It varies depending on the door.
How to break into a locked sliding glass door.
Breaking into my own house sliding glass door is useless.
For most doors especially doors that have been in place for a few years you can put push against the door then using pressure life and drop the door a few times.
As we briefly mentioned above the locks on most sliding glass doors are really just latches.
Jagged glass may be sharper than you think.
The third option is to actually lift the door out of its tracks.
One of the reasons that i like this double bolt option is that intruders have other options besides breaking the glass and jimmying the lock on the door.
Lifting it will probably also disengage the latch allowing you to slide the door open.
If there s any broken glass be incredibly careful.
How burglars break in through your sliding glass door.
Before we get into how to secure your sliding glass door we need to address how burglars may get in in the first place.
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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.
Just lift it but be careful because it is very heavy and awkward to handle.
The sliding door can usually be lifted about an inch then the bottom can be pushed in.
If your window has only partially popped free of the mounting try to reach either a set of keys the lock or the door handle.
After literally a few seconds the locks tend to fail to the point where you can simply slide the door open and gain access.
Slide the glass free of its mounting place it off to the side and enter your house through the empty window.
Normally installers would use suction cups to hold onto the door.