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To change door furniture you will firstly need to remove the old locks and handle.

1. You may need to cut or trim the door because from experience you can not always get a door to fit your frame exactly-using a plane or saw.

2. Fit the hinges by :laying the door on the floor

Mark the outline of the hinges hinges onto the door.

3. Using a chisel remove the marked outline to the same thickness of the hinge

4. Screw hinge into position.

5.Mark position of door locks using a template drawn by tracing the shape of the lock onto a piece of paper marking out the holes for the handle barrel and the key hole.

6.place the traced drawing onto the door where you want the lock to be.

7.Mark the depth on the lock and mark the position of the keyhole and handle barrel

8. Use a bradawl to mark the position of the holes

9. Place the lock on the front of the door with the plate on the front of the door,mark out the diagram of the plate.

10. Drill out the hole for the lock to fit into.

11. Fit lock into hole screw into place.

Changing door locks and hinges

Repairing wooden frames

A rotten door frame should be repaired or replaced if the old one is beyond repair.External frames are more prone to this because of the effects of weathering

1. Make a 45 degree cut above the rotten section.

2.test surrounding area to make sure that you have cut out all the rotten wood

3. Prise the rotten section away from the frame.

4. Cut a new piece to match the cut out section at 45 degrees

5. Glue the two cut ends together and screw the new piece to the existing post.

6. Treat wood with primer or stain.

This is the same process with rotten window frames