OP pain and suffering almost worth it for opportunity to watch this.
That doesn’t bode well.
And another note of appreciation for Thudlow Boink’s link post above. Check it out. Brief but worth the trip!
Well, she was protected by a silver spoon.
What I would say is if the locksmith could cut the bolt with a reciprocating hacksaw, then the lock was cheap rubbish! Any quality lock will have hardened steel pins in the bolt to prevent criminals doing just the same thing.
Perhaps it’s worth pointing out that in order for the hacksaw blade to access the bolt (between the door and the jamb), the operator of the saw needed to be inside the apartment already. Which, in this instance, he was.
And yes, the lockset was cheap enough and rubbishy enough to fail in such a way as to effectively trap us on one side of the door.
I’m late to this thread but upon reading it I wondered why, when you were trapped in the apartment, you didn’t remove the hinges and just take the door out backwards.
Bubbadog
Who has actually had to do that though less dramatically for an interior door.
The reciprocating saw will make one hell of a lot of noise, what prevents criminals from such activity are the windows … a much quieter access point into your homes.