A locking doorknob or lockset on your bedroom door is properly called a privacy lockset this means that you can lock the door from inside the room and in most cases you cannot unlock it with a key from the other side of the door as you can with an entry lockset.
How to unlock a bedroom door with a lever handle.
Anyone who has installed a bedroom door lock may have noticed a short steel rod with a flat tip at one end.
If you accidentally locked your bedroom door lock bathroom door lock or any other door in your house though a butter knife is certainly one of the best methods to open it without a locksmith.
Just insert the screwdriver into the small hole and press the button on the inside of the handle with it to unlock the door.
These often get discarded with the box the lock came.
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How to unlock bedroom door locks.
So what do you do if you accidentally lock yourself out of your bedroom or your kid locks the door not so accidentally.