so i went to close the door and i did not realize
that the door wouldn't open again so look look look what happens when i open this.
it is going nowhere and i know it's a nightmare when this happens because you don't know,
do i have to bust open this door, do i need to do something to this door, like do i need
to destroy the door, do i need to call locksmith. we'll find out. in this video we're going to show
you the good stuff. see how to open a stuck door using a tim hortons cup find out why our
door wouldn't open and whether this method will work on locked doors. so i'm locked out
and i'm on the outside of the door so there's no way for me to unscrew this knob. so i'm going to
use this tim horton's cup that i've cut out and i cut it out in this shape. it's rounded and i'm
going to be pushing it through. you want something that's very flexible. cardboard may not work but
you can try that too. it's shaped like this so that it should curve into this door jamb here.
you might have to push into the door a little bit to make more space for this to go through. and you
kind of have to keep pushing it in a little. it might take a while to get used to it. i've wedged
the corner in first and now you should be able to kind of keep pushing it in. keep watching it.
and move it up and down.
you want to line it up with the door knob because the latch or bolt is around here.
and there you go. all done. took a while but as you can see this thing got beat up.
but it was able to wedge in and get in between the door, the strike plate and
the latch or the bolt. so basically what it looks like is when you're wedging it in here it goes
through and then pushes in between the latch and the strike plate to allow the door to open. in the
case where it's stuck and closed like this. you can't open the door. if you're on the inside, if
you have the tools and you have screwdrivers you can probably remove the handle. normally behind
this plate there's going to be screws that you can undo. different doors are different. different
knobs are different so some will be exposed, you can just undo the screws and take out the door
knob and inside will be the neck mechanism that you can pull to release the bolt or latch. now,
for this particular knob you will have to remove the handle first. then once it's removed you can
take the plate off easily. it'll come right off and then you can access the screws behind there.
one thing to note. if you come over here. this is where that...
it's a hex nut that you need to unscrew. once this is unscrewed this handle comes right off. if you
can't access this or let's say you're locked in the room and you don't have screwdrivers to
remove this. get a credit card that's the thinner type. if you have or a piece of plastic
that's a card shape. cut it like this. okay we're gonna go from the top slide down,
pull. there you go. see. if you cut it narrow enough it should fit like this when you put it in.
and then all you're doing is you're just pulling it like this.
it pulls it and it opens it like that. as you can see, when the door closes this bolt or
latch is what keeps it from opening, right. so it keeps it in place, but when you turn the knob all
the way it should be flush against the door like this, but it's not. it's not installed properly,
it's not functioning properly so that's what caused our problem where we turned the knob
and we couldn't open the door. seeing how easy it was to open this door, you have to note that these
methods don't work on all doors. especially doors with a deadlock plunger. here's how they work.
here's the latch for the door. in this case you see this latch also has a deadlock plunger
and how this works is that normally when you have the strike plate and you close the door.
when the door is closed and the plunger is depressed, you can't press the latch in
manually without turning the doorknob all the way, right. so this helps prevent attacks or
methods of trying to press this in to open the door. now if the door is installed incorrectly
or the strike plate is installed incorrectly, you might have a scenario where, in this case,
where the... where the plunger goes through as well. in that case, then this kind of attack still
works. you can still unlock, open the door by using this method as you can see this now allows
you to press this fully in. it's strange that we were able to open this door using this method,
since it has a deadlock plunger which is supposed to prevent this. i guess the latch and stripe
plate are not installed properly on this door. if you get into a situation like us where the door is
stuck then give our methods a try as it just might work even if the door has a deadlock plunger. and
if the door is not locked but a deadlock plunger is getting in the way, then perform one of our
methods while also having the doorknob turned open all the way. turning the door knob will cause the
latch and deadlock plunger to retract in enough to a point where the latch can be pushed manually.
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