Woke up, Friday the 13th. Couldn’t get into my bathroom to get ready for work. I tried everything imaginable. Then found your video. You changed the direction of my day. Thank you!

Thank you sir. I destroyed my credit card, but it was worth it

Champion! A shim made from a strip of thin, flexible but strong clear plastic packaging got me inside the room in 10 mins. You’re a star.

This was a brilliant suggestion. I actually got locked in my bedroom on the second floor, fortunately I could climb down from the balcony onto the garage and then drop off the back of the garage onto the grass. Once I made it around to the other side of the door, it took about 10 minutes and an A4 size plastic folder cover to open the door. A good idea was to put the latch in the middle of the A4 sheet, push one corner in first and then push the whole sheet in. Once I got it in it didn't open immediately, I'm pretty sure because the sheet bent around the latch, but then I decided to push the sheet up and down in the latch and after a while the door popped open. I was incredibly lucky this happened to my bedroom door because after this I went around the house to check all the doors and found that the downstairs toilet was showing symptoms of the same issue. The symptom to look out for is the door handle shows resistance when trying turn it and/or if it makes a thump noise halfway through the turn. If I couldn’t open the toilet door the only way, I could have escaped would have been for me to use the top of the toilet as a battering ram on the door or wall. For some this could turn into a life-threatening situation, if you get stuck in a room without a phone or any kind of escape it could be the last thing you ever do and idea getting trapped in the toilet and not being able to open the door or call for help scares the living sh*t out of me. I now understand the importance of taking my phone with me when I go to the toilet. There seems to be a fundamental flaw with this latch, the metal square where the handles go through cracked and then deformed. The one I replaced it with has a plastic square (which is either better or worse). I notice with the new latch the handle only needs to turn half as far to open the door, which seems better.

Brilliant. Thank you. Worked a treat on daughter's stuck bedroom door.

Just used this! Getting ready to go out and my bedroom door locked. Thank you so much!

Next week on Billshowto How to Hot Wire a car. Bill: "now this is not to steal a car, maybe you dropped your keys or left them at your mates place. I'll save you a trip"

2 years later and this still works 😭 i just unlocked my door in 2 freaking minutes with this video 😭😭😭😭😭 thank u god bless u

Thank you..this worked for me ☺️we realized our living and kitchen area was jammed around 5 in the morning..being a Sunday I had no hopes of getting help..I tried and tried but finally succeeded..proud of myself never thought it'll work

You are life saver....I followed your video and opened my bathroom door

Thanks, managed to get into my bedroom after about an hour of fighting with the door. The mechanism inside broke and the latch was stuck in the locked position. Luckily, shimming my way through using cut up plastic packaging worked! For those struggling with the same problem, the key to opening the door (no pun intended) was relieving the tensions from the latch, by pulling on the door slightly (from the oposite side that the one the door opens towards). Thanks again!

Thanks! You're a life saver.

Thank-you.. this actually worked! My daughters bedroom was locked for 2 days!!

Thank you! Kids door stopped opening from the outside. Did the trick to get the door open.

Thank you for this - saved us on Christmas day!

Thanks man, I kept on trying to ram the door open until I finally watched this!🤣

Thanks so much! I accidentally locked myself in the garage with no keys or cards, but I managed to find a binder divider that worked just as well. Bless!

Omg, this just saved us (and our night sleep). No doorhandles yet, wind blew, door slammed, pretty much nothing but a bed in our room. Used cardboard packaging and it worked. Crazy.

I'm clicking Like even before trying this. Lock is jammed

I tried this and it worked! This is handy !!

Thanks so much, absolute life saver

Thank you for this!! It worked! 🙌🏼

Thank you bro. I tried my credit card but was too thick. Got a old plastic folder and cut a piece out. Worked like a charm

Amazing technique.. thank you soo much sir. Opened my door by a plastic card. 😻❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉i am soo grateful for this vdo.

