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How do you cut out a strike plate on a door?
Position the strike plate on the jamb so it is centered on both lines. Score around the plate with a sharp utility knife. Using a sharp 1-inch-wide chisel, cut a series of parallel lines into the jamb about 1/4 inch apart, staying within the scored lines and holding the chisel perpendicular to the wood.
How do you deepen a strike plate hole?
This can be corrected by enlarging the bolt pocket or changing the strike plate. To make the bolt pocket deeper, taller or wider, depending on where your bolt is dragging, use a chisel on the bolt hole until it is 1” deep and allows the bolt to fully extend without dragging.
How do you make a hole in a deadbolt deeper?
Using the appropriate-sized spade bit and an electric drill, cut the hole in the door frame about 1/4 inch deeper. Test the latch mechanism again. If the twist knob stops in the same position with the door opened and closed, the hole is deep enough. If not, use the drill to make the hole another 1/4 inch deeper.
How do you mortise a door with a Dremel?
Using the Dremel router attachment, remove the wood between pencil lines drawn on the door’s edge to create a mortise for the faceplate. Fit the latch and faceplate into the door. Use a bevel edge chisel and hammer to square the corners of the mortise if faceplate has square corners.
What’s the best way to recess a door strike plate?
Chisel out the wood from inside the lines you scored with the utility knife. Strike the chisel with a hammer to carve away slivers of wood. Make the depth of the chiseled-out area the thickness of the strike plate, so the plate will sit flush with the surrounding surface of the frame.
How do you chisel out a door lock plate?
Align the edge of the strike plate’s hole just to the door-side of the mark, and proceed with scoring around the strike plate. Chiseling a recess — called a mortise — for a door lock plate is one of those jobs that’s very simple in theory but also very easy to mess up.
How to mortise a door with a chisel?
1 Using a router attachment, remove the wood between the pencil lines drawn on the door edge to create a mortise for the faceplate. 2 Fit the latch and faceplate into the door. 3 Use a bevel edge chisel and hammer to square the corners of the mortise if the faceplate has square corners.
Where is the strike plate on a wood door?
The strike plate is the small piece of metal on the door frame where the latch from the key rests when the door is closed. If a strike plate is out of place, it can cause annoying problems like a noisy, rattling noise when you open and close the door, as well as a wood door that refuses to stay shut.