When you want the door locked you slide the two bolts into the receiver and your door is secure.
How to break into a locked sliding glass door.
The third option is to actually lift the door out of its tracks.
The sliding door can usually be lifted about an inch then the bottom can be pushed in.
For most doors especially doors that have been in place for a few years you can put push against the door then using pressure life and drop the door a few times.
One of the reasons that i like this double bolt option is that intruders have other options besides breaking the glass and jimmying the lock on the door.
How burglars break in through your sliding glass door.
Lifting it will probably also disengage the latch allowing you to slide the door open.
Jagged glass may be sharper than you think.
As we briefly mentioned above the locks on most sliding glass doors are really just latches.
Slide the glass free of its mounting place it off to the side and enter your house through the empty window.
Just lift it but be careful because it is very heavy and awkward to handle.
If your window has only partially popped free of the mounting try to reach either a set of keys the lock or the door handle.
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After literally a few seconds the locks tend to fail to the point where you can simply slide the door open and gain access.
Tilting the door lowers the latch releasing it from the bracket.
The l shaped latch on the door connects with the bracket typically pivoting up from the bottom to lock the door.
Before we get into how to secure your sliding glass door we need to address how burglars may get in in the first place.
It varies depending on the door.