Break Into Sliding Glass Door

Basically you put the locking portion on the door at any height you want and the receiver at the same height on the door frame.

Break into sliding glass door.

Jump sliding glass doors off their track to gain access. The l shaped latch on the door connects with the bracket typically pivoting up from the bottom to lock the door. Be careful not to drill all the way through. Lifting it will probably also disengage the latch allowing you to slide the door open.

Insert a screwdriver or pry bar between the door frame and the door about 6 inches from the corner diagonal from the latch at the bottom and pry upward. Since most older sliding glass doors work with a small hook locking mechanism that comes down and catches a pin and the glass is only secured in position by its hangers the overlap of the inner glass and an exterior metal lip you physically have to lift the door off the track. To prevent burglars from simply removing your door from the track add a security pin. Most sliding glass doors opposed to traditional hinged doors are not directly fastened to your home s structure.

Otherwise just pull real hard and break the latch plate. Lboogie is right if it is an older door you have to lift it off the track. With your sliding door securely closed drill a hole through the frame of the door that slides and into the frame of the stationary door. Have a sliding glass door on your back patio.

A thief can literally be in your home 7 10 seconds and long gone with your stuff before police arrive. Might as well just leave your house wide open. Then insert a hardened steel patio door pin to hold. Normally installers would use suction cups to hold onto the door.

When you want the door locked you slide the two bolts into the receiver and your door is secure. A rear sliding glass door on the second story of the residence was shattered and the master bedroom was ransacked. More than 2 000 worth of jewelry and the victim s house key was taken. When the bottom of the panel clears the frame tilt the bottom of the door toward your feet out of the track and down to remove it.

It s a double bolt sliding door lock. Insert a screwdriver between the track and the bottom of the panel and pry up to lift the door out of the track. The sliding door can usually be lifted about an inch then the bottom can be pushed in. See how easy it is to get open from the outside.