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Types of latches for interior doors

Repairs in the apartment ends, it’s time to install interior doors. The package consists of door leaf and racks of them will need to collect the box. Accessories supplied the interior doors are not included and may need to be purchased separately.

It is important! Be sure to pay attention not only on the aesthetic properties of your hardware, but also on its reliability. To prefer better products well-known manufacturers. The Council «jammed», however, no less relevant. Buying a known model of the plant, you will receive a guarantee of quality and long lasting service of the product.

On interior doors in the apartment extremely rare set of the locking system are usually limited to latches. Locks with cylinders under the key need to restrict access to the premises to outsiders, and place them rather in offices, not in homes. In the apartment lock latch set only in the bathroom and the bathroom. This castle is called plumbing. Retainer which can be installed on the same plate with the door handle or at the individual outlet, consists of wrapping and washers with a slot. The wrapping is mounted on the inner side of the door and the door closes. Puck is mounted on the outer side and inserting into the slot, the coin in the case of emergency situation to open the door. Accidents happen, and people indoors may not be able to open the door.

Types of latches for interior doors

Types of latches for interior doors

What are the clips for the interior door ↑

The apartment is installed on the interior door latch is sufficient to securely lock it in the closed position. There are the following types:

  • Latch bolt mechanical latch. The latch latch bolt latch has on one side a tapered shape, and when released in a groove this form prevents arbitrary door is opened. When the tongue enters the groove strikers, heard a clicking sound. To open the door by turning the handle, which will actuate mechanism to compress the spring and release the latch.This is the most common type of mechanism installed on the lever and rotary knob. Knobs have the shape of a ball or oval, less frequently the form of a cylinder, and are called still handles knoble.
    Types of latches for interior doorsTypes of latches for interior doors
  • Door with a latch. The principle of operation are similar to locks, only the function key in this case is performed by the lock – the special wrapping which can be placed on one plate, with handle or installed separately at a distance. The retainer makes it impossible to open the door only with a pen.
    Types of latches for interior doors

  • Roller, which are usually installed on doors with spring hinges. When the door is closed, the roller falls into the hole strikers and locks the door in the closed position. The latch can be returned to the position «open» without pressing on the handle – the door has to be pulled with little effort on yourself. Roller latches are perfectly suited for children’s rooms. With it you will not need to call a locksmith of the management company, to get to his little mischievous.
    Types of latches for interior doors

  • Magnetic closing almost silently (there is no mechanical click). Magnetic tongue «sticks» in response, the bar is already in the closed position of the door. The advantage of the magnetic latches is much more simple setup. You do not need to achieve a precise fit of the cloth in a box, magnetic latch will work even if the cloth appears a little skewed. Produced all the familiar magnetic latch, which consists of a magnet and metal plate. There are more complex varieties, for example, a latch with a moving magnet, which acts as a tongue.
    Types of latches for interior doors

It is important! For interior doors use a latch without locking that keep them in the closed position without locking or locking mechanisms which can lock the door without the ability to open it from outside (with the exception of sanitary locks). Typically, latches with latch made in the form of a handle-knob. While the lock may be both on the handle and individual outlet.

Installation handle-latch ↑

To install the clips we need:

  • Drill with set of drills for lock installation (drill pen, crown wood, drill bits for wood).
  • Screwdriver set.
  • Medium and narrow chisel. Sampling under the bar latches very comfortable with the router, but it is not included in the number «mandatory» home tool.
  • Hammer.
  • Shyla.
  • A square and a pencil.
  • Carpenter’s knife.

Install the latch on the door leaf at a height of 1.0 m. This is due to the fact that manufacturers at this height allowed in door construction wooden beam for rigidity. From the bottom of the door leaf on both sides marked the desired distance and using a square with a soft pencil draws a line. The latch is applied to the fabric and define the place for the installation of the handle. Latches are available in size 60 and 70 mm.

Some builders suggest to start drilling from the face side of the fabric. Then, when the crown 50 mm, you will drill cloth, the shavings will fly in the finished hole, and will not clog the teeth of the crown.

The pen drill to the depth of its blade drilled hole. Then it flattens a conventional drill and a chisel to the desired size. To the end of a cloth strap attached to the latch, and a sharp carpenter’s knife around the perimeter of the cut veneer. Then the chisel is the sample to install the straps so that she was in one level with the door leaf.

On the sides of the crown that a hole is drilled for the installation of the handle.

It is important! Through holes do not need a crown when you exit from the opposite side can damage the veneer. Enough to see the edge of the guide drill, then drill, turn it off and continue drilling from the other side.

After both holes are ready, they are carefully align a narrow chisel. Then set the latch strap. The strap is fixed to the door with small screws. To install handle taking it apart, which one the screw is unscrewed, the second weaken. Pen set in place, the remaining screw is tightened, so the Central pin remained during Assembly on site. On the other hand dress second hand and tighten the locking screw. Then handles are attached with screws to the door leaf and the decorative trims dress.

Work is nearing completion to install the striker («the return») on the box. To do this, the door leaf cover, but not completely, and pencil stand on a box the size of the tongue. Using a square, measure the distance from the edge of the canvas to the center of the latch, then it is also transferred to the box. In the box that a hole is drilled in the groove for the tongue is the sample to install the striker, then the strap is screwed to the box. For groove there are special pockets of plastic.

Types of latches for interior doorsTypes of latches for interior doors

Types of latches for interior doors

As a conclusion ↑

Decide what type of latch for the interior door suits you best, and decide who will set – you or called you master. However, if you decided interior doors to install yourself, the installation of the latch you just will be capable of.

Types of latches for interior doorsTypes of latches for interior doorsTypes of latches for interior doorsTypes of latches for interior doors

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