhere (within reason)
will measure to approx 3ft from floor as average of all of yours.
Thank you

Wood Magnet wrote:Hi bgatty68, just measured mine and they are 38 1/2" to centre of spindle,but others may be different.

Yes indeed! - My handles are 53" from floor to spindle centre

hoovie that is nearly 4 1/2ft from the floor that seems high???

May be that would be for a door like this!

that is what i thought

That's what my doors are like, solid mahogany, from the 20's house built 1927, nearly as old as Woody!!





John

Got me there John.

ellie wrote:Has a guide between 900 & 1m to the centre of the spindle. But some say if the door as a midrail then this is the position / height of the door handle.

sorry but thats total wrong, fitting the lock at the midrail on a mortise and tenon door destroys the tenon and weakens the door

That’s why I said some say

tim

your comments show you know very little about traditional door construction which is little changed in over 400 years



the lock fits between the tennons in the mid rail of a door

which is EXACTLY the reason why the lock is centred in the mid rail

which is EXACTLY why it doesnt damage the integrity of the door

ellie wrote:May be that would be for a door like this!

Ellie - I wish you were correct in that my doors looked that nice - but yup, that is the sort of door I have, but not well cared for (but that is another post )