I had to sawzall my deadbolt
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ย. 2024
- A fancy mortise door lock failed shut. The only way I knew to get it out was to cut the deadbolt!
But once I had the lock out and disassembled it, I realized there would have been an easier way.
Locksmith here that works on a lot of door repairs.
Those multipoint locking systems, whether it by commercial or residential, are the bain of my existence. They are usually custom fit for that door, thus making them impossible to replace. They always break quickly (relatively speaking. A good residential lock should last 15-25 years, those systems rarely see past 10). And as you said, to retro fit something else onto the door makes it look terrible and would cost far too much, thus making it better to just replace the door.
Multipoint systems are made to exist in perfect conditions. If there is any amount of rubbing, they will break quickly.
Great video as well!
thanks! yes, from the machining marks, this came with the door and frame as a set.
I'm sure the main reason for those locks failing is partly because of their complexity, partly from not being very robustly built, and partly from people pushing hard down on the handle to unlock the deadbolt in one move and heavily stressing all those parts. Otherwise, I like the security they provide - it's unlikely someone will be kicking that door in.
I just cant wrap my head around the choice to put such a complicated and strong lock on a door with a full size window. As in, if someone who was determined enough to get into that house by trying to overpower a normal deadbolt wouldn't then resort to breaking the glass?
@@Shyid the reason they do it is because they are expensive (at least they are in Canada). Only the rich have them, and thus you can charge them more for their already custom door. "you can have a standard deadbolt, ooooorrr you can have this more unique, fancy and *expensive* lock instead" thats why. I haven't worked on one without a full view glass window. As for security, even if there wasn't a full view glass, the bolts are smaller on that model, they would give a minor amount of additional security.
(on a side not, i have worked on one with full view laminated blast glass. It had 8 locking points with a high security core, meaning no one was getting through. And it was residential, they guy was just paranoid i guess.)
@@Shyid My guess would be for the sake of a better seal with the weatherstripping.
The world’s most secure lock on the world’s most insecure door.
I always find it funny when people put extra bolts on glass doors, or on houses with windows that are not plainly visible to others. Security theater.
Yep. Very expensive and very silly. I have doors with half-windows in them - so I use double-cylinder locks. You have to have a key even inside. Break glass, still can't open door. Slow down the thief at least a little.
@@genebruce6321 In some locales, those are illegal on entry doors. They don't want you searching of fumbling with a key to get out in the event of a fire.
@@genebruce6321 Half your door is glass, why wouldn't they just go through the glass opening in the first place? Better add more locks to the rest of your door that isn't glass !! LMAO
@@genebruce6321 what you describe is paranoid and silly
This is the Lock Sawing Carpenter and today we will be sawing a jammed mortenson door lock currently preventing me from leaving my home.
First bolt is loose, second is binding, little crack on the third one ...
haha that's hilarious
Small click from the handle
Saw blade is binding
Let's try that again just to show it's not a fluke..
Using this special tool Bricklayer Bill and I invented ....
Interesting, I never thought to drill out a smaller hole for saw dust to escape from the hole saw cut, you learn something new every day 👍🏻
AvE taught me that
I am a European Locksmith and work with these locks all the time. Firstly to open a failed multipoint lock like this on a wooden door is not difficult.
Firstly the lock mechanism has to be identified which can be done by measuring the dimensions between bolt and latch and the the details around the spindle hole and euro hole. Once identified the full plate handle will allow you to drill to access the linkage points to withdraw the bolts the full length of the door. The full plate allows the hole to be covered. The gearcases can be bought separately. This one looks very similar to the old style GU gearcase ( German) . Replacing the multipoint lock with a standard American style deadbolt is a retrograde step as the multipoint lock adds to security and keeps the door from bowing. You will see much more of these mechanisms in North American in the years to come.
To open this failed lock and replace the gearcase would be somewhere between 190-300 Euro
wanted to document the drill points for future reference every time I opened the door but never did it since I don't run into it that often. I'll start doing it and share it online.
Given Matthias's frugality, I bet the alarm system in his house consists of just that sticker.
Shhhh!
I mean you can litlery see the door contact at the top ;)
a sticker that came with the house
I think the deciding factor was: Less Metal-- More Wood.
it consists of an old baby monitor hooked up to the glass door - wired to his bedroom, so he can hear the glass break when a burgler comes in at a certain decibel. Mathias has no guns, to he has a cricket bat he glued together out of an old sofa he stole out of somebodies front yard.
