Lock cylinder replacement in Guardamar del Segura

In Guardamar del Segura there are holiday flats, village houses in the old part of town and urbanisations of bungalows and villas such as El Raso. Each one calls for a different cylinder, but they all share two enemies: the sand that blows in from the beach and the dunes of the pine wood, and the sea air. We are locksmiths from Torrevieja, about fifteen kilometres away, and we change lock cylinders throughout the municipality.

The best time: before or after the summer

Many homes in Guardamar are opened up in July and shut in September. If you noticed when locking up that the key was stiff, that is the warning. Changing the cylinder in spring, or just as you leave, is far more relaxed than doing it in the middle of August with the family waiting in the street. And if the key has already snapped, it has to be removed first and then we can judge whether the cylinder will hold up.

One house, lots of keys

In holiday homes passed down from parents to children it is normal for keys to be held by brothers, sisters, cousins, nephews, nieces and the neighbour who keeps an eye on the house in winter. If nobody in your family knows any more how many there are, changing the cylinder and giving the new ones only to those who need them puts things in order once and for all.

If grandparents and children share the house in summer, think about a double clutch cylinder: it lets you open from outside even if someone has left the key in on the inside. We explain the options in security cylinders.

Old town houses without a cylinder

In the old part of Guardamar there are still doors with a lever lock, the one with a long key. Those locks have no cylinder to change. If you want to be able to change keys easily in future, the answer is to convert the lock to a euro cylinder. We cover this in converting a lever lock to a cylinder.

Beach flats and bungalows

• In a flat with a communal entrance, we change the cylinder on your home. The street door one is a matter for the community of owners.
• In a ground floor bungalow that is shut all winter, the front door deserves a security cylinder that does not stick out of the door.
• On the terrace door, in aluminium or PVC, the cylinder is usually a different size. We can identify it from a photo.

The size, measured on your door

With a photo of the cylinder from outside and another of the edge of the door we give you a fixed quote, with the cylinder included. When we arrive we check the exact size before fitting the new one, so it is neither recessed nor protruding. If the size or the job changes, we tell you before carrying on. If you have bought the house and the previous tenant is still living there, the change waits: it is done once the property has been handed back to you.

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