Anyone know if these things can be fitted where the door is in a stud/plasterboard wall? FiL put one in at our old house but the wall in question there was cinder-block.
Thanks,
Anyone know if these things can be fitted where the door is in a stud/plasterboard wall? FiL put one in at our old house but the wall in question there was cinder-block.
Thanks,
Is this the sort with a little chain in the doorjam?
ISTR the guts of the are pushed inside the door, with a fixing also on the doorframe. They won't know or care what's the other side of the doorframe.
Thass the one.
Guess it all comes down to getting a solid fixing, then. The springs on these things are pretty strong (have to be, of course).
Used to be made/branded PERKO? If you don't have the bit of metal they come with to hold the chain extended whilst you put the screws in, then jam a small nail in the chain link instead.
hth
Bob
Indeed they do, but I see no reason why you shouldn't fit the barrel into the frame if there were a studwork void behind it. It would get you around the problem of drilling a deep 25mm hole into the door which may be as thin as 32mm.
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