I can't open my front door

[LizFlowers]

My front door is stuck, I think the rain has made the wood swell. What can I do to get it open? Please! I want to do all I can before calling on someone. It does budge and I feel sure a good hard shove from outside would push it open - but I cannot go outside.

When I finally do get it open I'll organise a new door but for now........

Do you have a back door? Go out and round to shove it from the outside?

Blow dry it with a hairdryer ( if you are inside ) I do this and it works ( wooden door swells in certain wet weather /wind combinations.)

I know that sounds dead obvious but if you only have one door I'd be a bit worried about not being able to get out of it.
If that's the case, can you ring a neighbour to come and push it for you? Anyone dead close that it wouldn't be a problem for.

Can you get your hand through the letterbox to the outside so you can get a really good grip on the door and yoink as hard as you can?

Yes, any fan or halogen heater or hairdryer. (Anything that produces heat that you can direct at the door).

Once you’ve got it open, plane the door down slightly.

Can you climb out of a window to get to it?

@Plonque

Do you have a back door? Go out and round to shove it from the outside?

There's not enough room between my house and the next door for me to get around; believe me I wish there was!

Go out the back and knock on neighbours door and ask if they can give your door a shove or if you can go through their house and do it yourself.

I am considering that if all else fails. Also calling on neighbour but really don't want to if I can avoid it.

Thanks for the hairdryer suggestions, I will try that. I also have a fan heater which I could put on something at the right height to blow on the bit that is sticking.

The situation reminds me of Reeves and Mortimer - 'Trapped in my flat', if anyone remembers that. It's a minute into the video. I'm trying to be lighthearted about this, if I wasn't, I'd scream.

You don't need a new door! It will go back down after a few dry days. Ours didn't open for a week due to relentless rain bit was fine once it stopped.

Thank you somuddled. I'm never going to be in this position - ever again! It is just too ridiculous for words.

If you do have a stuck front door, try not to have a stuck front door.

All my doors, internal and external have swelled in the last few months. Drives me crazy.

@LizFlowers

Thank you somuddled. I'm never going to be in this position - ever again! It is just too ridiculous for words.

Are you out?!

Er...no, I am indoors.

Anyway - I just got the door open! I did use a hairdryer on it earlier, at the edge next to frame where it was sticking, don't know how much that helped. I thought that I would have to 'phone neighbour tomorrow. However I decided I'd have one more try and it opened. Whoohoo, I am free at last.

I am so relieved. Thank you all for your support.