To unlock a locked door without a key, follow these seven methods in ascending order of destruction.
Force the card between the lock and the frame, flush against the frame. Bend it back, forcing the lock back into the door. If there’s no room between the lock and the frame, force it between the door and the frame above the lock, then swipe quickly downward while angling the card toward the frame. Insert the card between the lock and door frame, then bend the card back to force the lock open.
For an interior door with a small hole in the handle, use a small screwdriver to unlock it.
Pick the lock using specialist lock picking tools or a tension wrench. Place tension on the lock by rotating it in the direction you would turn the key to unlock it.
Unlock a door from the outside by inserting a paperclip into a hole and pressing firmly to release it.
Use pins, credit cards, knives, or other tools to turn the lock and push the pins up. Jiggle to and turn until the lock opens.
Slide something narrow down above the latch between the door and the jamb, such as a credit card or metal ruler. Come down at about a 45° angle and it should be unlocked.
For simple push-button doorknob situations, all you need is a paperclip to regain access.
In summary, unlocking a locked door without a key is a quick and easy method that can help you get back into your room without causing any damage. Using pins, credit cards, or knives can also help you unlock the door.
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I just want to say a big thank you 🙏🏾. I was up and about to get ready for work when I turned the bathroom door and the horror. So this was at 6:00 so naturally I headed to YouTube now at first I was a bit sceptical ” this is what they do in the movies,it’s not going to work” so I still persevered and bam I’m now a professional door unlocker. All thanks to your beautiful article. God bless you. 🙏🏾🙋🏽♀️ much love from Australia 🇦🇺
I opened our locked bedroom at midnight. Thank you so much for this article. You explained very well. It would have been very difficult during lockdown due to corona pandemic here in India to find someone to open the lock. A tip- USE A THIN BUT STIFF SHEET OF PLASTIC. I used a piece from empty fruits container. I found card to thick to pass through the gap. Hope someone else finds it useful in crisis.
Also be aware of weather stripping on outside doors. Sometimes if you pull doors that have weather stripping you can get the little pin to pop out because weather stripping has give. Great if your worried about getting locked out but kind of defeats the point of the lock. Maybe if there is a harder stop near the lock you can mitigate it but I’m not a pro, just someone who played around with their door as a kid.
Thank you so much for such an amazing technique. I had been trying the other way firstly that made us fail to unlock and waste our time. Finally, I found this article and watched only until showing water bottle plastic card by you. Then I tried to adopt it and eventually our door was unlocked within a few minutes. Thanks again. 🙂🙂🙂
I’ve always thought the dead lock plunger is a bad design. Doors shift and sag and striker plates wear pretty quickly, and the plunger requires a tight tolerance to function correctly. That’s the reason they often don’t work correctly. There are other designs that are less common but much more reliable.
Many years ago, a little while after my family moved into a new (to us) house we found some fresh scrapes from where someone had tried to jimmy the back door open. It just had a latch. My parents called a locksmith who installed a deadbolt. No problems with that since then. FWIW the front door already had a deadbolt built in.
One of my school’s locks were similar. Teacher was late so I opened the classroom door. She thought it was unlocked, I told her I opened it. She didn’t believe me, locked me out, and I got back in with my school ID card. Never knew about that pin, so thanks. I will definitely ensure my doors are secure.
Very helpful, thank you 🙂 Funniest thing, a few years back my neighbor’s 9 year old daughter knocked on my door asking if she could borrow a credit card to let herself into her house. She had accidentally locked herself out & her mom wouldn’t be home for a few hours. She explained that her mom’s boyfriend had taught her how to use a card to unlock doors. 😳! Shows you how easy this trick must be. (Gave her an expired card but it was too thick to do the job. We called her mom at work, who promptly came home to let her in. And she was not very happy about having to do it, needless to say.)
You saved my life. I had to go out and I locked my door so that my parents don’t find out and when I got back I realized that I had no keys for my door and I started freaking out. After perusal this article and doing what you said I opened the door and now I don’t have to worry about my parents finding out that I snuck out. Thank you very much!
See that 3/4 inch piece of trim tacked to the 2×4? That’s there to prevent the Credit Card Tick from working. It only works when it is actually GLUED to that 2×4. And then only long enough for my Sharpened Butterknife to cut through the Glue (Or paint). Follow this man’s advice! And while you’re at it, walk through the house looking for unlocked windows.
