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How To Replace A Door Knob

  
  
  

door knobReplacing a doorknob is really an easy job. You typically only need a screwdriver and a little bit of mechanical aptitude. It doesn't matter if the doorknob is a round knob, a lever, or a thumb latch style...they all go in the same way.

Open the door and stick your toolbox in between the door and the frame (so it doesn't close while you are working). The screws that hold the 2 halves of the doorknob together are located on the interior side of the door. Check the handle and you will see them sitting in there. Unscrew them while holding both sides of the door knob in place. Once the screws are removed the two halves will pull apart. Then remove the 2 screws that hold the latch button in the edge of the door and pull it out.

The new doorknob will have the same parts to reinstall. The latch goes in first with 2 screws. You may need to change the backset distance, but this is simply rotating a piece in the latch mechanism. Once the latch is in the front and back halves of the doorknob go into the hole in the door and through the latch, so that when you rotate the handle, the latch moves and retracts the latch button. As you are holding the halves together, rotate the handle to verify that the latch retracts. After that you can install the screws that hold the two halves of the doorknob together.

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