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Doggit
Post a pic please to clarify
French door fitting
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Pic of what?
The master door locks against the slave but the slave wont lock even if the door is open? Faulty barrel? Does it need some adjustment before it can lock? When i lift the handle it doesnt seem to go as high as the master handle
The master door locks against the slave but the slave wont lock even if the door is open? Faulty barrel? Does it need some adjustment before it can lock? When i lift the handle it doesnt seem to go as high as the master handle
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Doggit
Photos of the door so I can see exactly what the problem is that you're trying to describe - there are different styles of door remember, and we're doing this remotely.
You'd normally have a handle on each door, and a euro lock on the master door. You close the slave door and lift the handle which should lock it into place top and bottom, then close the master door, lift the handle, and that should then let you operate the key lock. If the handle on the slave door doesn't lift as high as the master door, and lock it into place, that suggests a faulty mechanism, but you'll only find out by dismantling the mechanism, and seeing where it snags.
But you bought that was being sold cheap because it was the wrong size, not because it was substandard - you should be able to go back to the shop, and get them to sort it out.
You'd normally have a handle on each door, and a euro lock on the master door. You close the slave door and lift the handle which should lock it into place top and bottom, then close the master door, lift the handle, and that should then let you operate the key lock. If the handle on the slave door doesn't lift as high as the master door, and lock it into place, that suggests a faulty mechanism, but you'll only find out by dismantling the mechanism, and seeing where it snags.
But you bought that was being sold cheap because it was the wrong size, not because it was substandard - you should be able to go back to the shop, and get them to sort it out.
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I know people love to save money, but by the time you paid for a cheap door with no guarantee, paid for all the tools/materials required to fit the door, installed it, paid for LABC to sign it off, the general stress of everything involved, you might as well pay a few hundred more and get a local company in, youll get a decent job done, guaranteed for 10yrs, signed off fensa/Certass, insurance backed guarantee, no further worries as they'll come back rectify if there are issues during the 10yrs.
We've just helped a customer out, the builder has walked off site due to the customer being too involved, customer had bought all the materials, windows, doors, tiles etc themselves, everything cheap and most things not fit for purpose. The doors we installed for them were wrong size, wrong spec, rooflights were wrong spec, they've now ordered everything again at the size/spec it should be.
They thought by buying everything themselves instead of the builder they'd save..... Far from it
Do it right the first time
We've just helped a customer out, the builder has walked off site due to the customer being too involved, customer had bought all the materials, windows, doors, tiles etc themselves, everything cheap and most things not fit for purpose. The doors we installed for them were wrong size, wrong spec, rooflights were wrong spec, they've now ordered everything again at the size/spec it should be.
They thought by buying everything themselves instead of the builder they'd save..... Far from it
Do it right the first time
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