Couldn't get into the ***** shed!

[Deleted member 1258]

Try warming the key with a cigarette lighter or a barbecue lighter. The lock on the side gate at work had a frozen lock on it, I borrowed a cigarette lighter and had it open in a couple of minutes.

 

[Downward]

Or just don't lock them.
If by chance some thief does brave the cold what difference will it make if they are locked or unlocked unless your shed is really really secure because lets face it if Mr thief is after your stuff he will be well equipped.

 

[garrilla]

This isn't usually the case. Most shed burglaries are done by opportunists out to make £40 for their next bag of brown. They travel untooled in case they are stopped by the police, who usually know them pretty well.

The easiest way for them to get in is by bending the shed door from the bottom and reaching in for something like a spade or a fork. They can't do this with mine. One has been scared off twice now, once by the shed alarm and the other time by our lovely neighbours.

Here's one I made earlier...
http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=51703

 

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Ultimate tip (but I've not tried it) is to pee on the lock.

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Excellent! It certainly saves you the trip back to the house for the kettle...

 

[Arch]

I got in to find two colleagues struggling with the frozen padlock - having bent one key in it! I held it in my bare hand for a while, and then it worked - not sure if that was coincidence...

I'll bung a lighter in my pannier for tomorrow.

 

[2Loose]

Cold heart, warm hands perhaps Arch?

Save the lighter eh.

 

[Arch]

Cold heart, warm hands perhaps Arch?

Save the lighter eh.

I did get a lighter out to take, but found that it was so old that the wheel bit was seized up. I took matches instead, but once again my hand did the trick.