Guides for Locks and Doors in Alicante
What to do, written for this city: its old quarter, its seafront flats, its fiesta week, its holiday lets and its communal doors. When you need someone to come out, each guide points to the right service.
- Lockouts
Locked out in Santa Cruz
The lanes under the castle are stairways and no car reaches the door. How to make a lockout in the old quarter quick to solve.
4 min read - Locks and doors
Sea air and stiff locks
Why keys start to catch in flats near the Postiguet, Albufereta and San Juan, what actually helps, and when the cylinder is finished.
5 min read - Security
Hogueras week, door locked
From 20 to 24 June the city is out until the small hours. How to leave your flat properly locked and keep a lockout small.
4 min read - Owners and hosts
Back after months away
A lock checklist for owners returning to a second home in Playa de San Juan, and what to sort out before you leave again.
5 min read - Owners and hosts
Key handover for holiday lets
Key boxes that jam, codes that never arrive, street doors guests cannot open. Setting up check-in so one failure does not become a night on the landing.
6 min read - Security
After a burglary, in order
Touch nothing, call the police, file the denuncia, secure the door, call the insurer. What each step involves in Alicante, and why the order matters.
5 min read - Locks and doors
The building's street door is broken
Who decides and who pays when the communal door of an Alicante block fails, and what a resident can do tonight while the community sorts it out.
5 min read - Locks and doors
Terrace door won't lock
Worn rollers, a keeper out of line, grit in the track or a tired latch. How to tell which it is on your Alicante terrace door, and what you can fix yourself.
5 min read - Locks and doors
Spanish lock words, explained
Bombín, cerradura, puerta blindada, antibumping, escudo, resbalón. The vocabulary you meet on quotes, packaging and community notices in Alicante.
6 min read