I have lost my keys.
I am not a criminal, looting mainiac.
I have just lost my keys and need to get in.

I have double glazed window with external beading and having once been burgled, I know it OS possible to prize off beading, cut the sealing hong and pop the window out with little damage.
Does anyone know how exactly this works?

Failing that, what are the options? Presumably locksmiths charge an absolute fortune?
Am in a real pickle here.
Any thoughts or help gratefully received.

Thank you.
Barn

What sort of door lock do you have?

The quadrant should be fairly easy to pop out. Slife a flat (preferably stiff) instrument inbetween the frame and quadrant, and prize it off. Keep working along untill you can remove the entire quadrant (and all the other sides.

If you have a “traditional” door (ie wood, single lock) they are fairly easy to break too. You will knacker the frame/lock/door though. I chose this method when I locked myself out (Windows were internally glazed!)

Smash the smallest window you can get away with, in order to gain entry. Assuming you have a Yale lock on doors, and non key locked latches on windows.

…no-one else got a spare key? Family member etc? It might work out cheaper to kip around a mates and have a key sent via special delivery.

Have you got a credit card on you? And what type of lock is it?

I tried the credit card thing and snapped the card – then used it to pay a locksmith 🙄

Yale lock, standard ol lever jobbie (with a “London Bar” holding the female bracket in place and a sigle Chubb.

Patio window by any chance?

phone a locksmith, cheaper than repairing a window

The beading will come off dead easy with a screwdriver. Totally depends on whether the DG is bonded to the frame – if it isn’t it will lift straight out. If it is, it would be cheaper to get a locksmith than a new DG unit.

See if you can remove the rubber gasket that is found between the plastic glazing bead and the double glazed unit. This will make removing the glazing bead easier.

Do you want to do this through email- info@simoncarter.es rather than publishing it here?

@ don simon – good call, will mail as it keeps this stuff off air.

@ Piha – ditto, ps I remember you from the SdW in a day mission recently!

Am going to drive now, am still 2 hrs from home, so will mail for some advice in the morning.

Thanks all

Done similar a couple of years ago, which was on Christmas eve
had to knock on the neighbours door and explain and climb over
the wall and smash the window with an hammer and then repairing
it before meeting the Mrs .
Only thing was forgotten to tell the mrs and when we came back she was in total
panic.

I watched an episode of X files years ago and there was some chap who managed to fit down a chimney. You could give that a go if all else fails.

Dont eat anyones liver though.

Just do like I did 7 days before Christmas after a monster sesh,and a ruck with a cabby. Throw a rock through the patio doors! Seemples!!!

Sorry, I’ve been having a nice hot bath. You in yet?

Reports TSY for not paying attention.

I was just wondering the same thing as TSY! OTherwise pop to local plod shop and ask for local burglars tel number they’ll be around in a shot especially if you give them teh sat nav.. WAY cheaper than a locksmith!!

Beading will come out easily, glass shouldn’t as it will be (or should be) attached to the frame with windows security tape.

Door locks may be bumpable though…..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock_bumping

Sorry, I’ve been having a nice hot bath. You in yet?

Yes. I’m behind you!

Muhahahahahah!

*passes Jamie the loofah*

Cheers, now this may sting a bit.

I spent ages while drunk carefully removing a windowpane so I could get in… Obviously I then dropped the windowpane.

Some hilarious posts!
You lot have certainly made my little ‘end-of-holiday’ mini drama a lot more amusing.

Have decided not to attack windows tonight.
Will try and get it sorted early tomorrow, I think the neighbours and police will prefer it.

Kip in car.
Hopefully no one will nick my Cotic off the roof while I’m asleep!

I locked myself out a few weeks ago. Thought about what to do for a minute or so.

Got a step ladder from my unlocked garage.

Climbed onto the conservatory roof via the party wall that separates our house from next door and then in though an open bedroom window. Took about 30 seconds, probably not much point locking the house when I go out.

8 iron into the small window by the back door got me into my house.

Good job my shed was unlocked and the spiders webs weren’t totally hiding the clubs!

you have to hit double glazing surprisingly hard to get it to smash.

Makes me laugh, threads like this. 😀

Is he in yet?

8 iron into the small window by the back door got me into my house.

you have to hit double glazing surprisingly hard to get it to smash

It will if you use the wrong club. You need a putter for putting a window in.

I once used a hasp to turn my chub lock inside my front door in newcastle. Just stuck it through the letterbox and managed to get it to turn. I was quite fortunate that my next door neighbour had a hasp lying there. I had just triple dropped and faced the prospect of a manic taxi journey to my folks house to get the spare keys before I came up or accept that I would be locked out of the house for at least three days.

Call your house insurance company and they’ll arrange for it to be sorted.

Have you got in yet?

I’ve been really worried about you. Well, I didn’t lose any sleep in my luxurious king size bed with egyptian cotton sheets, but I was a little concerned.

I forgot to take a house key with me to work a few weeks ago, I got home and everyone was out. I got in worryingly easily, the hardest part was climbing over the back garden gate in motorbike leathers. 😕

Am in!!!!!
Phew.

So, broke into sisters house (far too easily) and slept there for a few hours.
Got hold of a mate who had keys at 6am, dumped car & cycled cross town to meet her, then hacked it back across town.

In the end I was only 20 mins late for work and the whole thing cost me nout, which is a big result!

Thanks again for funny comments – kept me going through a confused and rather sleepless night.