Locked out of Your House? Learn What to Do

Locking out yourself is the most annoying and frustrating thing you will ever face. This happens in most unfortunate cases when you have an emergency situation. Such as you need to use the washroom or you are coming from a long day of work and want to rest, but you have yourself outside. In this article there are some valuable tips by which you can resolve this issue.

●    Call any other member of the house

When you have locked yourself outside your door, the first option is to contact the closest ones who can help you to get rid of this trapped situation. Call your wife, husband, kid, or any other household member. If they have any other duplicate keys, they can open the door for you.

●    Rented house

If you are living in a rented house, then it’s time to call the house owner or a landlord. They could help you with a duplicate key and open the door for you and rescue you from this trapped situation.

●    Look for a substitute door or window

In many houses, there are back doors from which you can enter the house if they are not locked. There also could be some window from where you can take a change if it is not grilled.

●    Remove the doorknob

Take help from the neighbors and use some sharp things like a screwdriver aur a knife to open the doorknob when you are locked out of your house. After you successfully get rid of this trapped situation, you can again reinstall the doorknob ans use it.

●    Use a card

This trick is very common as you use an id card or credit card to open doors. All you yo need to do is to push the card against the lock, and if you listen to a small ticking sound, then you may open the door. However, it does not work for every lock.

●    Break in

When nothing of the above works, then the only option left which is to break into your own house by breaking the lock with some shovel or hammer borrowing from your neighbor. Or you can call a locksmith, and they could break the lock with more delicacy which will cause less damage.

Conclusion

Hope by reading this article you got to know about some important tips on how to get rid of yourself when you are trapped by locking yourself outside of your house.