Related: 12 Things You Should Repair Instead of Replace The first step to troubleshooting a stuck zipper is to check to see how it may have gotten caught on fabric, says Amy Latta, a bestselling ...

Check for fabric caught in the closed zipper teeth ... Replacing the slider should fix the issue. Avoid forcing a stuck zipper—use lubrication or tweezers to gently free rogue fibres.

The more you try and move the slider up and down (in various states of distress), the more broken and stuck the zip can become. While you can take a dodgy zipper ... tab of fabric after the ...