How to fix an exterior door that won t open.
Front door wont open from inside or outside.
This is usually easier to do from the inside especially if you ve got either harsh weather or glaring sunlight outside.
Looking through the crack at the latch i think that s the word for it the metal part that goes inside the door when you move the handle it won t retract into the door completely.
If there are no gaps anywhere around the door you may have swollen wood or frozen hardware.
You can take a long screw driver of piece of drill rod and manipulate the lever that opens the latch to get the door open and make repairs as needed.
This video is for when you can t open your door from either the inside or the outside not both if you can t open your door from both the inside and outside.
If it is engaged the door will not open from the inside by design.
Remove the inner door handle.
Then the door stopped opening altogether.
Roll the window down and carefully push the door panel away at the top right above the latch rear of door then look down inside the door at the latch and figure out which rod fell of the latch.
There will either be a screw in the center of the handle or a retaining clip on the back side of the handle.
Remove the window crank in cars with manual windows.