Fitting Guides

Our fitting guides contain an abundance of advice and guidance on how to fit our hardware with real examples of From The Anvil products. Browse at your leisure to gain a deeper understanding about fitting your hardware.

Butt Hinges

In this guide, we teach you how to fix butt hinges to a door, and how to fix our butt hinges to a door frame.

Lever Handles

Learn to fit our lever latch handles to a door. This guide can also be used as a template for fitting other types of lever handles.

Mortice Latch

This guide explains how to fit a heavy duty tubular mortice latch but is applicable to a range of mortice latches.

Door Knockers

Read this guide to learn how to fit a surface-fixed door knocker to a standard wooden door.

T Hinges

Discover the method for fitting our T hinges to ledge & braced doors, plus how to fix the doors to a frame.

Thumblatches

Learn how to fit a standard thumblatch to a ledge and braced door to add functionality and aesthetic value.

Door CLosers

Our range of door closers offer a practical solution for commercial and public buildings that require fire/draught resistance.

Oak Box Lock

In this guide, we teach you how to fit our oak box locks to your door to offer stylish and insurance-rated security.

Traditional Letterbox

Read this guide to learn how to fit our traditional letterbox to a timber door.

T bar (B2B fixings)

Learn how to fit our T bar pull handles with back-to-back fixings (allows a single handle to be fitted on either side of a door).

T bar (bolt fix)

Learn how to fit our T bar pull handles with bolt-through fixings (allows a pull handle to be bolted from the inside of your door).

T bar (secret fix)

Learn how to fit our T bar pull handles with back-to-back fixings (allows a pull handle to be fitted without visible bolts).

Concealed Lever on Rose

In this guide we teach you how to fit a lever on rose handle with a concealed rose to hide the fixing screws.

Concealed Escutcheon

We explain how to fit a concealed escutcheon to provide protection for your keyhole while concealing all fixing screws.

Concealed thumbturn

Discover how to fit a concealed thumbturn to operate your bathroom door while hiding all fixing screws.

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