Go Back  DoItYourself.com Community Forums > Interior Improvement Center > Doors, Skylights and Windows
Reload this Page >

I need to install a latch on an interior wooden sliding door

I need to install a latch on an interior wooden sliding door


  #1  
Old 12-22-19, 10:49 AM
D
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 240
Upvotes: 0
Received 0 Upvotes on 0 Posts
Question I need to install a latch on an interior wooden sliding door

I need an easy-install latch for an interior sliding door. I need to put it on without boring any holes for set-in hardware. It all needs to be attached to the surface of the door and the surface of where the door goes into vertically where it closes. I need to be able to latch it from the outside when I leave, and from the inside when I come in. The only purpose of the latch is to keep a 10lb. male cat from opening the sliding door, which lets the heat out.
 
  #2  
Old 12-22-19, 11:02 AM
XSleeper's Avatar
Group Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 27,061
Received 1,910 Upvotes on 1,716 Posts
With the constraints you've put on it about all you could do is use Velcro tape on the door and jamb.
 
2john02458 voted this post useful.
  #3  
Old 12-22-19, 11:22 AM
J
Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: USA
Posts: 4,463
Received 128 Upvotes on 113 Posts
Got a picture so we can see what your seeing?
 
  #4  
Old 12-22-19, 11:35 AM
H
Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: USA
Posts: 2,311
Received 296 Upvotes on 254 Posts
A shoelace, 2 push-pins and a staple gun.
 
  #5  
Old 12-23-19, 04:44 PM
W
Member
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: San Diego Ca. USA
Posts: 984
Upvotes: 0
Received 13 Upvotes on 11 Posts
Hi, a piece of 1/4 plywood about 30" High and 4" wider than the door. Put on the side of the door where the cat is and use 2 one gallon jugs of water on the floor to hold the ply wood in place. Works for me.
Good Luck Woodbutcher
 
  #6  
Old 12-24-19, 04:00 AM
Marq1's Avatar
Member
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: USA MI
Posts: 9,745
Received 1,210 Upvotes on 1,098 Posts
the latch is to keep a 10lb. male cat from opening the sliding door
Hmm

without boring any holes
So that means the door would have two independent latches, meaning you could be on the wrong side of the door with no way to unlatch!

How about some magnets to add some greater opening force!
 
 

Thread Tools
Search this Thread
 
Ask a Question
Question Title:
Description:
Your question will be posted in: