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I have a 2000 396 aft cabin. The outside of the door to the salon has a large handle to open and shut the sliding door. Unfortunately, the inside only has a small finger hole to open and close. I would like to install a stainless steel handle on the the inside of the door.

Has anyone installed a handle on the sliding door, and if so, can you provide some recommendations or dos and don'ts to guide me. I am assuming I would just drill some holes in the door for the handle but drilling holes always causes me concerns.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Tom Gebler

My wife bought a large handle that mounts with suction cups. It works great and no holes to drill.
I believe it was listed as a shower safety handle.

Thanks for the suggestion.

tomschauer wrote:Source of the post My wife bought a large handle that mounts with suction cups. It works great and no holes to drill.
I believe it was listed as a shower safety handle.

That's a great suggestion so you could try different positions of the handle before you ended up drilling into the door to permanently mount something.

I bought two of those to use while cleaning the boat hull from the dingy. Makes it easy for someone to hold onto the boat while the other person does the scrubbin'. I've use them for a lot of other things too. Very handy to have.

Not that bad looking either. The OP might find it's a permanent solution!

Here's one example:

Similar to the one we have. Ours is black and stainless. Looks pretty decent. Plus if you need to open the door all the way, it pops off easily.

Thanks again for the suggestion. I looked the handles on Amazon. Several of the handles offered have reviews which suggest they might not hold for any period of time or not at all. Do you have a particular model which was effective on a sliding door?

The wife said she got ours at bed bath and beyond.
It holds very well.
I remove it to clean the door a couple times a year. Other than that, I don't remember it coming loose more than once or twice total in the last three years, and even then, it seems its just one on the cups comes loose, flip up the handle and flip back down. Good to go a couple more months.

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/ ... gy=pdp_cav

I think this is it.

Thanks again. I am going to give this a try before I start drilling holes in the door. Doesn't seem like there i much to lose (other than the price). I will let you know how it works.