Any mechanism can break sooner or later, especially if the owner prefers not to notice the guarding preventions and failures in his work. The door lock is not an exception, once having come home after work, you can find out that you cannot open an entrance door. The situation not rare and is better to be prepared in the matter. To call the mechanic – process not always convenient and fast. Therefore it is necessary most to know how to dig out the lock if jammed a door.
How to open a door if the lock broke?
At first we will consider types of locks, the choice of a method of a solution depends on a design of the mechanism. Cylinder locks reckon with a larva as the most widespread inside. Malfunctions of such lock can be divided into three categories:
- the key got stuck in the lock and it cannot be pulled out;
- the key broke, and its part remained in the lock;
- the key is normally inserted and taken out, but does not turn;
- the key with a scratch is turned, but the lock does not open.
If the key got stuck in the lock, then it means that the mechanics is broken – pins which blocked a key dropped out. Such problem can try to be solved by means of easy rocking of a key accurately to remove the details which jammed a key. It is possible to apply lubricant of WD-40 type, lubricating oil or kerosene. But to open the door lock at such breakage, it is possible only by means of the expert or by opening of the lock. If to there is no opportunity at present to call the mechanic, then it is possible to try to take out a key flat-nose pliers or to take out a lock larva by means of a drill and a drill. In that case it is necessary to change either all lock, or a larva.
How to dig out the jammed door if the key broke, it is possible to try to use the fret saw. The thin edge of the fret saw needs to be pushed accurately to the well from a bottom side so that teeth was up. By means of simple manipulation it is possible to pick up teeth a fragment of a key and to pull out it. If you have a spare key and the mechanism of the lock is not damaged, then it can use further. If to pull out this way a fragment it did not turn out, then it is necessary to pull out a larva by means of a drill.
How to open an interroom door?
With locks of interroom doors, bathrooms and balcony doors the similar problem can also couple. For the answer to a question how to open the closed door to the bedroom or the bathroom, it is worth remembering a method with a hairpin or a large paper clip. At once it is worth making a reservation that he demands patience and the hardness of a hand. For opening of the lock it is possible to use the hairpin broken in half, a firm paper clip or two pieces of a wire.
To the well of the lock it is necessary to enter accurately a hairpin into all its depth, the second part it is necessary to try to remove pins then to turn the first as a key. If it is impossible to open the lock in such a way, then it is possible to delay as much as possible a door, to carry out a wire through a crack and to try to remove a lock uvula.
With the same purpose it is possible to use any flat and narrow subject – a table knife, a thin chisel or even a piece of strong plastic. Having inserted the tool into a crack in the location of a uvula, it is necessary to incline it towards the door handle and to press it. Having felt as the tool slides on a uvula, it is necessary to try to remove a latch that it left in the lock.
To answer a question how to open a plastic balcony door, it is necessary to consider from what party of a balcony you are. If you were locked outside, then it is possible to take out accurately by means of make-shifts a double-glazed window and to reach the internal handle of the lock. If the door does not open from within, then it is necessary to remove the handle and to reach the lock mechanism. Repair will depend on the nature of breakage and the brand of the lock, information on it can be found on internal details.
It is important to remember that all locks need periodic cleaning and lubricant. If the key begins to creak in the lock, so it needs prevention.
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