My aged aunt has got off-white plastic lever-type door handles (no lock - just a rectangular plate with four screws through it) on all her interior doors but one has snapped off. Any ideas where I might find a replacement?
They're cheap and nasty but I'd like to find one which matches rather than replace the lot. Anyone got one in the shed? I'll get a photo of one for comparison if necessary.
Ta,
Si
We might. Send a pic - you know the address.
Mary
Thanks Mary, I'll see her tomorrow so I'll take a pic then.
Si
My! that takes me back...Plastic handles on the doors in the 60's, ours where light green.
I can see why you'd want all the door handles in the hall or landing to match - I would, too - but does it matter if the handle inside a particular room is different to the ones in other rooms?
David
We aged aunts have some very odd preferences :-)
Mary
I dont think you will find any toyboys on here Missus. :-)
Exactly! There speaks a woman wot knows.
Si
They were still being used in 1978, apparently, when these flats were built. Every internal door is a fire door (because there's only one exit?) yet the handles are cheap tat and probably would have melted at the first sign of a fire.
Si
I have my own, I married him in 1960.
Mary
All the plastic door handles I have ever seen (not in recent years) are of a Bakelite type thermoset plastic which would probably char rather than melt.
I hate to tell you but...thats not a toyboy its a bedwarmer. :-)
I really don't know why you bother to reply, you don't know anything.
Tell you what, I shan't read your posts and you don't read mine.
Mary
Fine by me. Lighten up did you not see the smiley.
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