How To Get Into A Locked Door With A Credit Card

Pick a card that you don t mind losing in case it bends or is damaged in any other way.

How to get into a locked door with a credit card.

If you re in a hurry take any small screw and screw it into the doorframe in front of the tongue of the door lock. Put the credit card into the side of the door. Angle the card downward and situate it behind the bolt of the lock. Ever locked yourself out and have no way of getting in.

Insert the card into the gap between the doorknob and door frame and then slide it down next to the doorknob. Once the corner is in straighten the card so that it is perpendicular to the door and the entire edge of the card is between the door and the strike plate. If you have a plastic card that s less valuable than a credit card like a video membership card try that first. A credit card will only open a spring bolt the kind of lock that comes with a standard doorknob.

Push it in as far as it will go at a ninety degree angle to the door. Try to tilt the card towards the doorknob so that it touches the door knob. The screw should be screwed in deeply enough that it is short enough to allow you to close the door but tall enough to prevent a credit card from fitting into the gap between the door and the doorframe. Here is another life hack for you.

To see the location of the door frame more easily push the door back as far as it can go with your other hand. Hey whats shaking guys today i just wanted to do a little video showing you guys how to open a locked door with a credit card in case you lock yourself out o. You want to make sure that the card is perpendicular to the door. Bend your card towards the doorknob.

Slide the long end of a credit card in between the door frame and the locking side of the door just above where the lock enters the frame. While you slide the card in jiggle the handle so that it goes down a little as you keep putting pressure against the barrel with the card. Check the lock check the lock. Try to shove the card in as much as possible make sure the card is perpendicular to the door.

It won t work on a deadbolt. Slide the card into the gap between the door and the jamb. Keep sliding it in until it touches the barrel of the lock. Insert the card between the door frame and the door near the handle.