Cheap alternative: use the window as a door.
as soon as I saw him step out of that window that was my exact thought too
costanza approves.
As a handyman/reno guy I'm in exactly the boat you mentioned - no one wants to pay for the fix, especially when it will end up looking unfinished so I always end up replacing the door completely. But in my own home I'm happy to have some unfinished-looking parts for a while until I get around to painting/staining
Plus one for the handy man/woman! Always there to save the day!
Given how much time he spent just getting the door open without tearing it up, it certainly would be cheaper for the customer to just destroy and replace the door.
We all know the last step never happens and it remains unpainted until you move out or die.
I think that with a little more work, you could make it look much, much better, but it is likely not worth the time.
I'm a locksmith and we charge big bucks to repair this style of door. Often the wood on the door is too narrow to facilitate retro-fitting standard lock hardware as you did so, we have to custom order parts. Glad to see your cost-friendly solution worked. Thanks for sharing! :)
He'll be sending you a bill for advisory services. :-)
“ it doesn’t look like new, but it will have to do.” Idk why but I love that!
So glad to see proper door handles. None of that door knob rubbish.
Wow so many ways to secure that door! Yet a 2 inch stone would open it the fastest
exactly why i dont spend big on locks, just go up from the cheap crap to something that will last and don't worry if its 'pick proof', if someone wants to get in, the window is right beside the door. yes it will be a bit louder, but nobody is going to call the cops in this day and age because the hear some glass break in the middle of the night.
there are ways to get around the loud too. that 'contact' that you put on school books work...
@Jp and louder
@@myopinion69420 in the middle of the night? Break in's happen mostly afternoons and evenings
Assuming it's a double glazed strengthened pane, like they have to be here in the UK, then they're a lot harder to break than you'd think.
A 2 inch stone would just bounce. Even if it did manage to break the glass, you'd have to then do it all again for the interior pane.
It might be a door intended for deterring bears. Bears exert a broad force in doors which pushes out a single bolt. Glass won’t crack under such an attack and distributing the force across several bolts at multiple angles as a better chance of defeating it.
So glad you did the "A whole lotta updates" video on your main channel so now I know this one exists!
Aside from the big pane of glass, that's one very sturdy door and latch!
Had a similar failure with a pella casement window. I was able to finally get the parts from pella, they have way more than they list online but they try to force you to go through a authorized repair person. Lots of phone calls, sending pictures, etc... You saved yourself well over $1k though, my latch set was $400 and I had to bust apart the casement to replace it. They would probably want much more for that lock assembly.
Companies doing that are extremely annoying to professionals not closely partnered with the brand. As an Engineer I have a personal shitlist of famous companies that have proven themselves unworthy of participation in honest commerce, thus I search far and wide for alternative suppliers whenever something needs repair or replacement.
@@johndododoe1411 Yes! This! It's one reason my brother won't work with Trane and I discourage my customers from using Pela and Master Craft (talk about the two poles of quality, both with awful service).
That's a bad failure mode.
At least it failed in a "door closed" and not a "free for all" state.
@@MazeFrame that might be good for stopping burglars, not so good for escaping if there’s a fire.
@@alant84 it's a _glass_ door
ikr... fire, flood... sometimes people really need to get out of the house
Because he diodn't know what he is doing ... i've seen this a bunch of times and it would only take 5-10 min at most to fix this
Oh as soon as I saw the square hole I knew it was a multipoint lock set. Our company uses a lot of those and I could’ve had this door open within 10 minutes with no cutting. Ours is similar but different because the manufacturer we use has a fail safe built in for cases if this scenario ever happens. Great video again!
The square hole for the door handle is standard across Europe, it's not specific to 4 point locks. In fact it is used on the most basic single point latch only locks. That internal mechanism failure seems highly brand or model specific, as not all similar locks will include that part.
I just had to replace a mortise lock on a sliding door at my house. Luckily it failed in the unlocked state, so I didn't have nearly as much trouble as you. Thanks for sharing!
nicely done! Nice that you are fixing things. THings get more pretty when you see that someone took the time to repair. (At least for me) Plus you did such a dedicated repair job with all the plugs that it really could not be better. You can still paint all the door white to cover up if someone does not like to see the plugs. THanks for the part with showing the lock. Locks are amazing :)
Honest Owner: 2 hours of hacksaws and sawzall.
