No one is immune from unpleasant and unexpected situations; the most unexpected moments often happen on the doorstep of your home. It’s easy to imagine a situation where the front door is jammed or the key to the front door is lost, and it’s impossible to get into the apartment.
Considering that the modern front door has a difficult lock, it is unlikely that you will be able to open it yourself, no matter how hard you try, so the only option left is to call a specialist to help solve the problem.
What to do with a broken cylinder lock
You can repair the cylinder lock yourself. The weakest element of such a structure is its core. It most often fails. It cannot be repaired, and even an inexperienced person can replace it.
The procedure for removing a broken cylinder from a cylinder lock:
- A key is inserted into the lock hole;
- The side strip attached to the end part of the door leaf is unscrewed;
- The screw that holds the cylinder is unscrewed. It is located near the crossbar;
- The key is turned slightly, pushed towards itself and the cylinder is removed from the lock.
Next, the unusable cylinder must be used as a sample in order to purchase a similar one in the store with a new set of keys. Installation of the product is carried out in the reverse order.
Contact the industrial climber service to open the door
Safe entrance doors are often supplemented with class 4 locks and anti-burglary mechanisms that are impossible for even a professional to handle. Industrial climbers can come to the rescue, who can quickly safely hang equipment from the roof of the house and go down to the window or onto the balcony. If they are glazed, it doesn’t matter - these craftsmen are able to open any locks that are installed on plastic or aluminum structures.
Industrial climbers will quickly come to the rescue and open the door from the inside, entering the apartment through a window or balcony
This service costs a little more than a lock opening service, but it is quite effective if the door is simply slammed shut.
The key cannot be inserted into the keyhole
Most often, this situation is faced by homeowners who have been subject to a break-in or attempted break-in. It is possible that there was sabotage or pranks of children who filled the well with some substance.
A common reason for locking a lock is children's pranks or vandalism.
In this case, you will have to open the door lock with the help of professionals or hack it.
How quickly can a specialist solve the problem and open the door?
Specialists arrive on call as soon as possible and open the front door within 20-60 minutes, depending on the complexity of the lock and the type of breakdown. The only thing you need from the property owner is to confirm that he is one. Usually a passport with registration at this address is sufficient. If you don’t have the document with you, you will need autopsy witnesses and a local police officer - these people will confirm that the actions to open the front door are legal and not of a criminal nature.
Sometimes two tools and five minutes are enough to open the front door
If the arriving master does not ask for documents, then you should think about whether he really is a specialist.
For what reasons might you accidentally slam a door?
Login access may be restricted for many reasons. Among them:
- Sloppyness. When you accidentally close the door yourself.
- Powerful draft in the entrance.
- An unusual lock, which is designed in such a way that it can slam shut without outside help.
If during interaction with the doors it turns out that they are closed, then do not act on your own. Call the experts. They will help you cope with the situation with ease, and the doors will be open in a short period of time.
What can you do to urgently open the door to your apartment?
The problem when it is impossible to get into the house sometimes terrifies us, and if there is a small child there or soup is being cooked on the stove, this is an emergency, so we immediately call the Ministry of Emergency Situations. There is no phone at hand, we turn to our neighbors and ask for help. Rescuers will arrive quickly, but if there is a threat to people’s safety, they will not stand on ceremony at the front door. At a minimum, you will have to change the lock, and at most the entire box, but people’s lives will be saved.
Rescuers will quickly open the front door, but do not guarantee the integrity of the structure
This problem often arises due to our lack of foresight and we ourselves are to blame for it, so we need to remember a few solutions that will come in handy in an emergency.
Extreme measures
If independent experiments did not work or worsened the situation, you need to get into the house urgently, but there is no time to wait for the master, then radical measures are needed:
- Knock down the door. This action will require a lot of physical strength, but even so, the door may not open;
- cut the hinges, but for this you will have to ask a friend of yours for a grinder with a metal disc, and if you don’t have such friends, then buy this tool in a store;
- completely cut out the entire lock with a drill and a metal drill, but after such fraud the door will be seriously damaged.
How can you prevent the problem so that you don’t have to open the door without a key?
As a rule, the lock does not lock immediately; the mechanism begins to warn by slightly jamming and getting the key stuck in the hole long before an unpleasant situation occurs. It is worth paying attention to this: lubricate the metal elements or replace the structure.
If you lubricate your locks regularly, their normal functionality will last much longer.
If there is no need to lock the interior doors, there is no need to install latches on the leaves; it is better to limit yourself to a regular handle. Modern hardware manufacturers offer a lot of beautiful options without locking mechanisms. To avoid calling emergency services, it makes sense to make friends with your neighbors and leave spare keys with them in case the front door slams. But the main thing in such a situation is not to panic. There will always be people ready to help or special services that are created to quickly open any door.
How to open an interior door yourself without a key
Typically, such canvases are equipped with rotary or push handles, which have a latch on one side and a keyhole on the other. It is quite possible to open an interior door on your own. For this, a small piece of wire, a manicure file, a sharp knife or scissors may be useful. The main thing is that the tool can be partially inserted into the keyhole.
To open the interior door yourself, you can use any available tool.
After inserting the tip of a metal object into the hole, you need to press it a little and make circular movements: first in one direction, then in the other. Sooner or later the lock cylinder will give in and the door will open. Only after such manipulations will it be better to change the latch to a regular handle.
