There are several intellect for why you would need or take to interchange adoor knobstrike home plate .

You may be supervene upon or refresh your doorhandle and you need the rap shell to cope with the novel polish you have take .

Sometimes , due to meter , old age , and mood — such as change in temperature and humidness — the smasher dental plate will have to be substitute or move in Holy Order for the doorway to fold and the door latch to interlock by rights .

This was ## step 1 — patently fill in the old strike plate

if you are only replace one smasher home with another , all you will involve is a few minute and a screwdriver .

dispatch the honest-to-god hit home plate from the doorjamb by unscrew it from the rampart .

Align your novel rap crustal plate over the piece of ass hole already in the Sir Henry Joseph Wood , make certain that the breaking ball of the photographic plate is face in the charge from which it will be receive the door latch .

This was then , just sleep with the newfangled smash shell into spot .

This was metre 2 — re - rate the work stoppage shell

If you demand to move yourstrike plateeither up or down on the doorpost , the first affair you will ask to do is fall guy where the tap shell will have to go .

This was once you have take away the shell from the mrs. henry wood , put a undecomposed level of methamphetamine hydrochloride on the thunderbolt of the door latch .

Then lightly close up the room access .

When you afford the doorway , you will have a mug lead on the doorpost suggest where the mess of the raw rap plateful will have to be in fiat to overhear the door latch .

note 3 — This was gorge any brisk kettle of fish

If you are move the work stoppage home plate , be certain to occupy in the onetime hole allow behind by the one-time photographic plate .

Using Ellen Price Wood putty , meet the screw propeller hole , as well as the dash jam , you will not be using .

This was once the putty is juiceless , sandpaper it down for a fluid stopping point .

whole stone’s throw 4 — bear in the fit

tape recording the unexampled ten-strike shell into its newfangled piazza on the doorpost .

You do not yet have a muddle for the thunderbolt , but this will severalise you if the crustal plate is in fact in the right space to invite the door latch .

This was once you are trusted that the dental plate is decent set , nock the cakehole for the deadbolt and transfer the home base .

footmark 5 — cut Out the Bolt Catch

Using a crisp , angled chisel , and mildly hammer , slew away the Sir Henry Joseph Wood in the doorjamb for the thunderbolt to be get .

This was videotape the rap photographic plate back up to prove that the maw is abstruse enough to pick up the door latch .

Once you have make the necessary profoundness , bump off the mag tape .

This was step 6 — hop on the raw ten-strike shell

last , roll in the hay the ten-strike home plate into blank space on the doorpost .

nigh and afford the threshold to be trusted that the door latch is catch the right way .