Criminal Thief: 15 seconds and a brick.
Sometimes, good enough is good enough. Thanks for sharing.
I always do my own home repairs unless it's to involved. Watching Matthias deal with that lock makes me glad that I don't have one of those on any doors in my house!
Matthias was certainly making be feel better this video. I was thinking better him than me.
How well you transferred your skills to an unfamiliar problem is impressive. Absolute legend.
When I worked in a residential care home for adults with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour. I somehow ended up doing maintenance around the house. I dreaded jobs like this! A day going and a manager thinks you haven't done anything.
It's the same thing in Information Technology (IT).
Oh, yes. I've had good workers spend enormous amounts of time undoing willful damage before they can even start installing the new equipment.
We warn the homeowners of the time and cost in advance and they almost always understand. The ones who don't want to pay fair rates for 'demo' work, we don't work for.
I can do more damage removing old equipment than ever in installing new if I don't know what I'm doing.
Managers. Pff. What do they know? A bunch of overpaid blowhards.
that is a serious awesome door!! Love the fact that it is so secure. ALL door should be made like this and lock at multiple spots for security.
I love how you keep in all those little mistakes in your videos, like dropping stuff or screwing something up. I love your videos!!!
damn, I love your little observations
I was a locksmith years ago. There is a plate that wraps around the door and provides threaded mortise holes for both latch plates. That's probably what I would have ended up using for the door side at least.
These patio door locks are potmetal junk though, as you discovered. Vintage mortise locks are mechanically beautiful often times, and I actually convinced customers to allow me to make parts and repair those before rather that using the cover plate.
I used to have a front door with a 100 year old mortise lock. It was a Baldwin. I took it apart at least 10 times to replace a bent part (it was solid brass) beautiful and secure. Other than the bent part worked beautiful. I was amazed at the workmanship. Your lock reminded me of it. Mine has hardened bars in the mortise making cutting it probably impossible.
Made me sad you had to replace it with basically a closet lock by comparison. I understand your reasons but it was still sad.
Ya know, I learn something every time I watch your videos. TYSM!
I'm happy to see you expanding your skillset to include locksmithing. 😁👍
Well done, Mattias! Don't fuss the cosmetics - I prefer to allow my home to look a little shabby to discourage would-be thieves from discovering the real valuables I have squirreled away inside.
This was the enineering approach, LPL would have used a sodacan or something 🤣
....or a cigarette lighter.
...and opened it under a minute 😁
Pin 1, is set, pin 2, is set, pin 3, is binding, pin 4, is binding, pin 5, is set, on to pin 6, and we're through.
"This is the LPL and what i have here, oops. And to show it was not a fluke. Oops again. That's all i have for you today."
6:51 love the fact you replicated a door handle for your demonstration.
You did a better job than many locksmiths I've worked with. Had one idiot install the Dorma door closer wrong two times, leaving two sets of visible holes in an oiled oak door and frame that was $$$ (it was 2.5*4 meters).
If you are going to break the lock anyway - always hit the handle with a hammer - it might just open ...
or put a cheater bar on it
Or it might break some of that wood.
@@Yutani_Crayven Or you might slip/miss and break the window.
Just the impact of doing that can break a window.......trust me lol
Yeah dont do that.
You are the king of handyman hero's, this is the best laugh I have had in some time. Don't do it like this 101. But hey its done, its clear you have little concept of what a professional can do.
Police: What's your emergency?
Caller: There's man trying to saw through the back door of my neighbor's house !
Police: We'll send an officer right over.
Officer: Okay, buddy, hands behind your back.
Matthias: But this is MY house !
Officer: You can explain it down at the station. Let's go.
TV news anchor: Earlier today this man was arrested while trying to escape from a house that he'd tried to rob. The bungling burglar had locked himself inside. Quick action by police caught him sawing through the door's lock.
replacement locks are indeed available, (our) average cost to come out to replace these multi point locks usually averages about $600-$700 but requires two trips & a wait of about a week on shipping
refitting it with normal locks is a valid option aside from the visual issues but the cost would be about the same 🤷♂️
wasn't on the manufacturer's website, even under "legacy locks". Didn't feel like chasing after that.
