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Figure  6-29.Installation  of  door  hardware.
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Figure 6-30.—Parts of a cylinder lock. The door should now be placed in the opening and blocked up at the bottom for proper clearance. The jamb should  be  marked  at  the  hinge  locations,  and  the remaining hinge half routed and fastened in place. The door should then be positioned in the opening and the pins  slipped  in  place.  If  you  have  installed  the  hinges correctly and the jambs are plumb, the door should swing  freely. Locks The  types  of  door  locks  differ  with  regard  to installation, cost, and the amount of  labor required to set them.  Some  types,  such  as  mortise  locks,  combination dead bolts, and latch locksets, require drilling of the edge and face of the door and then routing of the edge to accommodate the lockset and faceplate (fig, 6-29, view B). A bored lockset (view C) is easy to install since it requires only one hole drilled in the edge and one in the face of the door. Boring jigs and faceplate markers are available to ensure accurate installation. The lock should be installed so that the doorknob is 36 to 38 inches above the floor line. Most sets come with paper templates, marking the location of the lock and size  of  the  holes  to  be  drilled.  Be  sure  to  read  the manufacturer’s   installation   instructions   carefully. Recheck your layout measurements before you drill any holes. The parts of an ordinary cylinder lock for a door are shown in figure 6-30. The procedure for installing a lock of this type is as follows: 1. 2. 3. Open the door to a convenient working position and check it in place with wedges under the bottom near the outer edge. Measure up 36 inches from the floor (the usual knob height), and square a line across the face and edge of the lock stile. Place the template, which is usually supplied with a cylinder lock, on the face of the door at the proper height and alignment with layout lines and mark the centers of the holes to be drilled.  (A  typical  template  is  shown  in  fig. 6-31.) Figure  6-31.—Drill  template  for  locksets. 6-20







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