Locksmith in Alcoy: period doors opened without damage and lock changes booked at your convenience

What we do in Alcoy

• Opening slammed doors without damage
• Entry with lost or stolen keys
• Cylinder and security escutcheon replacement
• Full lock replacement (mortice and rim)
• Broken key extraction
• Jammed locks and cylinders that will not turn
• Anti-bump and high-security cylinders
• Mailbox, storage room and garage locks
• Key copies and basic master keying
• Smart lock installation (Nuki, Yale, Tedee)

Locks in the old buildings of Alcoy

The Centro and the Eixample of Alcoy are full of restored modernist and industrial buildings, with wooden front doors from the early twentieth century and old mortice locks, some of them lever locks with big keys, which nobody has changed because they still work. Until one day they do not: the bolt stays in, the key turns without catching, or the wood has swollen so much with the winter damp that the door no longer closes. We open those doors with skeleton keys and picks, no holes, and the lock is repaired or replaced with a modern rim lock, keeping the timber.

In Zona Norte, Santa Rosa, Zona Alta and Batoy the housing dates from the 1960s and 70s: wooden doors with a mortice lock and a spring latch that slams shut, and old cylinders with worn serrated keys. In El Camí and the Viaducto, newer developments with reinforced doors and euro-profile cylinders that stand proud of the escutcheon.

And everywhere, the Alcoy winter: cold, damp and timber on the move. Between November and March half our calls are latches that will not meet the strike plate and keys forced until they snap.

• Jammed lever lock in a modernist building in the Centro: opened with a skeleton key, no drilling
• Door slammed shut in a block in Santa Rosa: opened via the latch, 60-90 € by day
• Key snapped forcing a swollen door in Zona Alta: extraction, 40-70 €
• Cylinder standing proud on a reinforced door in El Camí: replaced with a flush anti-bump cylinder and security escutcheon

Locksmith prices in Alcoy

In Alcoy we charge the same prices as on the coast, with the call-out included if you accept the quote. If you decide not to go ahead once we are there, we charge 35 € for the trip.

• Payment when the job is done: cash, card, Bizum or bank transfer, with an invoice including IVA (VAT).
• Full ranges and examples on locksmith prices.

40-70 minutes: when to call now and when to book

We have no base in Alcoy, and we would rather say so than promise twenty minutes. If you are locked out with the keys inside, call us anyway: we give you the real arrival time and the price by WhatsApp, and we are there in 40-70 minutes. Meanwhile, if you can ask someone for a spare or a neighbour has a key, so much the better.

If it is not urgent, booking pays off. A cylinder change, a new rim lock or a check on the door of an old building can be grouped with other jobs in Alcoy, Cocentaina or Ibi on the same day, and you choose the slot. For those booked jobs it helps if you send photos of the lock inside and out, and of the whole door, so we bring the right part and finish in a single visit. If it is a mortice lock and you want to know which measurements to take, we explain in the guide on how to change a door lock.

The 29 € locksmith who also drives up to Alcoy

The call centres advertising locksmiths in Alcoy from 29 € are not in Alcoy either. They send whoever is free in Alicante, who takes as long as we do and, on arrival, charges the drive as a call-out, the hour as an emergency, and the drilled cylinder as a new part. On a wooden door in a modernist building, the drill leaves damage your comunidad de vecinos (residents' association) will not thank you for.

We give you the full price before leaving, trip included, and if the lock is a period one we can tell from the photo and come up with the right skeleton keys. We open without breaking whenever possible, and if it is not possible we explain before touching the door.

Damp, timber and locks: winter in Alcoy

A good share of the locks we open in Alcoy in winter were not broken: the door had swollen and the owner forced the key until it snapped. If the latch will not meet the strike plate when it rains, the problem is the door, not the lock. Our carpenter sorts it by planing the door or moving the strike plate, and it costs less than an opening every January.

The same houses have Majorcan and timber shutters with rusted fittings, which our roller shutter repair team handles, and walls stained by winter damp that our painters touch up. We organise it as one booked visit so you are not paying three trips.

Areas of Alcoy and towns in the district

We reach the Centro, Zona Norte, Santa Rosa, Zona Alta, Batoy, El Camí, Viaducto and Eixample. From Alcoy we also cover Cocentaina, Ibi, Muro de Alcoy and Banyeres, at the same price and with a little more time depending on the town.

Everything we do in the city, from locks to carpentry and painting, is on handyman in Alcoy. The full description of the locksmith service, with the types of lock and the brands we fit, is on locksmith.

Guide prices in Alcoy

More services in Alcoy

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Guides and tips

• How to remove a broken key from a lock without damaging the cylinder
• Jammed lock: the cylinder will not turn or the key will not go in
• How to change a door lock (mortice and rim)
• How to change a lock cylinder in 10 minutes (reinforced doors too)
• How to measure a lock cylinder to buy the right replacement
• Locked out after the door slammed: what to do (and what not to)

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