I have the strap and the screw-down doorstop wedge style devices. I was staying in a hotel over the weekend that wasn't sketchy, but when my keycard stopped working after the first night, I asked the person at the front desk to get it recoded, and wasn't asked to show ID, or even know the name the room was checked out under. All I said was which room number it was. I don't think the employee was the same one who checked me in either, so it's not like I was recognized.
I've probably still got the apology note somewhere, very high end establishment but I can still picture the night I was woken up by someone coming in to my room around 1am in the morning with a key card, apparently reception accidentally double booked the room, I don't know who was more surprised, the guests looking to get it on, or myself who was woken up, add in the language barrier and it was quite the scene, although quite funny looking back on it.
That is very dangerous .. the hotel could have caused those people to end the night with extra holes in them.... should not wait to see if the intruder is going to open fire .. damn.
@@olenilsen4660 Nothing from the event unfortunately, I was still half naked in bed, just recall this happy, chatty couple standing in my doorway, lit by the hallway lighting.
@@edgarcornette6387his is why "opening fire would be stupid" plus if you are in a hotel you'd have to be checking the laws, I don't think castle doctrine would have your back in a hotel room... I'm a in "make my day" state. You do that here and you go to jail for a long time. You could only do that MAYBE in a "stand your ground" state.
I think the added lock is a good idea for a couple reasons. If you do end up needing to use force to repel an invader, they can't claim 'oops, wrong room', when they had to intentionally shoulder/kick a door. It also shows violent intent and supports your decision to use force to defend yourself.
I get the impression these don't even work as well as a cheap doorstop! A simple rubber wedge with teeth on the bottom to dig into the carpet will deform when pushed hard but likely get more stuck, not less if someone's attempting violent entry. The strap still seems like the best choice but in a pinch I think I'd definitely trust something tried and true over some gimmicky solution that's basically "what if a wedge, but instead of bracing it against the floor we braced it against a few mm of aluminum?"
I could imagine taking a coat hanger or something like a finger and pushing the door stop out from the bottom gap of a door. It might even be sticking out to the outside. Door stop is mainly for wind eh.
Really like the real-world experience with these products. Their low cost makes it easy to review. I once got a zero-dark-thirty rude awakening at a hotel in Des Moines, IA. Turned out someone with a very similar name to mine (I presume a Jared Johnson, I've encountered a few) had also booked a room in that same hotel on the same night and the front desk thought they'd booked one person into two rooms so they "checked" my room.... after they had already disturbed me with a phone call.
Sometimes it's not even a malicious reason someone's entering. We fortunately had the flip lock on, but had a situation where the front desk checked people into the wrong room (ours) in the middle of the night and they were just trying to get into the room they were told with the room key. Not a fun thing to wake up to and management apologized profusely after and comped nights for us.
I don't travel often and travel light enough to never care to try these products but that strap looks easy to pack. I do own a giant door stop bar that wedges under the door handle from when i was renting rooms and it works very well.
Curious if you ever heard of a product called the swedge? It was a failed product my grandfather tried to market in the '90s. Basically a door wedge with velcro on the bottom and an alarm if a person tried to push through it. A cursory google search didn't bring anything up about it, but this video made me think of it. Definitely intersting to see an application for a product that we kind of thought was ridiculous at the time.
One trick I have used when staying at a hotel/motel is to place one of the chairs against the door. It works best if the back of the chair is a little higher than the handle of the lockset. Place the back of the chair underneath the handle and jam the chair legs against the carpet.
Dev, it might sound too simple, but I've used plain old Spalding rubber balls, one or two of them on the floor behind the door stops it from opening. Yes, someone can pop them out of the way pushing them from the outside, but if they don't know it's there it works. Just a random thought, take care and relax :)
@@FusionDeveloper Yes it does, we did it as kids to keep each other out of our bedrooms. The doors go up a bit, but they won't budge more than half an inch.
I have always wondered how you have such a good complexion 👍 ..... and the toe separators means you painted your nails???😳 Thanks for putting yourself through this to give us a giggle..... and informed!
