Keeping doors closed

[mike. buckley]

Got a bit of an odd problem, due to my own fault in not thinking ahead.

We have a pair of hinged doors separating our dining room from our living room. They're not on rails, and pretty much hang where they want, this hasn't been a problem before as the dining room needed decorating so we just lent some junk against the door to keep it shut, however it's now time to decorate the dining room...

I don't particularly want to bolt one side of the door, as I'd like them to be opened from both sides. I think I've seen a bolt you can use where the bolt is recessed into the door and it has a handle on either side. Google isn't helping me out though, does anybody know if such a bolt exists?

Failing that I wonder if magnets would work? Similar to those used on kitchen cupboards.

Thanks

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

When doors are closed how much gap is there in between? Is there enough to accomadate one a set of these?

[Owain]

You bolt one door to the floor or ceiling (lintel) (or both) with Screwfix 18988 recessed into the *edge* of the secondary door, and use a normal latch on the primary door with its keep on the secondary door. To open both doors, open primary door from either side, then release flush bolt on secondary door.

You can use 93701 if you want to stop the doors swinging freely once opened.

Owain

[John Rumm]

I take it these are double doors?

If so, I did a pair fo these ones using a couple of adjustable roller catches:

on the top of the "fixed door" (i.e. the one with the door stop) that catches on the top rail. The second on the side of the free door.

Because they are adjustable, you can set the fixed one to require more force to open. That way it does not open when you pull the free door.