what's going on guys i'm bill and
welcome to bills how to today i'm going
to show you guys how to open up a door
when the lock is faulty so if we turn
the lever here
doesn't do anything the mechanism on the
inside is faulty and for that reason the
latch is stuck
inside the strike plate and let's get
straight into it let's do this
all right guys so as i said lever is
faulty can't open up the door here
we're very lucky in this case here we
can get around to the backside
through the ensuite so i can show you
guys exactly what's going on
so if we have a look on the other side
here once again this lever does not work
at all same thing faulty mechanism and
that is a reason why it's actually stuck
inside the strike plate so if we have a
close look here between the door
and the strike plate you can probably
just see it there's a bit of sticky tape
that tells me that this strike the latch
has actually been
faulty for a while so what they decided
to do was put some sticky tape
over the latch sorry over the strike
plate
to prevent the latch from going in and
getting stuck obviously that hasn't
worked
latch is now stuck inside and we need to
get this door open
so there's a couple different ways that
we can do this obviously we're on the
inside of the room now
so i'm going to show you guys a quick
method that we can do if you've got
access from the inside
if we have a look here there's always
two screws that hold this lock together
now it might not be
visible screws so in this case here we
can turn this one here over
and you can see there we've got direct
access to the screws i can simply
unscrew this
pull it off no problem replace the latch
nice and easy but the majority of times
you won't be able to get into the inside
of the room so i've shown you guys in a
previous video
i'll link that in description below as
well how to drill out the lock whenever
you're stuck and there's no way around
it
it's a good option to just simply drill
it out so you guys can check that video
out but in this case here i'm going to
show you guys
how to open it up from the outside using
some shims
so what we're going to be using is some
door shims guys you can buy a whole
stack of these
with a whole different range of
thicknesses very very cheap
nice and effective work majority of
times but if you don't have these there
are plenty other options you can get a
little piece of cardboard
if you find the books school books
sometimes the
higher quality ones will have a little
bit of a plastic cover over the front of
it
you can use that there's a whole range
of different things you can use guys
what we're going to do is just basically
take these shims slide it through the
side here
and we want to push that latch back so
first i'm going to actually
um do this get the latch out of the way
and then i'm going to show you guys
exactly what we're doing
as we're putting through our shims so
all we do
line it up with where the latch would go
push that in a little bit
and we want to just wiggle it back and
forth until it starts to wedge its way
in
through that doorway so if we just keep
pushing that we're going to eventually
push that shim out of the way
and you can see there i've now opened up
the door guys it is that simple very
very easy
now don't be confused and think that
this is going to allow you to break into
people's houses that's not what this
video is about
you won't be able to do that and this
will not work guys what we're doing here
in this case like i said it's simply a
bedroom door so i'll show you guys a bit
of a close-up
what we're doing here so now we've got
the door open we can see the sticky tape
that's covering the latch
this was simply put on there to prevent
the latch from getting stuck on the
strike plate
it's a simple little temporary fix but
obviously didn't last very long
if we turn the lever you can see that
still faulty it's not working i need to
replace this latch here
in order to fix the problem so what i'm
going to show you guys is a bit of a
close-up as to what we're doing
with the shim you can see that the um
latch here is on a bit of an angle so
it's cut on a little bit of an angle
in order to be able to hit that strike
plate and then get stuck in the strike
plate preventing the door from being
opened
what we can what we do is we take the
shim slide that through the doorway
and then we simply jiggle that around a
little bit until it slides over the
latch and you can see there as it slides
up over the latch
we actually push that latch out of the
way allowing us to open up the door so
it's a very simple concept guys
nice and easy so once again guys the
door is closed
it doesn't work the latch is faulty
we're going to take our shim i'll try to
show you guys a bit of a close-up
so what i'm going to do is take it with
one hand push that in where the latch
would usually go so sliding between
the door jamb and the door jiggle that
around
wiggle it through until we push the
latch out of the way and you can see
there it simply pops it open guys
nice and easy little trick i'll see if i
can do it with a little credit card
so i'll take something out of my wallet
i'll see what i've got all right guys
once again we've got a card from my
wallet just a random plastic card we're
going to take it
do the exact same thing line it up with
the strike plate here
push it through as much as we can now
this one here is a little bit thicker
than
the door shims so it's going to be a
little bit harder but hopefully we'll
still be able to get the exact same
result
push it through wiggle that up and down
and there we have it guys nice and easy
james bond would be
impressed works very very well um to get
you out of trouble hopefully you guys
have enjoyed the video
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