@@matthiasrandomstuff2221 right, it probably wouldn’t be as most mfg websites just wanna showcase their latest & greatest locks that can spectacularly fail :) allaboutdoors usually has most brands replacements and in the case of true “discontinued” products there are options that require a bit of modding
but! You have a way easier to replace option now 😉
Yup! The cost is usually the same in the end so I convince my customers to go with replacement then conversion. 100%
I have the same mechanisms on my doors here in the US.
Mine were stuck in the unlocked position for a year.
And then finally one day I realised I needed to push the handle down first in order to lock it 😁
You're lucky. Some deadbolts contain loose round pins of hardened steel to prevent attempts to saw through them. Once the saw kerf reaches the pins, they just rotate so the saw teeth can't dig in.
Which leads to destructive plan B: Cut a chunk out of the jamb, though that would not have helped with those top and bottom bolts.
That lock seems like way too much security to use in a full glass door flanked by two large windows.
"That lock seems like way too much security to use in a full glass door flanked by two large windows." Definitely. Even a deadbolt probably isn't needed as long as the angle of the jamb prevents card attacks.
Love how frugal you are! Awesome!
Great fix Matthias. Don't you just love those "can of worms" jobs? 🤣💕👍
That door was impressive! 😮
Great job, Matthias!!!
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
A place i used to work had a huge walk-in vault, it had previously been a wine cellar but was now part storage and part workshop.
A co worker with some anger problems couldn't get in one day and took a sledge hammer to the old combination mechanism. Of course it is designed to never open if you do that, with large pins in all 4 sides of the door.
Luckily about a week prior out of sheer curiosity I had taken the door apart from the inside to learn how the whole mechanism worked.
We needed to have a guy come with a torch to cut a hole in the door so that I could reach in and work blind with my hands backwards to unlock the mechanism which eventually I was able to do.
It destroyed the door but we did get the use of our workshop again.😂
You were in a real JAMB there.
We had the same problem on a very similar or the same lock, so we took a big angle grinder, cut the screws holding door frame to the wall and took whole thing out. Do not remember exactly how, but were able to unlock the mechanism, took the lock apart the same way you did, made replacement parts out of steel to replace those made out of some brittle metal and it works. We were locked out by the way, so we didn't have any access to the lock (european).
That was a heck of a lock. I was always told "you only lock your doors to keep the honest people out"
The locking mechanism is cool though.
Always enjoy how you tackle a situation 👍🏻
Wow! I've been through a few emergency repairs of doors that refused to open due to winter weather and they were crowbarred open carelessly, was left to fix the damage afterwards. No matter what the design latch and lock repair is A LOT of work!
That was interesting. Brute force may have worked, but regardless, you put forth the effort you felt was necessary, and you gained an understanding of the mechanism and how it failed. Perhaps some door handle plates could be used to dress the area around the handles? They come in different materials and finishes. Just an idea. Great video, thanks for sharing!
I find with wooden doors/casings when mortice locks fail, you can usually use a couple of flat crow bars/ wrecking bars to bend the casing slightly and allow the mortice out, failing that, a thin cut off wheel in a grinder and a couple of wedges to give clearance. Its amazing how much give wooden doors and casings have.
This is a common failure mode for these Pella multipoint locks. I replace many of these with the same issue in my area as well as many other different brands. These are not the worst but not the most robust either in terms of serviceability. Well done.
They make fancy brass plates to cover all that up.
So you are new here...
I have run into a few of those locks over the years. Locksmith for 35 years, retired. And yes, you can get them open without going through what you did. And, no we don't repair them. There is aftermarket replacements for that lock, but they are not cheap. We mostly saw them on higher end houses that have views and the owner wants all glass on that wall. And another issue, is they make us replace with the same as they don't want the door modified. I think the last one my partner and I did was charged like $800 USD and they didn't even blink an eye.
Thanks for always talking through your thinking, plenty good tips there. e.g. carving out a little to land the forstner bit
I learnt a lot from all this, good rescue!
Boy, did that door pick the wrong TH-camr to mess with. 😜
My door deadbolt lock also stopped working a few weeks ago. I became concerned about breaking the key.I could get into my shop. And plus borrowed a drill, bits and cut wheel. The wheel worked great in cutting the sticking out part off. And that's all it took.
Had to drill out the bolt hole for the new lock.