What i love is that basically every hotel door including the one used here has that flip down sliding bar that does the same job as a door chain (but possibly better) You know, a device meant to be secured only from the inside to stop someone coming into an occupied room. Are they impenetrable? No, you could probably get it undone with an under door tool, but if you're shouldering the door you won't know it's done up until you slam into it and at that point altered the occupants. It's not perfect but it's absolutely better than these gimmicks. Also, what of someone came up with something that fits over the knob on those door bars, or into the slot on a chain to keep a blind under/over door attack from undoing it? That seems like it would be relatively easy to make and a lot more effective
those i could actually use as a joke prop for a haunted house costume. i like telling customers "see you at home" when they walk away when im in character lol
@@olenilsen4660 well, that is a thing not to love, but I also think that this is simply a risk acceptance issue. I choose when to use the strap and when it seems unnecessary. There are layers of self defense to be employed in a hotel setting as well and this is one option.
You might find the Australian QickLock, its basically the same design but reduced to its simplest/cheapest. It only has one central tongue and the wedge is replaced with a steel pin. I havent seen a hotel door with a manual deadbolt here in Australia in at least a decade. & Its all card access.
All the hotels I've stayed at in Australia & New Zealand the last few years have locks pretty much the same as the examples in this video, but they tend to be international hotel chains.
Part of me is waiting to see if this is going to spawn into a homebrew project to make a addalock-like product, lets call it the "addadeviant", for hotel room use that actually meets most of the security needs. Maybe after testing the viewer suggestions, there can be a video of hotel room security best practice suggestions.
This reminds me of when I worked at that sketchy hotel a few years ago and had to run junkies out of the stairwells. One of them tried jamming the door shut with a folding knife so they could smoke uninterrupted, but I just had to put some shoulder into it and I had a free knife for my collection, lol.
Back when I lived in a boarding school dorm I used to work at a pine mill making furniture as my part-time job in helping to pay my own tuition Anyway... I lovked the door by drilling a hanger sized hole through the dead bolt and the retractable door handle button/bolt By drilling a tiny bit through the metal I would insert a bent hanger into the hole. Regardless of who was on the other side they could not open the door handle ir boot because they didn't know what was stopping it. Not that this can be done at hotels, there are covert ways to use similar "wedges". But pound for pound I do like the strap idea, I feel it would be more compatible with most hotels
A deer cam or nanny cam can be handy. Not really security as it doesn’t lock anything, and if someone takes that too then your evidence is gone. I used my deer cam for about the first week or so during a long contract job. My set up was less than perfect. But after observing that the staff was only interested in spending as little time in the room as possible, I quit fooling with it. I had it placed in an obvious area, but only one employee barely gave it a glance. There are better or more appropriate products out there, but it’s what I had in a pinch.
Does anything change for these if you also use the little flip latch or do those let the door open enough to break the Addalock and friends so you just need more steps to break in? Underdoor tool to get past the keycard and deadbolt, shoulder check the addalock, and then any of the normal tricks to get past the flip latch?
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How about a small F-clamp on the thumb turn, its tail sticking up so it's blocked by the door handle? That would prevent the thumb turn from being turned, would it not?
omfg I saw the thumbnail and thought 'oh wow, I really hope deev has done this whole thing like that but nah, that's just photoshop' and now I'm silently laughing.
I wanna know how to store firearms in a hotel room. I put mine in a hard case or locked bag with Pacsafe mesh, and then use a cable lock through a hard point (usually plumbing fixture). This is fine for housekeeping but someone with nippers could get through this setup. What do you recommend? This could be a video 😁
I don't know how, but if there was something on the flat side when assembled to help support against the door frame and keep the plate from bending the wedge out of the way, it might work a bit better. Big burly guy will still be able to go through regardless, though.
I travel a lot for work, and I’m noticing a trend towards an electronic “toggle” or “lockout” in lieu of mechanical deadbolts. The grip strap doesn’t seem like it would work in this case, any suggestions?
That door strap you use would be useless at the Hotel I used to work at. Their dead bolts, if you can call them that, were electronically activated. The turn-knob was merely a switch and not physically connected to the deadbolt. That presented multiple problems itself...especially when the batteries would die.
