Hacking your swing-latch: a successful approach for dealing with annoying and expensive door locks that fail
The first thing to do is to stop using the lock, at least for a while. This will give you time to think about how you want to deal with it, and what you might want to do in the longer term. The second thing is to find out whether there are any other options available
If you have an old bolt-lock key, it's possible that you could just cut off the end of it and use that as a substitute for the existing latch. But if your door has one of those fancy electronic locks on it (which often cost thousands of pounds) then you're probably out of luck unless someone lets you in or sells you one of their spare keys (and probably not even then)
What if there's no alternative? If all else fails, there may be an alternative: hacking your own lock!
national swinging door latchSwinging doors are the most common style of door. They feature hinged panels that swing open and closed. Swinging doors are available in single panels or multiple panels. The direction a door swings, either to the right or the left, is called the handing. In addition to handing, exterior doors are identified as either inswing or outswing depending on whether they open into the house or towards the outside.
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