Disabled Door Lock Height

[Onoff]

If and it's a bit uncertain, my father comes out of hospital we've been doing a few bits around his bungalow. Always hugely resistant to any changes it's come to too much needing doing too late. Not for want of trying on our part believe me. An upstairs he can't use, a layout so contorted that he had to be carried out recently on a kitchen chair when he broke his femur.

 

I took the original, 1960 bathroom door off and fitted a cheap sliding kit from Toolstation together with a bit of softwood trim. Found it totally hollow and open at the bottom and had to make a full width infill piece. Rounded the edges off with a router etc in case he falls against it. There'll be a big "disabled" handle going on the outside:

 

 

 

Dad will probably leave the door open when he's there but for carers and us I figured fit a privacy lock specific for sliding doors. Got one of these:

 

 

 

 

Is there a specific height the thumbscrew should go at?

 

Decided to print a quick jig to aid "drilling" the 47mm holes each side ?:

 

 

 

[TonyT]

900mm from ffl 

[Onoff]

7 minutes ago, TonyT said:

900mm from ffl 

 

Ta. Hopefully it'll be lower than where the original lock has been chomped out. I'll fill everything and give it a quick re-gloss. 

 

Main thing is if he collapses in there he won't fall against and block the door. 

[Onoff]

This old door is fighting me all the way! It's a hardboard skin with hardboard separating strips and softwood infills around the edges and lock area. I want to put one of these 300 mm grab bars, as a handle, on the outside:

 

 

How best to affix? Can't really have anything like nuts or bolts heads projecting the bathroom side, even by a small amount, as it would interfere with the sliding door closing. 

 

Just worried if he grabs it to steady himself he'll pull it off if only into hardboard. 

[Mr Punter]

Why not fix a pair of handles vertically back to back?  Fit the stop so the handle does not foul the frame.

[TonyT]

You would use make/female fixings for this also called bolt through for decent fixings

 

 

[Onoff]

42 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

Why not fix a pair of handles vertically back to back?  Fit the stop so the handle does not foul the frame.

 

Not possible. Inside face of the door is tight against a perpendicular trim piece that covers the gap in the first pic, when shut and only about 3mm clear(of the trim piece) when open.

[Onoff]

52 minutes ago, TonyT said:

You would use make/female fixings for this also called bolt through for decent fixings

 

 

 

With hindsight I should have slid a piece of timber up inside before I put the infill piece in the bottom! 

 

I was thinking to maybe hole saw out the side where the handle is going and glue in a big round of decent timber. Use c'sunk screws from the other side to fix the round. Then fix the handle (into the big round).