Thank you so much, you saved my life! Amazing tips thanks again….🙏

I did it. I used the dollar store plastic place mat and it worked! Thank you very much😊

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Okay… last night at bedtime I discovered the door would not open! I was inside the room… tried for 20 minutes to loosen it up, took off hinge pins… nothing worked. I had to spend the night sleeping on the couch, wondering what to do.I watched 4 other door stuck videos… and none of them used this method or worked. They all think you can call This Old House to do it. So thanks to you I got the door to OPEN! Great tips! I was about to try a thinner plastic, so I see there is whole art to jimmying the card around the corner… and then jimmying it down to move the latch. THANKS!

Thank you very much my man. I cut off a piece of thin plastic from the back page of an A4 sleeve binder. Worked a treat as the credit card was too thick for the door gap.

You're a life saviour

So helpful. Thanks for sharing

This saved us a call to the fire department when my son got himself stuck in the bathroom. THANK YOU!

This helped me today! Though we didn't have standard door shims handy, tried cutting out pieces from different stuff (like diary covers, phone screen protectors, etc.) with varying thickness. One of them finally worked. Thanks a lot!

This really works and it is sooo easy. Thankyou so much.

This video works... Was able to finally unlock my restroom door after hours of trying. Thank you for making it

We’re on state of emergency and we got flashflood warning you just saved my life from being stucked inside our apartment (basement) alone. I’m new to my place so I don’t really know if we get flood in here and I have bad anxiet.

Worked like a charm, kudos to you sir, luckily didnt break the card or the door in the process.

Thanks for this video

Worked! Thank you

You saved my life twice. Now my dog locked himself inside, along with my phone. I knew I did it once but it wasnt working haha Just needed a refresher, oufff

"Now don't be confused and think that this is going to allow you to break into people's houses. That's not what this video is about..." 😂 stellar quote

Thankyou sir. I used ur knowledge today

Thanks a lot for this video. It worked like magic 🔥👌🏾🙏🏾.

It literally worked in 5 seconds with an old membership card👍🏾Thank you for the knowledge !!!

Thanks, i had to do it for the front door because of a broken lock and it has an extra rubber seal, but it worked after 2 cards!

Last time this happened I had to take the whole knob off the door. A 20-30 minute job. This time I used a book cover and the door was open in ten seconds. Thanks so much!

Wow! This really works! Used it to break into someone’s apartment. Thanks!

Amazing!! Thank you SO MUCH for this video!!!

You are a hero

Sir, i locked myself out of my house on a hot summer day, and u saved me. I am SO grateful for ur video, thanks so much!!!!

It really works. Saved a trip of the locksmith

Thank you ! It worked for me

Thank you !

It really worked for me; thanks a lot boss!!!

Omg!! It works! I was trying everything, but couldn't open the door. I found your video and followed your tip and the door opened like magic!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

Thank you so much. I didn't use the same tools as in the video, but the video gave me the idea to use my thin knife to pop my bathroom. It worked!!

Thank you so much Sir !!!

Thank you. It worked 😀👍👍👍. I used thin plastic from broken plastic lunch box

THANK YOU!!!!! The only vid that helped!!! All my cards were inside the locked room but I had a hard-ish plastic paper. The other vids didn’t work cuz the paper was thinner than a card, so every time I tried to push it downward it bent! Jiggling the plastic paper where lock was worked like a charm from the first try!! Thank you thank you thank yoooooooooooooooou 😭 It was too late to call a locksmith and they would have charged us an extra fees and I neeeeeeeeeded to get in the room!!! My phone and laptop were inside! Thank god the iPad was outside! That’s how I saw your video 😭😭

Thnx this helped, I got locked out of my bathroom until I put some card in there per instructions, so thnx to you I didn't needa break the door or call a lock Smith

Thank you mate - i destroyed an expired RSL plastic card - you're the best and saves me some $$$$

Thank you

it worked! i used the plastic cover from my notebook, thank you so much.

