How To Adjust Door Lock Strike Plate

To snug the door up you would move the strike plate toward the center of the door jamb.

How to adjust door lock strike plate.

Simple adjustment to stop rattling door noise on your interior doors. Step 5 remove the strike plate and change its location on the door jamb if the misalignment is too severe to correct otherwise. The stripped hole repair kit from king s original ha. How to adjust a door knob strike plate 1.

If your filing action is shaking the strike plate remove the plate and secure it in a vise for your repair. Close the door to check the repair. Bend the strike plate s latch pocket tab straight with the pliers. Insert either a triangular file or a flat file that s small enough to fit inside the strike plate.

File off enough metal to allow the latch to catch inside the plate and secure the door. File the striker plate. Move it away from the center if the strike will not seat when the door is closed. Need to drill a new hole really close to the original one.

Have a door out of alignment due to settling. Place one layer of masking tape across the strike plate then cut out the center. Use a screwdriver to loosen the screws slightly. For minor adjustments you may be able to loosen the plate and tap it in the direction you need.