Locksmith near Alcoi: seven barris, six settlements and 31 towns

Inside the town

• Centre

  Including the Barri de la Sang, the old town

  The oldest houses and blocks, on streets laid out long before cars, with modernista façades among them. The town hall gives grants to restore façades and party walls here.

  On the phone: The van rarely reaches the door. Tell us the nearest square or church and how many steps or how steep the street is from there.

• El Viaducte

  The neighbourhood that takes its name from the Canalejas viaduct of 1907.

  On the phone: Say which end of the viaduct you are nearer to.

• L’Eixample

  Including l’Albereda, the Cases Roges, Sant Roc and Sant Jordi estates

  The town that grew after the Pont de Sant Jordi opened in 1931: industrialists’ villas, the 1929–31 worker houses known as the Cases Roges, post-war estates and blocks from the late 1960s on.

  On the phone: A grid on a slope. The street and the nearest cross street are enough.

• Santa Rosa

  Including carrer Santa Rosa, carrer Oliver

  Grown along the old roads to Xàtiva and Banyeres from 1878, with most flats built in the 1960s and 70s. About a quarter of the town lives here.

  On the phone: Between the Sant Roc and Maria Cristina bridges, with the Fernando Reig bridge above. Say which bridge you are nearest.

• Zona Nord

  Including Caramanxel, Joan XXIII, Sant Maure, Font Dolça

  The most populated barri: apartment estates built between 1957 and 1976, from 300 to 672 homes each, around the station, the bus terminal and the hospital.

  On the phone: Name the estate as well as the street, and whether you are off carrer Juan Gil-Albert or the Avinguda de l’Hispanitat.

• Zona Alta

  Including El Partidor, Cantagallet

  The highest barri, in the south, where the A-7 and the N-340 come in: sloping streets, the university buildings, and El Partidor beside the Molinar ravine, where the population is getting older.

  On the phone: The streets climb. Say whether the van can stop outside or has to wait at the top or the bottom.

• Batoi

  Including the start of the Vía Verde

  Once a small village beside the road to Banyeres de Mariola, it grew quickly from 1957.

  On the phone: Off the CV-794. If you are near the Vía Verde, say which access you used.

Every service, every town

• any hour

  An emergency locksmith

  Shut out with the keys indoors, a key broken off in the cylinder, a lock that jammed as you left. The phone is answered at night and at weekends, and you are told honestly how long the journey will take.

• flats and houses

  Getting a door open without damage

  Most front doors are opened through the lock or the latch, with nothing broken. The drill is the last resort, used only when you agree to it.

• planned, booked ahead

  A new cylinder

  New euro cylinders, anti-snap and anti-bump upgrades, worn multipoint locks on modern doors, and PVC or aluminium doors that no longer lock. Booked for a day and time that suit you.

• old town and village houses

  Old door locks

  Street doors in the old town, in l’Eixample villas and in the villages of El Comtat, with mortice or box locks that are older than anyone in the house. Repaired and made secure, so the door can stay.

• opening only

  A locked car opened

  Keys locked inside the car, or a car door that will not open. The car is opened without damage, and that is the whole job.

• in town and village centres

  Locks for a shop or office

  Shutter locks, glass shop doors, back doors and office locks for shops, bars and offices, with the work fitted around opening hours.

• secure first, then upgrade

  Repairs after a break-in

  A forced door made to close and lock on the first visit. Then, when you are ready, a stronger cylinder, a guard plate or a high-security lock.

• homes and businesses

  A safe opened

  Safes that refuse the code, have a flat battery or came with a house and no instructions. New safes bolted down where they cannot be carried off.