Recent content by bwaj

Hi @JohnD I can't be certain about dimensions of the existing latch having never seen it out of the door, but the total length can't be any longer than 52mm (the width of that wooden section of door). Yes, it is a tubular latch. Photo below. No risk of knuckle-banging as the knob is in the...

I'm looking for advice on what I can do with a door knob whose rose spills over the edge of the wood (by 2-3mm) on a glass-panelled door. The full story: We've just replaced all our internal doors, bar one 50-year old set of glass-panelled double doors. We've used the same model of door knob...

Many thanks @TimboTwo @JobAndKnock @^woody^ @conny for enlightening me. We definitely don't want to install a new staircase. But we do want to replace the skirting boards you see running along the floor horizontally at the bottom of the stairs. So the question becomes: how do we keep the style...

Replacing plain old horizontal skirting board seems to be a pretty simple job, but what about when it runs up a staircase? Below are pics of what we have and want to replace. I don't know how it was cut/installed or how we can go about removing and replacing it (without damaging the stairs)...

Great, thanks @JobAndKnock @foxhole It’s not possible to go with wider architrave because at 45mm it runs right up against the wall on one side of most of my doors.

I need to replace 45mm-wide architrave on some internal doors. I can’t find much architrave of that width that I like. Is it possible — or even advisable —to buy wider-than-needed architrave and trim it down without compromising anything?