What about some sort of machined aluminum or steel device that goes over the hinges? Would that work? I haven't seem anything like that, but I'm just curious....
What about a slightly beefier chain that was put around the door handle keep the plate from bending outward when pressure was applied? Still probably be able to force it open but it seems the issue is more so the plate bending and not the mechanism breaking.
1:08 Did you take her up on her offer? lol I think a product would have to be made in USA for it to even have a chance. As for the strap, and really all other devices I know, they seem good for when you are in the room (which is the most important), but there seems to be nothing for when you are out apart from maybe Sparrows Hotel Keys but you may have to answer to house keeping for using those.
Weird they try to hold the door with those blocks that hang in the slot. Why not just have a nice steel bar that extends through the flat metal part on both sides? I can think of a few ways it could be attached and detached, but bracing against the door AND the frame with a chunk of metal like that aluminium one wouldn't enable it to be bypassed by bending the thin flat metal part sideways...
@@olenilsen4660 hahah, last thing I need is ANOTHER business to be starting 🤣 Nah, I hereby place that idea in the public domain - bet there's plenty of prior art anyways.
I lived in an apartment and it had a fire door. The deadbolt was pushed in n somehow and broke the deadbolt lock itself where turning the lock. No longer worked to set the deadbolt for securing the door. Wasn't around at the time to see how it was done but they stole lots of stuff from my Bridgeport apartment in Connecticut. Good bye stereo equipment, pillow cases, stuff from the refrigerator, and boxes I was bringing back to the apartment as I'm getting ready to move out of the state of Connecticut. Not sure how they broke the deadbolt.
Seems to me that the loose tolerances are the failure point. The loose fit allows too much movement, which makes the shoulder attack more effective. I'm curious how a tight fitting version would hold up, but that wouldn't work in general hotels either way and the griplock is a better alternative.
These seemed okay in pictures but the video makes the problem obvious. The wobbling that occurs when you pushed on the door. There should be some mechanism to ensure that whenever someone outside applies force to the device it will be perpendicular to it. The idea is ensure that all the forces will be directed towards attempting to compress the metal plate and the wedge. Those bits are easy to bend but trying to compress them should present a decent challenge.
Maybe these would work better if you add a second wedge on the other side of the steel. That way you can´t simply bend the sheet metal part out of the way.
Looks like a tolerance issue. The flaps should be as high (and shape) as the tongue of the door. This design will fail as the door itself is pushed apart as soon the flap skips from the hole. Guess someone from the ux department had issues having metal claws sticking out... this few mm tolerance is very common at least in europe. And the hinge will give about 2mm more as pressed up & away.
are you ever concerned about a potential lock-IN problem? for example, you have your grip strap on the door and have a medical emergency where you cant make it to the door to remove it. what would you do?
Seems like it’d be more effective if you just brought a doorstop or two and just wedged them in at the bottom, at the cost of having to pry them out each time..
Looks like they need to not cheap out on the metal plate and use either spring steel or titanium. Both of which would be beyond what any cheap product will ever provide.
people like you remind me that locks are just a suggestion of security, it'll delay them enough that it makes noise and lets you know they are trying to get in
If they made it so that you couldn't bend that thin metal piece, you wouldn't be able to insert it in the door, but if you could then it would probably hold. But why keep engineering a faulty product when there is a working one.
Finally I don't feel so crazy for taking my Makita impact, an oak 2x3, and a stud finder.
👍😂👍 I like the way you think!
that'll keep em locked real good!
I have the strap and the screw-down doorstop wedge style devices. I was staying in a hotel over the weekend that wasn't sketchy, but when my keycard stopped working after the first night, I asked the person at the front desk to get it recoded, and wasn't asked to show ID, or even know the name the room was checked out under. All I said was which room number it was. I don't think the employee was the same one who checked me in either, so it's not like I was recognized.
