Deadbolt stuck inside door

A stuck deadbolt? We can help.

Trying to open a stuck deadbolted door can cause quite a bit of stress and panic.

But hopefully, with this article, we can show you that it can be unstuck without the need to take the whole door off!

Yale deadbolt stuck in locked position

There are a lot of reasons that a deadbolt can get stuck, it might just need a little lubrication or the door may have slipped off of its alignment, just stopping it from locking in the right way.

Lubricating the Lock set

The first thing to do straight off of the bat is to try lubricating the lock; this especially works if the key only goes partially into the lock, but it’s not going all the way in and not turning.

The best thing to do is use a bottle of graphite powder, but there is a couple of other stuff like penetrating oil or even something like WD-40; any lubricating liquid will do the job.

Just bring the nozzle of whatever liquid you’re trying to use to the key opening and spray it in, and after that, it should be okay.

If there is a little more turning, but it st

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