Growing Up With The Lock Taken Off Your Door

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.
Growing up with the lock taken off your door. Tighten the two mounting screws. Your new lock may or may not fit in the hole left by removing the old lock. Insert the new spring latch assembly into the hole where the old latch was located so the angled part of the spring latch faces the strike plate in the door jamb. Easy way to get that locked door open.
You ll see the frame of the lock that holds the latch or dead bolt plug remaining in the hole. Insert a long sturdy item with a flat tip preferably a flat head screwdriver if available between the top rung of the door s top hinge and the head of the bolt securing the door to the hinge. Quite often the door locking situation rears its ugly head when a child turns 12 or 13 years old. Take the door off the hinges.
Use the screwdriver to push the opposite side of the doorknob from the door and latch. A lot of bathroom handles have no keyhole just a knob built into the handle you turn to lock the door when you re in the bathroom. Suddenly the door lock which has been on the door since they were 2 is now their favorite household appliance. So the only way to get a door open when you re on the outside and it s locked from the inside is to remove the door from its hinges.
Depending on the manufacturer the spindle may pull from the latch or slide off the spindle. That part is removed by pulling it out from the edge of the door where you removed the latch plate.