How To Break An Interior Door Lock

This is the first pin of the lock.

How to break an interior door lock.

Pin by pin method. Lift your knee straight up and let your lower leg be pulled along with it. Take a hammer and flatten the end of the paperclip as flat as you can get it then grab your makeshift lock picking tools and head to the door. Squarely face the door with your feet roughly shoulder width apart knees slightly bent.

First insert the tension wrench into the bottom part of the lock and rotate it in the direction you would turn the key to unlock it to place tension on the lock. Push it in until you meet resistance. If the locking mechanism is a latchbolt the kind of bolt that is spring loaded and has one angled edge and the angled edge is facing away from you you can hook it with a wire hanger. After some wiggling your lock will hopefully open.

Bend one of the paperclips and fold out the other one as straight as possible. Insert the flattened end of the paperclip above the tension wrench. If you can t succeed with the scrubbing method keep the pressure on the allen wrench slight and. Kick the lock on the door with the bottom of your.

Lift your dominant leg at the knee. Ehow explains what to do next. In order to make your door lock more resistant to brute force attacks longer screws should be used to affix your strike plate into the door jamb. Maintain this tension throughout.

Essentially once the bolt is thrown into the door jamb you want to make it more difficult for the strike plate the lock bolt and the door frame to overcome by kicking or ramming attacks. When you insert the bent paperclip stick the straightened paperclip beneath it and move it around.