Me and my crew were perusal this article, it seems that when the striker plate is securely anchored, the deadbolt is tight and straight it makes it hard to enter the premises without a standard adjoining key complimentary of the entire locking package you get at your local Ace Hardware store. We solved this little Dilemma by purchasing an all purpose master key equipped with steel,wood,sheetrock,and all purpose multi-functional blades, sawz all comes in quite handy for those hard to reach locks, 🤣🤣😂👍
Thanks for showing everyone how to open a locked door, I just hope it’s not mine haha! How do you fix it if that little tongue thing is popped out? How do you get it to be inside where it’s supposed to be? If those 2 diagrams with the screwdriver in one shows how to fix it, I don’t understand the diagrams, can’t work them out
I prevented my army barracks door from being opened with one simple trick. I had a 4 person barracks room on the third floor while at Fort Bliss, El Paso. We smoked pot and drank a lot. There were double bunk beds on one side of the room and double bunk beds on the other. On the ceiling was a light. I tied a string to the light and a roach clip to the other end. The string was just long enough where all four of us could could get a hit off the rolled up pot cigarette and then sling it to the other side of the room. No one had to get up. But back to the door lock. All doors had locks on them but the officer on duty had a master key. I didn’t want anyone opening the door while we were smoking pot or drinking booze we bought in Juarez. So I thought of sticking a straight pin inside the lock hole. You couldn’t see it because it became recessed when I stuck it in. No matter how many times a person attempted to insert a key they failed. And even if they could figure out a way to enter the room the straight pin gave us plenty of time to get rid of the pot and booze. We could just throw it out the 3rd floor window. But it never got to that point. At the end of our drinking and smoking pot I’d get up and open the door and use a magnet and it easily pulled the straight pin out of the door lock. For the 2 years stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso I never had one intrusion. One night we picked up a English girl from a Juarez bar called the Kentucky Club on the man strip through Juarez and we brought her back to the barracks.
The plunger check is great. Thanks. For us, an interior door has a lock, outside – in, The outer side has a small hole, and from the stretching out of the hole on part that covers the insides of the door knob. I think I found that hole is for water drainage to prevent freeze damage. I think we can ignore, or do you think there is an issue here? . Thanks! Alan
And if you do install your locks correctly, the skill you need to learn is GLASS REPLACEMENT so that you can quickly, cheaply, and easily replace the pane of glass that you had to break in order to get in through a window after having locked yourself out of your house… Been there, done that, got the t-shirt… 🙁
I tried this at my neighbor’s house who was unable to get into one of the interior rooms even with the right key. Nothing worked, credit cards, paper clips, screwdrivers. Finally, we used a power recip saw to cut off the handle at the base, then use a drill to remove the two rivets. But we got the door open without damaging it, just needed a $20 new door lock. Never able to figure why the lock jammed in the first place 😅
I had a brand new house built and the far quits installed the dead-locks and the normal pathetic doorknob/locks incorrectly. Three external door and all the locks (6 of them) were done wrong. One dead-lock was screw/torqued up so tight that the bolt would not slide when the key was used. Really annoying when the new building cost a little over $250,000 just over 27 years ago. I was also stunned when the windows arrived with plastic locks on them. Thank you for this article. It taught me something that I didn’t know so it is greatly appreciated.
I forgot my keys in my pants yesterday now I’m here. There’s a wood frame blocking the door side so I can’t just slide the card. I did bend the card for it to fit in and slide it on the top where I can push the door a little for the card to go through the side of the door took me 3 hours to get in. Btw thank you!
A college I visit upgraded their door locks with electronic access locks and totally compromised the security by not replacing the door strike plates. While I was there I was told they had things disappearing from the science labs and I showed them I could get into any of the rooms with an allen wrench hooked around the latch.
i actually…had the opposite side happen, haha, i had a new door installed on my room, and locked it for pricacy sake for the first time, then, i went to unlock the door to use the restroom, and to my hooror, as i felt like i was about to piss myself….the twist to unlock the door, on the handle, was…stuck/jammed…it wouldnt unlock…. i was trapped in my own room need to use the restroom immediately…. kepy fiddling with it for many minuites, finally got it to unlcok thank god… thats what brought me to this article but, yeah, what can i do if that ever happens again?
that is the reason why in germany the locking mechanism is seperated from the latch and is a 2 step lock. you can lock it twice while once is already enough to lock the door. the second time just extents the dead bolt even further and you can only pull out the key if the deadbolt is in position where it can’t be moved by pressing on it.
Hi Robert! I am in the minority I think bc I do not want to be able to get into my locked doors. And I Absolutely don’t want The wrong ppl getting in my house or doors that are locked inside my house. I have deadbolts too, even on my inside doors that I want securely locked, & not just locked as a courtesy warning that the room is occupied. I got some new locks & thought OK I know the trick so now let’s really fix it! No kidding new locks, all the right installation gadgets & hours later & I still cannot get that stupid plunger to stay in when it hits the plate on door frame! Please🙏 help! I’m losing my sense of sanity! Lol 😆…. Is there a trick to measuring that I haven’t come across? If I can pop the bottom locks in under 1 sec, why pay more for a lock, which are close to double in cost compared to the same without a lock? Any tips would be great bc I haven’t found much of anything in guidance as to how to actually install correctly so that plunger will stay in upon closing it. My deadbolts work great though! Lol