Lesson learned: always carry 5 sticks dynamite in truck.
Ring... ring... Hello, Lock Picking Lawyer? Yeah, we've got a guy over here taking a sawzall to his door...
It's called a four point door, very common in europe, but quiet not here. As you said, from the inside, knowing what part to move, you could have saved it.
Yeah 5-10 min at most with disassembly and installing new
That said... that was a nice door. It was installed quite well.
Hahahah that holesaw sped up sounds like the opera..
That was a interesting look at custom door security, and recutting holes in doors, thanks!
Funnily enough, I had a vaguely similar failure in a door last year as well - it had a multipoint lock with a Euro cylinder lock. The little cam thing in the middle of the lock had snapped off and jammed, making it impossible to do anything. It turned out that it's actually surprisingly easy to break Euro locks in half by two people gripping it with pliers on both sides and bending, so fortunately got it out that way, door open, and was able to replace the unit. But again it was just a tiny little part that totally screwed up the whole mechanism. Luckily I've had the mechanism out before so knew roughly what to deal with, but if it was something I'd never seen before, much trickier. Glad you got things working again!
locksmith here in CA i've worked on quite a few of these locks and a majority of the other locksmiths just send these jobs my way, there is an easier way to open the door, just requires a hole in a specific area and a rod to pull the bolt inwards from the side of the lock...
Same here. Always thought about drilling a hole but never did. didn't want to drill a new hole but it gets covered by the trim so I guess it doesn't matter. still got it done though.
Wow, I've never seen a wooden door with top and bottom lugs! I've only ever seen them on steel doors back in Asia. I clearly remember our first apartment had a six-lug door, and our most recent high-rise apartment had 12 lugs in addition to the lock itself.
Great video! but was anyone else thinking? a fancy high security lock for a door with a giant window😆🤣
Matthias always knows how to have fun!
Nice repair effort.
I haven’t seen a lock like that before, so that was very interesting in itself.
5:22 literally the sound every dad makes when we drop anything.
good justification, time well spent 👍
Hi Matthias, just a few things to watch out for
Door will start to twist away from the compression seals on the top and bottom as it’s no longer held against the seals
So you might have air gaps over time
What removed was a euro profile Espagnolette multi point lock
The temperature variation from inside to outside causes the damage over time
You could put bolts top and bottom but they end up not getting used by other family members or your going to have them complain about it 🤔
Ps first time comment on your videos but have been a subscriber for years and 💕 your inventions thanks and keep up the good work
Regards
Karl
Many years in the door business
18957 MINT E-Beschlag
Are the best I have came across
And are so reliable Swiss made by Glutz
There are double door lock escutcheon plates that cover up the patches after replacing a full mortise with a barrel lock.
Good point on the managing billable hours with little to show for.
I had this type of lock in my bedroom and this is a common lock here in China for different rooms. I’ve been locked in my bedroom twice in a single year. I opened my door with brutal force to the lock body without any damage to the door. I use a pipe wrench to twist the handle and ripped the internal of the lock then the deadbolt come loose.
Yeah I'm a home repair guy and that's an astute observation you made there. I don't ever choose to replace anything tho, I just don't make good money and spend forever trying to make it look like new xD
That locking mechanism is fantastic, but putting it on a glass door seems silly
It might be tempered glass. Which is not so easy to break.
@@1pcfred Easily broken by a nail punch and actually less secure because it doesn't make as much noise when it is broken.
@@tmmtmm not so easy. Once I saw a guy bounce off a tempered picture window after hitting it with a sledge hammer. It was pretty funny. We were demolishing a mall store space. So it was one of those big store front windows. When tempered does break it sort of explodes. The trick is to clip it on the edge.
It's a fancy mechanism, but overall it is pretty awful. It has about a million different failure points, all of which are under a ton of pressure every single time you have to actuate the lock. A lot of them even use plastic for several of the key components lol. Any 3-point lock mechanism is the bane of my existence, as a window/door repair tech.
@@1pcfred That's what the nail punch is for. Gotta get all the force on a single point.
A spindle sander would of came in handy here for sure 👍
I can never get my chisels to make that BRBRBRT sound.
It just takes practice.
Speed up by quadruple.
Full-auto chisels!
multi-point locks are nice. They help push the door up against the weather seal at the top and the bottom in addition to the middle, so you get a much better seal against air leakage, wind-driven rain, etc.
