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Harry Bloomfield
 
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Default How do I break open a leaver lock?

On 24/02/2004 Lasitha a wrote :
I have a aluminium/glass internal door with a 3 or 5 leaver Union
lock. When I tried to open the door this morning, the key broke. The
broken part is stuck inside the lock. I don't have a spare key. How do
I open the door without paying £75 to a locksmiths?.


Your only options are to try to get the broken bit out, perhaps with a
pair of long nosed pliers, to attack the door frame or the door itself
which ever might prove the cheaper to repair.

If you can get the broken bit out, you should be able to then get a new
key made up which hopefully will not break.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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