The latch broke on the landing cupboard recently. It's got the same handles as all the other doors but there was a nasty noise when I turned the handle and the latch didn't release the door. Luckily you can see the latch when it's closed so I used a pick to pull the latch back and open the door. I disassembled it today and the mechanism had shattered. My plan was to go and buy a new latch and hopefully it would just be like for like and easily replaced. But then while thinking about it I wondered why the door has a latch at all, and for that matter why does it have a handle on the inside? Things were a bit rushed when we built the house but I went to the expense of buying the handles and the latch and paying for them to be fitted when all it needed was a handle and maybe a magnet to hold it closed. I can't remember talking about that door so maybe the chippy did the work without asking and we didn't even question it until it because a problem. Maybe that's why there's a cheap latch on there...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We’ve had the new smart meters for a couple of years now … marvellous. Not a problem at all. We were without electricity and gas for only a very short period of time and they’ve been very efficient since. 😊
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British Gas was fined £3.37m last month by regulator, Ofgem, for failing
to meet smart meter installation targets. One of the problems is a
nationwide shortage of qualified installers
Sounds like they need to offer me an incentive to fit the meter then
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The latch broke on the landing cupboard recently. It's got the same handles as all the other doors but there was a nasty noise when I turned the handle and the latch didn't release the door. Luckily you can see the latch when it's closed so I used a pick to pull the latch back and open the door. I disassembled it today and the mechanism had shattered. My plan was to go and buy a new latch and hopefully it would just be like for like and easily replaced. But then while thinking about it I wondered why the door has a latch at all, and for that matter why does it have a handle on the inside? Things were a bit rushed when we built the house but I went to the expense of buying the handles and the latch and paying for them to be fitted when all it needed was a handle and maybe a magnet to hold it closed. I can't remember talking about that door so maybe the chippy did the work without asking and we didn't even question it until it because a problem. Maybe that's why there's a cheap latch on there...
I've just put a Bales catch on there but I've got to adjust the original plate to get it to close a bit tighter. It's fine for now though. The Bales catches are a bit quieter than the rollers so we can use the cupboard without risking waking the kids.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
We used roller catches on our downstairs doors in a previous house, when the girls were small, because we had doorknobs rather than handles, and they couldn't turn them if they needed to go upstairs to the loo as they were too stiff. Much easier until they were big enough to manage the doors, but I think we left them anyway.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When I moved into a house which had been home to lively small twins, I noticed that all the doors had lever handles, except the door to the parents’ bedroom which had a large knob 😉
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sounds like they need to offer me an incentive to fit the meter then
Mine is excellent.
Possibly use something like this https://www.toolstation.com/adjustable-roller-catch/p45713 instead of the conventional latch which needs the handle to release the latch?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.