Good job, I had to fix my sliding door lock to the deck a month ago, but I did not take a video and now I forgot how I fixed it.
I am surprised you were able to cut through the bolts. A lot of those have a free-spinning steel rod inside the bolt that just spins when trying to cut.
Spoken like a locksmith, or an experienced person. :)
@@DougsterCanada1 I have done a lot of home repair for a realty company. Renters are always destroying the locksets, as well as everything else.
This is a patio door. They rarely have security bolts. The multipoint was for rain.
That was my thought. My deadbolts have a hardened steel rod that spins in the middle, you aren't getting through it with a Sawzall in any reasonable length of time. Maybe with a cut-off disk coming in at an angle. Plus my deadbolts extent almost 3" into the jamb and door-frame. This looks like a couple good kicks and the wood will break away. Not sure how much of an issue it all is in the real world, but...
@@JWimpy LOL 😂
Like Matthias, my tendency when something breaks is to fix it myself. I have lots of skills and lots of tools. I bought an old house with a small farm about a year ago and I find myself fixing things that were poorly constructed or maintained almost constantly. I have come to the realization that my time is also worth something and there are some pieces of equipment where the intimate knowledge of a full-time tradesman is preferable. I live in the UK and hiring a tradesman has about a 50% chance of a satisfactory outcome, in my recent experience, but on some occasions, it is still best to call a pro.
It's funny that there's a lock that secure on a giant glass door with two giant glass windows beside it .
Aside from security, those multipoint locksets also provide a better air seal against the weather strip
3:54 Seriously was waiting for the door to go to the Pantarouter! This is smarter though!
Or the replacement lock made completely out of wood.
Removing and reinstalling the entire door and jamb would only take a couple hours. Done carefully, you could reuse all the trim which would only have to be recaulked and painted.While it’s out of the opening it’s not hard to open up the jamb to get access to the lock mechanism to replace it.
Very interesting video. WOW I've never seen anything like that. 👍
The main Lock - without up and down bolts - looks very familiar to me as the size of locks is standard here in europe.
I had to smile when you said - replace it with standard knob and deadbolt :)
AU Locksmith here. We do come across these oddball ones where; you've never seen that model AND you've never seen that fault AND you can't buy a spare AND it's a saturday night etc.
That's where the Knowledge side of the trade gives way to the Wisdom of the trade. Standard methods of observation, consealed destructive entry, and planning for making the best out of bad situation all come into play.
Having to cut 4 bolts apart is extreme, if you'd paid someone to fix it and that was their solution, I'd be recommending you sought a refund.
Personally, I would have started determining the source of the bind, then ensuring my drill points were covered by those nice brass handle plates.
Might have still needed to retrofit the lock for something more serviceable.
Impressive locking setup for a glass door between two huge glass windows. Also there is a tool designed to do that bypass you mentioned.
The last minute of the video is just Matthias justifying his cheapness... love it!
You can buy them they are about $650 Pella doesn't have them on their website but they can still get them. I work for a manufacturer in Canada and just replaced one the other day. That door is a wood door that needs the multi point hardware to help keep it from warping. I hope it is able to stay nice and straight.
Nice fix, Matthias. Those locks are very common here in the Netherlands (but the top and bottom pins usually come out the side just like the main bolt). I've had one of those fail simply because of a loose screw. Luckily it was a double patio door so I could just open the other door and fix the broken one. If it was a single door like yours I would have been screwed (pun intended).
Capital lock Fredericton might have been able to do it if anyone could locally, they are very knowledgeable, I think they have a computer system like a mechanic shop does for fixing cars for locks but I may be wrong. They're on Prospect Street they usually have good prices too.
I think they pick locks also.
Helpful video
That is a common patio door lock. The reason it's multi-point is the extra height door. A door that height is quite flexible. It's not for security, so much as for keeping the weather out. During a storm it would leak a lot.
2:29 - that bit made me laugh - I recall the scene from "Who framed Roger Rabbit" when they are trying to get out of the shackles!
BTW, you ought to have a few of the "wind bags" around, they make shirt work of opening up that door 'slotp, and work great for levelling and otherwise adjusting window and door frames, and lifting heavy furniture enough to get a set of wheels under...
Should have called the Lock Picking lawyer.
Hearing the sirens in the background once you finally got through made me chuckle.