每日家庭整修技巧

Today and tomorrow we present a short two part series on finishing door handle installation.

Likely our frequent readers know my pet peave about renovation jobs that are not truly finished. When it comes to French Door from a building supply retailer, they arrive at your home usually without the hole cut for the door handle hardware to be installed. Either your contractor or you need to do this.

Now, once this is done and the door handle hardware installed into the door and door frame, the job is not finished. Below are two pictures to illustrate this point. The first picture is of a door handle hardware within the door.

Do you think the job is finished? We don’t.

The finish, even after the application of two coats of paint on the French Doors, does not look professional, or finished.

The second picture below is of the face plate hardware within the door frame. Again, it looks messy and not finished.

It does not take much effort to finish the job.

In our concluding article tomorrow, we will tell you what simple steps we took to finish the job and show you the results. And, no, we did not use caulking.

To continue with the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 2.