Changing handles on furniture

raler

Hi,

My wife and i are looking at a buying a particular sideboard for the house but the only thing stopping us are the handles on it. Sounds like a small thing but the handles look a bit daft on this otherwise nice piece of furniture.

The points connected to the actual handle part, connected to the sideboard itself, are a few inches apart, not sure what. Point is, does anyone know if it's easy enough to replace a handle, do they come in enough shapes and sizes that a replacement of the same size will be easy enough to find ?

Cheers,
Rob

Alun

Handles are usually just fastened with a bolt that screws into the fitting from inside the drawer or door. Back when I was looking at these things, the distance between centres was usually 64, 96 or 128mm for some reason, so if you can get in to measure the distance between the two bolt heads inside a door or drawer (not the width of the handle itself) you should then be able to see if it fits into one of these standard sizes.

The only two snags you might run into are ..

1) the bolts supplied are too long for the thickness of the door / drawer you're fastening them on to. Either cut the bolts to size with a hacksaw or just buy some shorter ones.

2) the holes left when you take the old handles off might be too small for the bolts that come with the new handles. Only option here is to drill the holes out to the required diameter.

raler

Smashing, thats just the info I was looking for. Thanks a lot.

Rob