How to imperceptibly spoil the door lock from a neighbor

From the reliability of the door lock depends on the tranquility of the residents of a house or apartment. But there are situations when you want to break it. This usually does not concern the locking structures on his door, but the neighbor's one, in order to avenge him for inappropriate behavior. The article will tell you how to imperceptibly ruin a door lock, and correct it if necessary.

Causes of conflicts with neighbors

Sometimes revenge covers a person with a head. But it must be fed, metered, cold.

The reasons for it can be:

• In the apartment building, frequent and big noise from cheerful companies that collect neighbors from above.
• Tired of a neighbor who produces forever repairs. And the buzzing perforator prevents not only the small children from sleeping, but also brings an adult to neurosis.
• Gossip neighbors, envy.
• The incessant cry of a baby.
• Canine howl and barking.
• Smoking on the landing, which leads to the penetration of tobacco smoke in the apartment.

If no persuasions and pleas help to get rid of such troubles, the question arises, what to do? Often the first thing that comes to mind: to break the lock - then the neighbor will not come out to smoke, guests will not be able to quickly get to him.

Ways to ruin a castle

Tip: Before spoiling a door lock with a neighbor, you should remember the criminal code, its article providing for administrative or criminal punishment for deliberate damage or destruction of property.

You can spoil the lock on the neighbor's door in different ways, which depend on the type of lock and the presence of certain tools, some of which are shown in the photo.

The most banal ways to spoil the door lock are:

• Fill in the keyhole instant glue. Such a composition instantly blocks all functions of the device.

• The use of cold welding.

• Keyhole Filling with Pins, toothpicks or other small items.

• Hammering in the key hole of the coins. It is quite easy to do in the level locks, which have large keyhole sizes.
• Application foam, spoiling, both the lock, and a door upholstery.

• Sticking mechanism chewing gum.
• Screwing into the larva of the lock screw.

• Special breakdown of a similar key in the keyhole. This often happens when an apartment is robbed, when you need to find a key suitable for the lock.

• Breakage of the padlock with wrenches.

Tip: To spoil the lock imperceptibly, you need to press hard, but smoothly on the door handle, until a crunch appears. This breaks the latch tongue design and gets stuck in the opening between the door leaf and the box that locks the door.

Troubleshooting methods

A situation where a neighbor is damaged when a castle breaks down can boomerang back to you. Then the question is how to fix the lock?

In this case:

• To remove the glue from the keyhole, you can try to use tools to dissolve it.which can be:

1. Alcohol.
2. Acetone.
3. Vegetable oil.
4. Vinegar.
5. Soda.

If this method is not effective, the lock cylinder will have to be replaced.

• To remove cold weld, which is used similarly to the adhesive composition, you can use:

1. Acetone.
2. White Spirits.
3. Gasoline.
4. Dimethylsulphoxide.

• To pull the chewing gum out of the lockIts larva should be frozen and then the pieces removed with a sharp object. The material crumbles easily.

Removing a broken key from the lock

In order for the price of work to be minimal, if a key fragment is found in a keyhole, you need to try to pull it out, and make new keys for the two halves in the workshop.

Instructions for releasing the keyhole suggests:

• Put some grease in the keyhole several times, wait until it spreads all over the debris and the lock mechanism. It can be gun or engine oil.
• The easiest way is to remove the key from the disassembled lock. But this is if the door is open.
• If a bit of a key sticks out of a well, it can be tried to be grabbed with round pliers or tweezers, without making a lot of effort.

• You can push two thin awls in the gap between the keyhole and the fragment from above and below and try to extract part of the key.

• Jewelry, but quite effective way - the use of screws. To do this, a thin hole is drilled in the face of the debris. The screw of the corresponding diameter is screwed into it. Holding the part by the cap, a piece of the lock is carefully “caught”.

In order to better present all the operations associated with damage to the castle and its repair, you can carefully watch the video in this article. And it is best to try not to quarrel with neighbors, and repair the castle to perform only in exceptional cases.