How To Attach A Handle To A Hollow Core Door

Overview for dressing up a hollow core door illustration by gregory nemec.

How to attach a handle to a hollow core door. If your doors have been fitted correctly there should be a lock block where the handles fit ie the door is not hollow where the lock and handles fit. To mount anything into a hollow door requires special hollow door anchors. Saturday cut and install the panel frames steps 2 11. Since there s not much solid wood in a hollow core interior door screws will usually tear out of the door as soon as any weight is applied to them.

Many do it yourselfers encounter this problem when they are trying to hang a robe or towel rack on a hollow bathroom door. Repairing loose door handles on hollow doors many modern interior flush doors have a hollow core often consisting of little more than a honeycomb of corrugated cardboard to provide rigidity and a thin plywood skin covered in a vinyl or foil decorative finish. The knob is mounted in an aesthetically pleasing position in the middle of the door. I need a way to stabilize the knob without bending cracking the door s surface.

If the screws in your door hinge have become loose and frequently require tightening or have been tightened so often that they no longer stay securely in place causing the door to sag most likely the wood sections the stiles that frame the inside of the door need reinforcement. No pre drilling is necessary in drywall anchors screw directly into wall and will not break if they hit a stud. Use only a 2 phillips screwdriver. Door stiles the wooden side frames inside the door aren t very deep which is part of the reason hinges become.

Download and print the cut list. Cut list for dressing up a hollow core door. The doors may be hollow or egg shell construction but where the latch and handles are there should be a lock block which is a piece of solid wood sometimes chipboard glued to one side of the door to take the ironmongary handles etc. E z ancor 1 in.

Hollow doors also called hollow core doors can present a challenge if you want to attach a hook. If you want to fix into a hollow door the plasplugs hollow door fixings are good but they depend on whatever is being fixed to the door having a surface which is flush with the door surface. They offer a holding strength of up to 40 lb. Sunday hang the door and install the lockset step 12 13.

The problem is that the door is hollow at this point so any attempt to tighten the screw from the back of the door just makes both sides of the door bend inwards towards each other.