On Apr 25, 2:41*pm, GMM GlMiMa-AT-yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On 24/04/2013 22:06, The Medway Handyman wrote:

On 24/04/2013 16:43, paulfoel wrote:
Tried taking door handle off and turning with pliars etc but it just
seem to turn enough to open the latch.

What are my options? All I can see at the moment is kick the door
in....

This is a very common problem, I carry 2 of each length & finish of
mortice latch in the van. Probably do up to a dozen a year.

I've never managed to get one to retract via the handle aperture.

As in taking off the handle and turning the bar? *I suspect I would have
managed a couple of weeks ago when I went out into the garden and the
door slammed behind me, disconnecting the handle from the bar in the
sashlock. *Only problem was that my tools were inside and I was outside!

Had to climb over the hedge and get teh neighbour to let me through to
the front.

It turned out that the bar had cut off short so had had dropped away
from one handle and had disappeared into the other, so easy to open from
the other side. *Decided it was time for a whole new handle.

when a new bar would have done ;)

Jim K