5:04 - "privacy communication product" is going to be a phrase I now attempt to work into everyday conversation
I've probably still got the apology note somewhere, very high end establishment but I can still picture the night I was woken up by someone coming in to my room around 1am in the morning with a key card, apparently reception accidentally double booked the room, I don't know who was more surprised, the guests looking to get it on, or myself who was woken up, add in the language barrier and it was quite the scene, although quite funny looking back on it.
So you DID get it on? I´m confused... Do you have any pics from the event?
That is very dangerous .. the hotel could have caused those people to end the night with extra holes in them.... should not wait to see if the intruder is going to open fire .. damn.
@@olenilsen4660 Nothing from the event unfortunately, I was still half naked in bed, just recall this happy, chatty couple standing in my doorway, lit by the hallway lighting.
@@edgarcornette6387his is why "opening fire would be stupid" plus if you are in a hotel you'd have to be checking the laws, I don't think castle doctrine would have your back in a hotel room... I'm a in "make my day" state. You do that here and you go to jail for a long time. You could only do that MAYBE in a "stand your ground" state.
@@edgarcornette6387 You are everything wrong with the world. "Shoot first, ask questions later". You are the opposite of responsible gun ownership
I think the added lock is a good idea for a couple reasons. If you do end up needing to use force to repel an invader, they can't claim 'oops, wrong room', when they had to intentionally shoulder/kick a door. It also shows violent intent and supports your decision to use force to defend yourself.
The production value of your videos go up every time. Compliments to the costume and makeup department!
I get the impression these don't even work as well as a cheap doorstop! A simple rubber wedge with teeth on the bottom to dig into the carpet will deform when pushed hard but likely get more stuck, not less if someone's attempting violent entry. The strap still seems like the best choice but in a pinch I think I'd definitely trust something tried and true over some gimmicky solution that's basically "what if a wedge, but instead of bracing it against the floor we braced it against a few mm of aluminum?"
I could imagine taking a coat hanger or something like a finger and pushing the door stop out from the bottom gap of a door. It might even be sticking out to the outside. Door stop is mainly for wind eh.
I've seen wedges that have a pointed screw to dig into the floor... those are gonna be tough to budge
At least now you'll have enough egg bags to cover all your eggs
dankpods reference?
Oh, my PKCELL!
Look at the stinky name right here
Really like the real-world experience with these products. Their low cost makes it easy to review.
I once got a zero-dark-thirty rude awakening at a hotel in Des Moines, IA. Turned out someone with a very similar name to mine (I presume a Jared Johnson, I've encountered a few) had also booked a room in that same hotel on the same night and the front desk thought they'd booked one person into two rooms so they "checked" my room.... after they had already disturbed me with a phone call.
Sometimes it's not even a malicious reason someone's entering. We fortunately had the flip lock on, but had a situation where the front desk checked people into the wrong room (ours) in the middle of the night and they were just trying to get into the room they were told with the room key. Not a fun thing to wake up to and management apologized profusely after and comped nights for us.
I don't travel often and travel light enough to never care to try these products but that strap looks easy to pack. I do own a giant door stop bar that wedges under the door handle from when i was renting rooms and it works very well.
These are basically so teenagers can not have mum and dad walk in on them doing shameful things.
Curious if you ever heard of a product called the swedge? It was a failed product my grandfather tried to market in the '90s. Basically a door wedge with velcro on the bottom and an alarm if a person tried to push through it. A cursory google search didn't bring anything up about it, but this video made me think of it. Definitely intersting to see an application for a product that we kind of thought was ridiculous at the time.
If you google door wedge alarm you will find thousands of cheap copies
One trick I have used when staying at a hotel/motel is to place one of the chairs against the door. It works best if the back of the chair is a little higher than the handle of the lockset. Place the back of the chair underneath the handle and jam the chair legs against the carpet.
Dev, it might sound too simple, but I've used plain old Spalding rubber balls, one or two of them on the floor behind the door stops it from opening. Yes, someone can pop them out of the way pushing them from the outside, but if they don't know it's there it works. Just a random thought, take care and relax :)
That is probably pushing upwards on the door, just so you know. It may be stressing things.
@@FusionDeveloper Yes it does, we did it as kids to keep each other out of our bedrooms. The doors go up a bit, but they won't budge more than half an inch.
