Installers typically drill the hole centered 36 inches above the floor if not specifically instructed to do so differently.
Interior door handle height.
The height of the door handle is not so much the problem as the door handle itself.
Exceptions to the rule include doors that provide egress into swimming pools or other water features.
This facilitates access since mobility aids including wheelchair footrests are sometimes used to push or prop open doors.
General requirements for access recommends that door handles of all types should be installed at a height not less than 900mm and not more than 1100mm above the plane of the finished floor.
The other is 1965mm high with the handle at 1015mm from door and floor.
Most doors for home installation are 80 inches tall and door handles are generally placed on the door three feet from the floor.
One door is 1980mm high with the centre of the handle at 1040mm from the bottom of the door and 1060mm from the floor when the door is shut.
Simply they must be installed in such a way that at the time of opening or closing the interior door there would be no inconvenience.
As it turned out there is no certain standard for height at which the handles should be attached to interior doors.
Personally i think it looks weird.
The australian standard as 1428 1 design for access and mobility part 1.
The international building code has established doorknob height between 34 and 48 inches above a finished floor.
A few exceptions are included in the bill.
The height of the door handle must be between a minimum of 34 and a maximum of 48.
Both handles are 80mm above the top of the cross rail and they both feel too high when i use them.
Door hardware ada compliant locks exit devices handles pulls latches and other operable parts on doors shall comply operable parts of such hardware shall be 34 inches minimum and 48 inches maximum above the finish floor or ground.
