How to fix stuck privacy lock?

[bmghauri]

My child ‘accidentally’ pushed the lock button from inside and closed the bathroom door when came out and now i am unable to open the lock. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

 Cheers!

[EricL]

Hello @bmghauri 

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community. It's sensational to have you join us and thanks for sharing your question about your privacy lock.

If you have a standard door frame where the door trim is attached separately, I can only suggest using a sharp timber chisel and lifting it off the frame. This will give you access to the latch and you can use a cake icing spatula or similar to slide and shimmy down the gap and force the latch to slot in which will allow you to open the door. In its current configuration there are no emergency release options available.  

Let me call on our experienced members @Dave-1 and @Noyade for their recommendations.

If you have any other questions we can help with, please let us know.

Eric

[Dave-1]

Good Evening @bmghauri 

Been there, done that (well had it done to me before lol)

There may be a pin hole on the underside of the handle the size of a small skewer. Poke a skewer into it and it may unlock the handle. 

Any other suggestions will destroy the lock itself 😕 and the first one I have is a hard sharp twist of the handle whcih will wreck the locking mechanisim but hopefully turn the handle and blade into the door.

It looks like the two fixing screws have had a grinder used on them before? They are held in place via the whole handle and screwed from the otherside so I wouldnt try a repeat of that

If there is no obvious pin hole could you take a photo of the underside of the handle please? and also if you have other same styled locks in your house could you take a photo of the other side on one of them?

Dave

[bmghauri]

Thanks @EricL .

 Thanks @Dave-1, we recently moved into this property and you are right about the use of grinder on the screws and it’s not just on the two side ones but there is another screw which has had a grinder used on it too as shown in the picture. I couldn’t find any pin hole. And also, there is only this lock which is different from the rest. It’s locking mechanism is like we have to push the button from the top to lock and the push the button from the bottom to unlock from inside. 

Thanks for your time and advice.

kind regards,

Bilal

[Dave-1]

Morning @bmghauri 

See that hole in under the handle? Can you use the blunt end of a skewer and push that in? I am hoping you will hear/feel a "click" as that is the usual place for a safety release. You may need to move the handle a little while you push the "button/pin" with the skewer but hopefully not.

Dave

[bmghauri]

Thanks @Dave-1. 

I have given it a shot but unfortunately the button didn’t budge and the door remained locked. 

I think I should better call a locksmith to figure it out.

I really appreciate your time and advice.

 Cheers 

[Dave-1]

Good Afternoon @bmghauri 

😕 yeah my thoughts were heading that way as well. I would make sure that the replacement lock has that safty pin on it

Good Luck

Dave