Replacing door furniture

I am SO cross! All I want to do is replace the scratched and half painted door handles with new door handles - of EXACTLY the same size........but screw holes etc are in a very very slightly position. How do I get around this downright greedy commercial dictate????

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When this happened to me I just bought handles with a bigger back plate, big enough to cover the old holes and the bit where the old handles had been. They're usually more expensive but worth it as they make such a difference.
I get your drift though about moving the holes a bit if you want the same handles, that's why they're in business - to take more of our money !!..

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Commiserations Lindy , after 30 years in this house I finally got around to changing 8 sets of door handles last year.

I carefully measured the old handles but all the new ones I looked at were wider with 4 holes instead of 3 . I had to drill new holes in all the doors ,very tedious.

It's the same with many things, curtain plastic runners and hooks drive me mad, I have a draw full of obsolete ones where a few have broken and can't be replaced meaning I have to replace the lot

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Thanks both.........if I really needed to, I guess I could just about drill new holes, but I'm sure they would encroach on the new holes making one huge, unusable hole!!! I'm having a laminate floor laid tomorrow and the man quoted me £65 for fitting various bits of door furniture - NOT including this latest discovery! I'm down with a heavy cold and after falling off my ladder a week ago and on heavy-duty pain relief, can't think straight, let alone drill a straight hole!! Very tempted to stick to the horrible scratched and ukky chrome!!

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Lindy I had to fill in the old holes on one side of the fittings where the new holes were going to be very close and it was fine I used a good quality ready mixed filler.

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Meg - can you confirm that if you put filler in the old holes, you can still drill through.........if the new holes encroached on the old holes?? This is getting to be a holy discussion!!

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Oh dear, you're not really in the best frame of mind for fiddling around with these kind of problems. Maybe get yourself better and think about it more, then?
Good luck whatever you decide.

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Can you get the old handles replated?

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Thanks again........replating would probably cost half a fortune. I'm at the mercy of the floor laminator layer man tomorrow.......I foresee loadsofdosh!!!

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Google a company called Chrome Fix.