Open Apartment Door With Credit Card

At an angle slide the edge of your card between the door and the strike plate.

Open apartment door with credit card.

It does move a little though when a door knob is turned even if the door is locked. 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. So if there is no deadbolt the hinges are on the opposite side of the door and there isn t anything blocking the crack of the door that particular door can be unlocked with a credit card. Next bend the end of the card back toward the frame which will cause the card to slip under the latch and unlock the door.

How to pick a lock with a credit card. As long as the lock is turned the door won t open. Install a door latch guard on the door if it swings outward. Ok im just showing you how to bypass the main lock on a household door not the deadbolt but the door knob type please do not use this in a criminal manner.

Then bend the card toward the doorknob. In addition i have tried on a couple occasions over the years to open a door with a credit card and all i got was a broken credit card. If the door doesn t unlock try leaning on the door and wiggling the. Opening a door with a credit card works on a lockset because it s a lock that has a barrel that fits through the strike of the door jam.

This is a metal plate that screws in next to the door handle and covers the strike plate so a credit card cannot get to the bolt. 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.