How To Drill Out Door Lock

Drill a hole through the lock cylinder through the guidance point.

How to drill out door lock.

The goal is to drill through the pin tumblers not the keyway itself. For flat sided deadbolts you typically drill two overlapping 7 8 inch holes centered about 5 16 inch above and below the horizontal center line. For security reasons some locks are specially. With the hole centerline marked out it s time to drill.

Make sure drilling the lock is your only option. This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side. At the line intersection use a spade bit to drill a hole for the bolt as directed by the lock manufacturer. This destroys the pins inside the lock cylinder.

Drilling a lock will thoroughly destroy it. You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side. Certain locks are not going to open as easily as others even with drilling. How to drill different cylinder locks including very poor footage of one being drilled.

I recently bought a house my wife thought it would be a good idea to shut the door to one of the rooms. These type of pins are made out of hardened steel so that they are harder than the drill bit. Don t just drill from one side. Unfortunately not all locks can be drilled.

Aim the drill into the area just above the keyway. Drilling the lock 1. Once you ve drilled through and broken the pins you may need to insert a flat screwdriver to retract the latch and open the door. There is no point in drilling a lock that has anti drill pins.

This room happened to have a key ed lock on it that. Understand the lock well enough to drill it properly. How to drill out a lock step 1. Switch to a slightly larger bit.

Get your gear together. Drill out the lock cylinder.