Omg it actually works!!! I used a credit card...you've got to be really tough with it ans jiggle it around a lot. Omg I'm so grateful!! Thanks a million!!

I used an A4 laminated sheet. It's worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

Took me an hour to figure it out. This worked!

cheers bro, this was a godsend. Old supermarket loyality card finally came in handy

Thank you, just opened mine

I did it wow thanks so much

Thanks a lot. It helped 😃

Thank you so much

Thanks a lot

Just tried the card way. Thank you

My neighbour got locked out and your technique worked like a dream 😅😅

The credit card worked! I had the correct tool but it didn't work. A laminated driver's license did not work, but a credit card did. It helped to picture the angle like you showed in the video. That was a case where a picture is worth 1000 words. Well done!

Saved my day 👍👍

Thank you so much...its really worked out..

Life saver!

Thank you so much!!!!!

We are in Australia and the kind of doors we have here in apartments, I wasn't thinking it will work but it did work ... thanks so much for saving my $250 to locksmith 🙏👍

Thankyou!

Thank you sooooooo much♥️

I just try it right now because I was locked outside of my bedroom, it works

Your video helped us! Many thanks!

Thanks!!!!

This is worth watching! This video helped me today!

Wow it really solved my bathroom lock my kid locked it this really helped great video life saver :)

Thanks bro. Using that plastic really helped. I added wd40 tu make it slide smoother

omg thankyou so much it’s 12am and i could not get into my bedroom and my door handle on the inside of my room was loose and broken! I cut off a piece from my plastic folder and wiggled it where the latch is on the side AND IT OPENED THANKYOU!!!!

Thank you this saved my life

thank you so much for this video. my granddad locked himself out of his bedroom at 4 in the am . its got no screws on the outside just like the one you pictured. i watched ur video, found a piece of hard plastic (that i just found the day before & was going to throw out, dont know where i had it from, but said no, if i throw it out, ill need it...isnt that weird?!) so i tried the shimming it thru the door liked you showed & a couple of tries & it WORKED!!!!! you dont know the relief for both of us!!! i would have had to call a locksmith, etc..i was going to try to take the hinges off ...the door has been in about 60 yrs or so & the hinge screw looked really hard in so i dont think id be able to remove those. so i taped over the 'inny' & "outy" parts where i got in & hopefully, he wont do that again until i can get new doorknobs WITHOUT locks on it. bathroom too! so thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

Thank you. You just helped me out right now.😀👍

Thankssss a lot it was very useful ❤❤❤

thankyou a lot

I’m stuck in my bedroom. I’m going to have to wait until someone wakes up and can do this from the other side, or maybe squeeze a screwdriver under the door. Oh well, at least it’s Sunday! Thank you so much for this! Wish me luck 🍀🤞 5 minutes later: Dang! It worked on the second try and I’m freeee! Woohoo 🥳 Thanks again, this is great to know!

Thank u!!!!

my bathroom door's handle is loose and faulty and got locked from the inside this morning right before I left for work and I was stressing all day over whether to bring in a locksmith or something after work was done, but then saw the credit card hack in this and tried it and yeah it took a couple tries but IT WORKED I know this video is from 3 years ago but thank you sooo much!

Not always that easy if the shim gets stuck at the metal latch plate on the door jamb. I used two shims, one soft cut from a PE bottle and one strong from a piece of 0.4 mm steel sheet. About 3 cm wide and 10 cm long. I used the hard shim to get the soft shim past the obstacle while wiggling the door back and forth. It finally worked after a few minutes.

Great 👍

I had an extremely stubborn door. I had to put force against the door so the top part would give a bit, then use that space to jam a gift card I had, then force slide it down towards the catch. With enough tugging, it opened the latch. Had to use some pliers to help with sliding it down tho. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VIDEO!!!

Me looking at this video while I'm stuck in my room now lol