When it comes to DIY I am happy to admit that while I attack it with a lot of enthusiasm, the results are not always perfect.
Mostly it goes OK, but there are always small things that bugger it up.
One thing I have always struggled with is drilling a hole perpendicular to a surface; they generally end up a bit wonky.
I bought some new door handles recently & rather than normal wood screws fastening them to the door, they have come with a male/female screw arrangement that requires a clearance hole to be drilled through the entire door & perfect alignment of the two parts of the screw; basically one half is a normal screw & the other is a threaded tube to receive the ‘normal screw’.
Because the heads are countersunk, they will pull into the countersink so the hole needs to be square to the door surface or it will all go to cock.
At the moment, I have resorted to some bog standard countersunk wood screws just to get them fitted, but ideally would like to replace them with the fittings that came with the handles.
I have found a drill guide on the Axminster website that I thought might help.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-drill-guide
Yeah, I should probably MTFU and do it by eye, but I know it will go wrong and I’ll have to buy a new door.
Anyone used one of those guides? Will it work?
The other option is to get some chrome plated wood screws & use them instead, but that feels like cheating.
If that drill guide actually works, I reckon it would get a lot of use….