How to unlock door with hole in knob
How to Open a Bathroom or Bedroom Privacy Lock from the Outside
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hello this Gipp and what we have here is
a bathroom privacy lock very standard
most of you are familiar with it just
has a little locking mechanism there and
it locks the door and then you move it
this way and it becomes unlocked but
sometimes either because of an accident
or on purpose especially with kids these
get locked and you need to get in on me
from the front side and you just can't
do it well I'll show you how to kind of
get yourself into these doors without
destroying the door well as you can
clearly see there's two sides these
locks is the one with the locking
mechanism and then the opposite side has
just a handle and you see this little
hole here now this hole is how you get
into these locks when you can't get on
to the other side and what's behind this
little hole is it's pretty much a hollow
little area but there's this little bar
that comes up which has a groove in it I
don't think you could see it through
here but that grew if you can stick
something in there like a really small
screwdriver and twist it it will open up
the other side now the trick is to find
a screwdriver small enough to do the
trick now here's one of my smaller
screwdrivers here kind of has a bad end
but it's kind of like one of the
standard and this doesn't quite make it
the head makes it but the wider end
doesn't make it through so that's the
trick is finding a small enough
screwdriver or making something that can
get in there with a flat end to turn
that lock open now I am fortunate to
have a even smaller screwdriver here's a
very small head this is like or maybe
glasses those those screwdrivers that
come with your glass or pair kits I can
get in here but this one actually does
fit in but unfortunately the wider base
does not so let me just slip this off
and kind of slip just the head portion
and just go straight back and kind of
feel your way
so as you do this you'll notice it's not
the easiest thing you go a little you
kind of tilt it one way it doesn't go in
properly you kind of have to go very
just straight on in and then kind of
wiggle it in until you find a groove and
there I think I found the groove and
then and then you could twist it in this
case I'm not actually used stick this in
a little bit farther so I could twist it
and you can see from the opposite end it
goes in and out so let's test this out
and see if we can get in this door so
I'm going ahead and lock this door so we
can't get in here it's locked and so I'm
hopeful I can't get in so I'm going to
stick this little screw in tin feel what
round stick that in and twist it there
we go oh I do if I'm in and there you go
it opened up so again the key is to find
something small enough they could stick
in there or making something that works
again a glass repair kit screwdriver
would work pretty well just as kind of a
an extra a lot of these come in with a
little Groot piece here that if you have
a screwdriver you could just move it and
it's it's more visible but most are just
like this has a little hole and you have
to slip something in so there you have
it if you ever get locked out of your
bathroom or bedroom that's how you get
in see you next time
