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[jmoneybl]

Ok im kinda just here for some help. I have this doorknob lock on the bathroom closet door (just moved into this apartment). Why the lock requires a fricken key to open it I dont know. But anyway does anyone know a quick and easy way to get this shat open....

[zekeo]

The quick and easy way would be to call your landlord and get them to open it!

[Kayvon]

But anyway does anyone know a quick and easy way to get this shat open....

Yes:
1) Find the key.
2) Use it.

Seriously, though, learning how to pick a lock just for one lock will be a lot more trouble than you think (and more expensive if you don't already own all the lock-picking equipment). If you're serious about wanting to learn it anyway, I'd suggest you take a look at the MIT Lock Picking Guide (a quick Google search will find it for you). Otherwise, your best bet will be finding another way in, like going through a bathroom window (if there is one) and unlocking it from the inside or, if it comes down to it, removing the hinges. Then, if you still can't find the key, you might consider replacing the lock with a $10 indoor one from Wal-mart.

BTW, how are you getting along without a bathroom? I mean, the apartment only has one, right?

[MrB]

Ask the landlord.

[dry132]

Usually closet doors swing out into the room, so the hinges are accessible. A screwdriver will pop those suckers off, and you'll have the door free.

A much better way, however, is to spend the next 3 weeks learning how to pick locks, then it will be a triviality to open your own bathroom closet door, and you''ll have a great hobby to boot.

[Kayvon]

Ah! The bathroom closet. That makes a big difference and negates half of what I said earlier. Dry132 is right; just take the hinges off. If you can't pop out the pin in the hinges, unscrew them from the door entirely.
Or make the landlord do it.

[digital_blue]

I don't know about elsewhere, but in Canada it is standard that a bothroom door be installed hinges in (ie: inswing door). In that case, taking hinges off will not work. Also, I would imagine that the landlord doesn't have a key to this poor guy's bathroom. It is probably not a standard installation to have a keyed knob in a bathroom, so it was probably added by someone, and I seriously doubt if that person went and gave a key to the landlord.

So, if I'm right in the above, I say call a locksmith. That is why locksmiths exist! It is silly to take the time to learn to pick locks so you can open 1 lock. Just bite the bullet and call in a locksmith.

db

[dry132]

Whoah! DB, those must be some big bathroom closets. <jealousy>


Around here they're barely big enough to hold a few spare towels and some arse-paper; the only place that door is swinging is into the bathroom.

[digital_blue]

Um... er... uh.... yeah. (db searches for a way to save face... searching... nope) Upon closer inspection of the original post I now notice as well that we are talking about a closet *in a bathroom*. I was thinking bathroom closet, like "water closet". Since there's so many people from all over the world, I thought it was just, perhaps UK vernacular for bathroom.

So disregard everything I said, and pop the hinges off (like everybody else said).

Now I'm gonna run and hide in shame in my walk-in toilet paper closet.

db

[MrB]

Oh well, just to rub it in db:

1) Roselle doesn't sound like any place likely to be found in the UK
2) We don't have closets (we call them cupboards)
3) We wouldn't say fricken (more likely effing or bloody)
4) We don't have apartments (we call them flats)

As they say, two nations divided by a common language...

[MrB]

Oh, forgot to mention, there are no water closets either; WC is always pronounced "double-you-see".

[MrB]

"two nations divided by a common language"

Hmmm...I wonder if that applies to Canada too?

[Dent]

"two nations divided by a common language"

Hmmm...I wonder if that applies to Canada too?

I think that is:

"One common nation divided by two different languages"