Wooden garage door with mortice lock which will not open?
The garage wooden door has a standard mortice lock, which seems to be jammed in the locked position. The keys have no obvious damage and I have tried the lock with both keys from both sides, but the lock will not open. The key will turn about about 1/6th of the way around and then no further. I think if I forced it, the key would snap first. Is there any way to remove the lock without breaking the door down?
You do not describe the door but no matter - presumably the mortice lock has a tenon that fits into a mortice slot in an adjacent door - you might consider forcing the two doors apart - or if that's not possible - from the inside - chiselling out the timber around the mortice piece and - once the doors are open - fitting a better quality lock and making good the damage on the mortice side.
Given that you might intend to do as I suggest then there's little point in not trying to force the key just in case that works for you.
Good Luck...
December 2015
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