How To Take A Lock Out Of A Door

With the right tools in hand and clear instructions removing a door knob is a home improvement task even your kids can help you with.

How to take a lock out of a door.

How to remove a locked doorknob. Once the sash is pulled out enough to manage a good hold of it with one hand the handle can be grabbed with the other hand and the sash moved. Step 3 pry out the door after the pins are removed from all the hinges a small pry bar or a claw hammer can be used to start pulling out the sash from its frame very slowly as shown in figure 6. Once all the screws are unscrewed you can grab the latch and remove the doorknob.

Take the door off its hinges. Removing the door hinges to your door is only successful if you have an outswing door. Once the door is no longer connected to the frame you ll be able to slip it out of the opening and remove the lock from the interior side. You don t need to remove that unless you are changing out your entire door lock.

Pull the lock out. This leaves your door without any knob. Outswing doors have outward facing hinges. How to remove a door lock at home.

Ramming a door will likely lead a damaged door and door lock. Once your latch plate is off and your casing bolts are removed pull the 2 halves of the lock straight out on each side of the door. Use a hammer and center punch to drive out the hinge pins if they are accessible. When you get locked out this is the simplest way to get in your house.

You ll see the frame of the lock that holds the latch or dead bolt plug remaining in the hole.