<p>Does anyone have any ideas for securing a door that doesn’t lock? My d is still having an issue with the old roommate entering while she is out (and the suitemate and random dudes wandering through drunk at 4 in the morning). The bathroom doors between the rooms don’t lock and the suitemate tends to leave her hall door unlocked which essentially means my d’s room is unlocked.</p>
<p>I was thinking a big old rubber doorstop might work. Any other ideas?</p>
<p>I used to have a lock for my room , since my brother was always coming in and annoying me
this isn’t the same, but it looks like it would do the job
<a href=“http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/safety.htm[/url]”>http://www.walkabouttravelgear.com/safety.htm</a></p>
<p>If the door has a normal doorknob, she can just replace it with a keyed locking doorknob for < $10. If she only cares about locking it while she’s in the room, she can get a fliplatch for a couple of dollars.</p>
<p>Thanks for the suggestions. I’m pretty sure she can’t make any alterations to the door, but several of those doodads look like they’ll work. She’s trying to be cool about this, but the girl in question has issues with boundaries. My d’s main thing is that she doesn’t like waking up to strangers wandering through her room in the middle of the night (who would?). And clearly, while she has been out, someone has been in her room messing with her things. So far no theft, but it’s kinda unnerving. With open access to the outside through the suitemates’ room, it’s hard to know without a doubt who is trespassing and therefore inappropriate to make accusations.</p>
<p>Can she try the old fashioned chair under the doorknob? Sometimes this works better with a sock on the doorknob.</p>
<p>It may not totally stop the door–but it may not be easy to move and the intruder may give up.</p>
<p>Also, has your daughter spoken to her RA about this? I remember reading the thread about her roommate and she should not be allowed into the room.
(I know, easier said than done.)</p>
<p>Can you encourage her to look for a new room? That sounds like a really annoying situation - one that could get worse.</p>
<p>I found something that is essentially ‘the door under the doorknob’…it’s a door security bar that hooks on to the knob and has bar with a rubber foot that sits on the floor…the more someone pushes on the door, the more the firmly the ‘foot’ digs into the floor. Seems perfect, but delivery is slow and the company may not get it to her before she comes home for holidays. So, I’ll probably order it after the break.</p>
<p>She really likes her dorm and all her friends…and has been through the ringer on this roommate thing. She doesn’t want to go to housing with any more issues, so she just endures.</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t understand why they made bathrooms that don’t lock. I would be terribly uncomfortable trying to take a shower when ANYone could walk through. I suppose that is to be expected in a dorm situation though…if it were common hall baths, it would be the same thing. Oh well…</p>
<p>Sidebar anecdote: Speaking of locking doors coming from the bathroom, my daughter found her self on the other end of your problem. While in the bathroom for a shower, her bedroom door slammed shut/locked behind her. She had no clothes, no phone, and most everyone in the dorm was gone for fall break! She ended up having to walk to the campus police station with just a towel wrapped around her (thankfully, a large towel!) to get her bedroom door unlocked.</p>
<p>Can she make a proposal to the school in some way to get a lock put on? If enough students wanted it…</p>
<p>But that door security bar sounds like a good idea.</p>
<p>omgosh people!!! :eek: I take it she had a hall bath? I sure hope it wasn’t cold there when this happened!</p>
<p>kwtortoise - I was thinking that same thing. But then playing devil’s advocate, especially after our roommate drama, I could envision suitemates deliberately locking each other out of the bathroom. (My kids have a ‘Hollywood’ style bath and when they were younger did that to each other all the time.) I’ll bet that is why housing opts for no locks on suite baths.</p>
<p>It’s just a little more of an adjustment living in a co-ed dorm, especially on those occasions when the person passing through the bathroom while you are standing naked behind the shower curtain is someone of the opposite sex. ldgirl still prefers the co-ed dorm, but there are definitely a few negatives in addition to all the positives.</p>
<p>Not cold, thankfully. I would’ve paid serious money to have seen it - First poking her head out of the dorm, looking both ways, and skittering to the police station. First thing she loudly proclaimed to the receptionist was, “I’m NOT crazy.” I got a pretty good mental picture of her ride back up the elevator with the cop, both staring in silence at the floor numbers, while she tried to maintain some dignity while clutching her towel around her. Wonder if there was elevator music…</p>
<p>people - that is gonna be one for the grandkids…that’s for sure! lol!</p>
<p>I’m not sure if you’re in a dorm or a suite-type apartment here, but I’d check with the landlord if they could get a new doorknob.</p>
<p>The knobs I have at my house (which are actually levers but they serve the same function) have a button that can be pressed to lock the door in place. This way there are no keys involved and nobody from the outside can enter.</p>
<p>I use these all over the house. In the bathroom, I lock it if I have company over and someone may be unaware of me in the bathroom (since I usually shut bathroom doors all the way when I have people over). I also have one on the door that leads to my garage that I lock every night (in case someone plays around with the combo pad enough to break in). I have them on all the other doors as well (except non-walk-in closets) just in case I’d want to lock myself in a room (like when I wrap Christmas presents, I lock my door so nobody comes in).</p>
<p>These things aren’t overly expensive and not too difficult to install.</p>