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Accessible living · Small jobs, done in a day

Lever door handles

Round knobs swapped for levers, throughout the house. A small job that makes every door in it usable.

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One flat fee to find out what is wrong. You are told it on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and it comes off the job if you hire us. Read our Plain Terms

What the work is

A round knob needs grip and a twist. A lever needs neither. For anyone with arthritis, a weak hand, or full hands, that is the difference between a door that opens and one that does not.

It is a straightforward swap in most doors, and it is one of the cheapest changes on this whole list per unit of difference made.

We do the whole house at once because doing it one door at a time costs more in visits than in hardware.

What is included

  • Removing the existing hardware
  • Fitting levers to each door, keyed alike where you want that
  • Adjusting latches and strikes so every door closes properly
  • Taking the old hardware away

What is not

  • Doors that need the bore enlarging or the door rehung, which we will show you and quote
  • Smart or electronic locks
  • Repairing damaged door edges or frames

Do the latches at the same time

Half the doors in a house that has settled need the strike adjusting. New hardware on a misaligned latch feels no better than old hardware did, and adjusting them while we are there costs nothing extra.

What to ask anyone quoting this, us included

  • Will these fit the existing bores?
  • Are you adjusting the latches too?
  • Can they be keyed alike?

What we can show you in writing

Every line traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below.

  • One sentence in the federal standard covers every control in a building: operable with one hand, no tight grasping, pinching or twisting of the wrist, and no more than 5 pounds of force. Faucets, flush levers, tub and shower controls and door hardware all point back to that one sentence.1
  • The Access Board names round doorknobs and round shower controls outright: they take a full hand grip and a turn of the wrist. U-shaped pulls and lever handles pass, and so does a stationary knob shaped to be gripped loosely.1
  • Try every door in the house with a closed fist. The Access Board calls that a reliable test and says plainly that it is not the rule. It costs nothing and takes a minute, and it tells you which handles are worth changing before you call anybody.1
  • The published limit for pushing an interior door open is 5 pounds, and the advisory is specific that it means the continuous force to swing the door, not the shove needed to start it moving and not the force to retract the latch. A door that fights you is usually the latch or the hinges, not the door.1

Where this comes from

Every line above traces to a document we read in full. The number after a sentence points to the research below; hover it for the section. If you find a line wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say so.

  1. Accessible construction research, September 2026 Compiled from the US Access Board's ADA and ADAAG texts and the 1984 Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards, the Code of Federal Regulations, HUD's Fair Housing design guidance, the Utah Code, ASME and ASTM standard scopes, the Tile Council of North America on slip resistance, and the CDC and National Institute on Aging. 3 sections cited. Hover a number above for the section.

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