I'm looking for furniture for the new internal doors I'll be having fitted soon.
My requirements are:
- All doors are 35mm thick
- Door handles with latches everywhere
- Bedrooms: thumbturns on the inside and key holes on the outside.
- Bathroom: 'turn and release', i.e. thumbturn inside and a screw (openable with a coin) outside
A friend of mine has bought some furniture for me but I'm not happy and will have to return it. He bought locks like for external doors, with euro profiles, and T35/35 cylinders, which are too long.
I've looked for T25/25 ones but can't find any. The shortest I could find are T30/30. I can use those, but they would stick out and look ugly.
I understand that this is because euro-profile locks are meant for external doors, which are thicker and require more security and therefore longer keys.
But I don't need security here, I just want my lodgers to be able to lock their doors without a key from the inside, lock them with a key from the outside, and I want to be able to open the door if necessary.
I'm wondering if there are different kinds of locks that would achieve the same but wouldn't force me to buy long cylinders?
Also the spindle in the turn and release for the bathroom is too long. Can this be cut back?
My requirements are:
- All doors are 35mm thick
- Door handles with latches everywhere
- Bedrooms: thumbturns on the inside and key holes on the outside.
- Bathroom: 'turn and release', i.e. thumbturn inside and a screw (openable with a coin) outside
A friend of mine has bought some furniture for me but I'm not happy and will have to return it. He bought locks like for external doors, with euro profiles, and T35/35 cylinders, which are too long.
I've looked for T25/25 ones but can't find any. The shortest I could find are T30/30. I can use those, but they would stick out and look ugly.
I understand that this is because euro-profile locks are meant for external doors, which are thicker and require more security and therefore longer keys.
But I don't need security here, I just want my lodgers to be able to lock their doors without a key from the inside, lock them with a key from the outside, and I want to be able to open the door if necessary.
I'm wondering if there are different kinds of locks that would achieve the same but wouldn't force me to buy long cylinders?
Also the spindle in the turn and release for the bathroom is too long. Can this be cut back?