This video contains excellent albeit unspoken advice regarding door chains: Don't use them.
Peepholes, people, peepholes.
How to unlock a door chain from the outside using tape and a rubber band
Watch this very funny glass door prank
Well played and certainly worth the effort:
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— Tyrantasorus (@tyrantasorus) November 2, 2018
Some hotel room doors can easily be unlocked with a piece of paper
"Using only the paper pizza menus that were pushed under our door during the day, I can shim open our hotel room door defeating both the striker and the top swing arm latch in under 30 seconds," writes MM Developer. "Faster times can be achieved if you aren't trying to video."
A cool way to turn a window into a door
Last weekend, I visited St. Louis and got to catch up with some friends who live in an old brick house in that city's South Grand/Tower Grove neighborhood. (Which is awesome, by the way. After hearing nothing but bad news about St. Louis for years, I was pleasantly surprised by great, thriving neighborhoods like this one.)
There's a little porch off one of the upstairs windows, facing the street. But, at first, it's not entirely clear how you get out onto it. But, whoever built this old house had a clever trick up their sleeve — and it's one I'd never seen in action before. That's a picture of the closed window above. Read the rest
