How to open the interior door, if it is slammed, and the lock is locked

At first glance, the comical situation - clicked and the lock does not open inside the apartment - it can be a serious problem if the room is smallchild or blocked access to the bathroom. There are several ways how to open the interior door, if it is slammed shut.

To the doors inside the room there are no strict requirements, as to the entrance. Nevertheless, they are also supplied with locks and latches. First of all, it's the door to the toilet and the bathroom. Often locks are installed at the entrance to the bedroom, study, kitchen and balcony, especially if the house has small children or animals. And although such locks are not as complex as at the entrance to the apartment, opening them without a key is not easy. But before knocking out the door, it is worth trying to unlock the constipation.

Lock with latch

Recently, for use in the apartment, door locks have become very popular, with a locking mechanism on the one hand in the handle and a latch on the other hand, also locking the lock. Such handles have an attractive appearance, and there is no need to additionally install a lock. But they have one drawback. If you accidentally turn the latch on the open door and then slam it, it will be locked. This can happen in any home, especially where there are small children. Cope with such a problem is quite possible.

• Usually, the interior door is installed in such a way that it opens into the corridor. In this case, you can cope with the problem with a thin flat object - a ruler, a knife blade, a flat screwdriver or a plastic card. The improvised "key" must be inserted into the gap between the door leaf and the box, at an angle, as if engaging the tongue from the inside, since its inclined side is on the side of the room. Carrying this object along the gap, while shaking the door leaf, we try to hook and squeeze the tongue of the lock.
• If the door opens into the room or the tongue can not be moved, check whether there is access to the bolts that secure the handle on the canvas( often the fasteners are only on one side).When the screws are removed, the handle should be removed with the locking mechanism, and then inserting the standard square or flat screwdriver into the lock, open it.
• In the case where the first two methods were not successful, you can drill a lock with a thick enough drill, then open the entrance by turning the knob.
• You can try to remember where the invisible fixing bolts( usually from the sides of the handle) are located, drill them, remove the handle and open the lock with a flat screwdriver.
• Collapse the outer handle with the adjustable wrench, remove the debris and unlock the lock as in the previous case.

How to open the door with other types of locks

Handles with automatic latches in the form of a key set on the door to the toilet or to the balcony. They can work if the door is slammed shut( for example, a draft).To unlock such locks, the designers provided a small hole below the handle. If you insert a knitting needle, a nail or an awl and insert it, the latch will open.

In old houses, locks with a lever mechanism survived. If for some reason the door is closed and the key is inserted into the well from the other side, then it can be obtained in the manner described in the old detectives. Under the door, you need to slip a sheet of paper, gently push out the key and get it out by pulling the paper out.

If the modern plastic door to the balcony is slammed and does not open with a handle, then turn the decorative strip to 90 °, unscrew the fixing bolts and remove the handle. Then open the lock by acting directly on the locking mechanism.

Cardinal measures of unlocking interior doors

If a wooden door to the toilet, bathroom or balcony can not be opened, then you will have to resort to more serious methods, and try to damage as little as possible the door leaf.

• Inspect the hinges. If it is possible to carefully remove or knock out the inner rod. Then the door can be opened "in the opposite direction", that is, from the canopies.
• Remove the clypeus and cut down a small part of the box, where there is a metal lining for the deadbolt( tongue) of the lock.
• Insert the ax or nail into the slot between the box and the liner, press the door so that the lock is out of gear with the box.

It is clear that after using such methods, the door is likely to have to be repaired.

Prevention measures

You must take care in advance to avoid being in a similar situation. To do this:

• The spare keys from all doors must be provided with tags, indicating which door they open, folded into a box or bag and put in a secluded place that is not locked with a key( mezzanine in the corridor, upper shelf in the pantry, wardrobe in the hallway).
• Install in the apartment locks, which provide the possibility of emergency opening from the outside( usually - a pin or plate).
• If the lock on the doors is needed only from pets or against drafts, it is advisable to limit the installation of conventional latches. On the installed lock handles, the rotary latch can be switched off. To do this, unscrew the handle with the lock and shorten or remove the plate that connects the lock to the latch.