Have you ever been in a situation that you’re standing in front of your home front door locked out, while it might seems hard to believe, it has happened to many people and more often than you think.
When people are rushing out leave their house for work they are in a lot of stress to make it on time and sometimes they accidentally forget their keys inside locking themselves out.
Here are 5 steps you can take to avoid this awkward situations if happen to you:
Check if any of your windows or back door are unlocked
The first thing to do after you calmed down is to check around the house and look for any unlocked windows or if you are lucky and your back door wasn’t locked.
While it is important to make sure you haven’t left your back door or your home windows unlocked when leaving the house, there’s a chance you or a family member may have forgotten to lock one and you may find an easy way back in.
You might have a spare key somewhere
Many homeowners make spare keys and give them to nearby family member, close friend and even their neighbors just in case.
Other even go further than that and hide their spare keys in a secure location around the house, so if you are just call who ever you gave your spare key and have him come over or go out and dig your spare key from where ever you hide it, now is the right time for that!
Call a local locksmith
If all your doors and windows are locked and you can’t find someone you’ve trusted with your spare key available to deliver it, the next best thing is to call a local locksmith.
An expert locksmith should be able to reach your home within half an hour to an hour and he is supposed to get you back in safely and quickly, the best option is to choose a locksmith that offers emergency services.
Avoid tampering with your own locks
While waiting for a locksmith you might be tempted to try and unlock your door yourself using some methods you watched on YouTube, things like a credit card or using a hairpin trying to pick the locks.
It is highly important to avoid doing that because you can cause more serious damage and still left locked out, it is better to wait patiently for a professional instead of risking harm to your door.
Head to your neighbors house and wait for the locksmith
While waiting for a locksmith you could go and visit your neighbors and see how they’re doing.
They probably won’t mind if you hang out till the locksmith arrive instead of stranding outside.
Getting locked out can be really annoying and instead of stranding, but if you spending your time waiting for the locksmith with people you know, time will fly and when the locksmith arrive you’ll be back inside in no time.