I have always wondered how you have such a good complexion 👍 ..... and the toe separators means you painted your nails???😳
Thanks for putting yourself through this to give us a giggle..... and informed!
With a low resolution or a smaller screen, they look like a frog feet 😅
What i love is that basically every hotel door including the one used here has that flip down sliding bar that does the same job as a door chain (but possibly better)
You know, a device meant to be secured only from the inside to stop someone coming into an occupied room.
Are they impenetrable? No, you could probably get it undone with an under door tool, but if you're shouldering the door you won't know it's done up until you slam into it and at that point altered the occupants.
It's not perfect but it's absolutely better than these gimmicks.
Also, what of someone came up with something that fits over the knob on those door bars, or into the slot on a chain to keep a blind under/over door attack from undoing it? That seems like it would be relatively easy to make and a lot more effective
those i could actually use as a joke prop for a haunted house costume. i like telling customers "see you at home" when they walk away when im in character lol
wikifeet goin' wild rn
I love a good velcro strap and those super grip deals are the best. It's a door hardware configuration device. What's not to love?
Two words - "Emergency Exit" - it also makes it harder for emergency responders to get to you if you´re non responsive.
@@olenilsen4660 well, that is a thing not to love, but I also think that this is simply a risk acceptance issue. I choose when to use the strap and when it seems unnecessary. There are layers of self defense to be employed in a hotel setting as well and this is one option.
@@olenilsen4660a hoolagen tool solves that
You might find the Australian QickLock, its basically the same design but reduced to its simplest/cheapest. It only has one central tongue and the wedge is replaced with a steel pin.
I havent seen a hotel door with a manual deadbolt here in Australia in at least a decade. & Its all card access.
All the hotels I've stayed at in Australia & New Zealand the last few years have locks pretty much the same as the examples in this video, but they tend to be international hotel chains.
I haven't stayed in many hotels here in Europe, but I can't recall seeing manual deadbolts in the few I've been to either.
Part of me is waiting to see if this is going to spawn into a homebrew project to make a addalock-like product, lets call it the "addadeviant", for hotel room use that actually meets most of the security needs.
Maybe after testing the viewer suggestions, there can be a video of hotel room security best practice suggestions.
You are right with the thickness being the issue… for that door a bit of card wedged in to reduce the wiggle
This reminds me of when I worked at that sketchy hotel a few years ago and had to run junkies out of the stairwells. One of them tried jamming the door shut with a folding knife so they could smoke uninterrupted, but I just had to put some shoulder into it and I had a free knife for my collection, lol.
I absolutely love your channel! But some things you can’t unsee, my friend! Too funny.
CNN featured an article about a week ago about one of these praising every traveler should have one. They should be paying you to be a consultant.
the toe pillows are a nice touch :)
Thanks for this demonstration. This video will help a lot of people, cheers
You owe me a coffee, I spat it out laughing at the start of this
Back when I lived in a boarding school dorm I used to work at a pine mill making furniture as my part-time job in helping to pay my own tuition
Anyway... I lovked the door by drilling a hanger sized hole through the dead bolt and the retractable door handle button/bolt
By drilling a tiny bit through the metal I would insert a bent hanger into the hole. Regardless of who was on the other side they could not open the door handle ir boot because they didn't know what was stopping it.
Not that this can be done at hotels, there are covert ways to use similar "wedges". But pound for pound I do like the strap idea, I feel it would be more compatible with most hotels
A deer cam or nanny cam can be handy.
Not really security as it doesn’t lock anything, and if someone takes that too then your evidence is gone.
I used my deer cam for about the first week or so during a long contract job.
My set up was less than perfect.
But after observing that the staff was only interested in spending as little time in the room as possible, I quit fooling with it.
I had it placed in an obvious area, but only one employee barely gave it a glance.
There are better or more appropriate products out there, but it’s what I had in a pinch.
Great look! You pull it off
Thank you for the video, was actually considering buying one of thos Addalocks but will go with your recommendation
I hope you got the proper spa day after this video mate :) Looking glorious!
Love this format! But, what the hell - no cucumber slices?
Does anything change for these if you also use the little flip latch or do those let the door open enough to break the Addalock and friends so you just need more steps to break in? Underdoor tool to get past the keycard and deadbolt, shoulder check the addalock, and then any of the normal tricks to get past the flip latch?
Lol - if I was entering a room and saw you lounging on the bed in that get up, I'd get the fuck out of town! lol
I know that the link for this is old, so I have no idea what I entered for, but I'm brand new YAY!!! I have entered whatever giveaway you have!!! I'm so stoked to have found your channekl!! 😀
00:01 , yeah thanks deev , I now need keyboard coffee removal services , again, you twonk 😊
Love you loads , Stu from Blackpool.
Right on, thanks
I dont understand what's wrong with the deadbolt installed in every hotel?
Nice one Deev.
How about a small F-clamp on the thumb turn, its tail sticking up so it's blocked by the door handle? That would prevent the thumb turn from being turned, would it not?
omfg I saw the thumbnail and thought 'oh wow, I really hope deev has done this whole thing like that but nah, that's just photoshop' and now I'm silently laughing.
I had the bar stop someone from no knock walking in while I was dropping one off with the door open. I never trust those key cards…
Great info! Thanks!
thanks for showing these! glad I didn't spend the coin on them... what about the "doorjammer"? it has clones as well.
I wanna know how to store firearms in a hotel room. I put mine in a hard case or locked bag with Pacsafe mesh, and then use a cable lock through a hard point (usually plumbing fixture). This is fine for housekeeping but someone with nippers could get through this setup. What do you recommend? This could be a video 😁
I don't know how, but if there was something on the flat side when assembled to help support against the door frame and keep the plate from bending the wedge out of the way, it might work a bit better. Big burly guy will still be able to go through regardless, though.
I love the vibe of this video :D
Is there a device you do recommend?
When something wakes me up, I open one eye to see what it is. Then I either throw a field boot at it, or pull it into bed.
Works for me.
Request - if you put them in the prize pelican, would you please autograph them (not with any legal signature) ? Yes you have fans.
I travel a lot for work, and I’m noticing a trend towards an electronic “toggle” or “lockout” in lieu of mechanical deadbolts. The grip strap doesn’t seem like it would work in this case, any suggestions?
How do those look? Strikes me as a giant fire hazard if the deadbolt “locksout” during a fire……
That door strap you use would be useless at the Hotel I used to work at. Their dead bolts, if you can call them that, were electronically activated. The turn-knob was merely a switch and not physically connected to the deadbolt. That presented multiple problems itself...especially when the batteries would die.
What about some sort of machined aluminum or steel device that goes over the hinges? Would that work? I haven't seem anything like that, but I'm just curious....
What about a slightly beefier chain that was put around the door handle keep the plate from bending outward when pressure was applied? Still probably be able to force it open but it seems the issue is more so the plate bending and not the mechanism breaking.
Nice bro love the testing
Some things cannot be unseen 🤣
Anyone got an alternative for the strap in countries without it?
I would just note that the noise of the failure has a kind of merit to it.
1:08 Did you take her up on her offer? lol I think a product would have to be made in USA for it to even have a chance. As for the strap, and really all other devices I know, they seem good for when you are in the room (which is the most important), but there seems to be nothing for when you are out apart from maybe Sparrows Hotel Keys but you may have to answer to house keeping for using those.
Two forks like we did on our bedroom doors as teenagers would be better than that nonsense.
Thanks for the video
Weird they try to hold the door with those blocks that hang in the slot. Why not just have a nice steel bar that extends through the flat metal part on both sides? I can think of a few ways it could be attached and detached, but bracing against the door AND the frame with a chunk of metal like that aluminium one wouldn't enable it to be bypassed by bending the thin flat metal part sideways...
sounds like you should apply for a patent, then... I can´t really figure out what you´re getting at, but if you´ve got the solution, just go for it!
@@olenilsen4660 hahah, last thing I need is ANOTHER business to be starting 🤣 Nah, I hereby place that idea in the public domain - bet there's plenty of prior art anyways.
You mean the QickLock?
I lived in an apartment and it had a fire door. The deadbolt was pushed in n somehow and broke the deadbolt lock itself where turning the lock. No longer worked to set the deadbolt for securing the door. Wasn't around at the time to see how it was done but they stole lots of stuff from my Bridgeport apartment in Connecticut. Good bye stereo equipment, pillow cases, stuff from the refrigerator, and boxes I was bringing back to the apartment as I'm getting ready to move out of the state of Connecticut. Not sure how they broke the deadbolt.
Seems to me that the loose tolerances are the failure point. The loose fit allows too much movement, which makes the shoulder attack more effective. I'm curious how a tight fitting version would hold up, but that wouldn't work in general hotels either way and the griplock is a better alternative.
Patrick Star "Is mayonnaise a facemask?"
We use Wedge-It... Granted the product says it keeps doors open, but throw it behind a closed door.
assymetric support (triangel only from one side make it weak... some rod placed trough horizontaly would make much better job ;-)
I wonder if they could be made better by preventing the flex that allows that bend. If you watch closely, you can see it flexing to the right.
I'd be curious with a little modification if you could get this to fit over the deadbolt and if it would do a good job.
it might fit there, but it still likely wouldnt hold the door well at all
Curious what the website you don't like to name is?
Sounds like the rolled-up towel behind the handle to defeat the UDT is still the best security for your money 😂
I feel like a $2 door stop wedged in good and tight would be more effective.
thank you for the video
These seemed okay in pictures but the video makes the problem obvious. The wobbling that occurs when you pushed on the door. There should be some mechanism to ensure that whenever someone outside applies force to the device it will be perpendicular to it. The idea is ensure that all the forces will be directed towards attempting to compress the metal plate and the wedge. Those bits are easy to bend but trying to compress them should present a decent challenge.
My bone with these things is that they may inhibit opening the door from the inside in a panic.
Feel bad for the hotel
Happy 4th Brother Be Safe 🇬🇧
Maybe these would work better if you add a second wedge on the other side of the steel. That way you can´t simply bend the sheet metal part out of the way.
Looks like a tolerance issue. The flaps should be as high (and shape) as the tongue of the door. This design will fail as the door itself is pushed apart as soon the flap skips from the hole. Guess someone from the ux department had issues having metal claws sticking out... this few mm tolerance is very common at least in europe. And the hinge will give about 2mm more as pressed up & away.
Sometimes you can get the house keeper staff open the door for you
1:07 wish my wife had that reaction when I come barging in the room
hah
If you need privacy from the cleaner, most hotels have a tag for that.
are you ever concerned about a potential lock-IN problem? for example, you have your grip strap on the door and have a medical emergency where you cant make it to the door to remove it. what would you do?
You'll get a bill after the fire department goes through the door.
Seems like it’d be more effective if you just brought a doorstop or two and just wedged them in at the bottom, at the cost of having to pry them out each time..
How did Tarah keep the camera straight on that bed shot 😂
Looks like they need to not cheap out on the metal plate and use either spring steel or titanium. Both of which would be beyond what any cheap product will ever provide.
Seems like a doorstop is a cheaper and more effective option.
What about the Howsarlock! It’s a totally different design
Looking at their own video it looks like it suffers from the same problem.
people like you remind me that locks are just a suggestion of security, it'll delay them enough that it makes noise and lets you know they are trying to get in
After watching the LOCKPICKINGLAWYER for a few years, I'd say you are correct. Some locks seem to unlock just by being placed on the table.
Double it and give it to the next person 🤣
If they made it so that you couldn't bend that thin metal piece, you wouldn't be able to insert it in the door, but if you could then it would probably hold.
But why keep engineering a faulty product when there is a working one.
Door wedge seems like a much better option
As usual the answer was:
"It doesn't matter because you can just use velcro"
I recall that you generally travel with a weapon, so....
no need to worry about the deadbolt , under the door tool will cause the bolt to any functioning door.
Method #1 to stay safe in hotel room: carry gun
A for effort!