Mobile locksmith · English and Spanish
Locksmith in El Campello, from Muchavista beach to the Carritxal
Front doors, terrace sliders, the gate of the residencial, a car with the keys on the seat. One phone number covers the whole town, the villages in the hills behind it, and the hours when everything else is shut.
Open 24 hours · 7 days
- Price agreed before any work starts
- English or Spanish, on the phone and at the door
- 22 years at the trade
The work
What people ring about, from the beach to the hills
Each line leads to its own page, with the methods, the questions people ask and what the job involves. If yours is not on the list, ring anyway and describe what the lock is doing.
- Emergency locksmith day or night Keys left inside, a key snapped in the cylinder, a lock that stopped turning on the way out: ring at any hour and someone answers.
- Door opening flats, bungalows, villas Front doors opened through the lock itself: latch slipping, picking, or bypass, with the drill kept for the rare door that leaves no other way in.
- Lock change & repair booked ahead New euro cylinders, snap-resistant and anti-bump upgrades, tired multipoint gearboxes: planned work on a day that suits you.
- Sliding & PVC doors terraces and balconies Terrace sliders whose hook no longer catches, PVC doors that have dropped, handles seized by salt: the doors that face the sea.
- Car lockout door opening only Keys locked inside the car by the beach, at the port or in a garage: the door is opened, and that is the whole job.
- Holiday lets owners and managers Cylinders swapped when a guest leaves with the keys, key boxes that stick, a guest locked out at midnight: one number for whoever runs the let.
- Communal doors & gates residenciales and blocks Portal doors, pool gates, pedestrian doors into the garage and master-keyed systems, for presidents and administradores of residential communities.
- Shops & businesses shops, bars, offices Shutter padlocks, glass shopfront doors, back doors and offices, with the work fitted around the hours you trade.
- After a burglary make safe, then upgrade A forced door made to lock again on the first visit, and a stronger cylinder, guard plate or armoured lock once the police report is filed.
- Safes homes, lets, businesses Safes that refuse a code, run out of battery or came with a house and no instructions, and new safes anchored where they cannot be carried off.
The patch
Twenty-three kilometres of coast, read south to north
El Campello is long and narrow. It starts where Muchavista beach runs into Sant Joan, passes the old fishermen’s quarter of Carrer la Mar and the port, and ends in the coves of the Carritxal, on the boundary with La Vila Joiosa. Behind it, the town centre and the partidas climb towards Busot and Aigües.
The town hall splits it into six districts, and that is how the list here is laid out. The tram line follows the coast all the way, so a stop name is often the quickest way to tell us where you are.
Every district, urbanisation and village we cover, with what to say on the phone from each.
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Mutxavista
Muchavista beach · Fabraquer · La Cenia · Benimagrell · Villa Marco · Salesians
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Carrer la Mar and the port
Carrer la Mar · Clot de l’Illot · the port · La Illeta
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Pueblo
the town centre · Plaça de la Constitució · around the church and the town hall
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Centro
La Creu · El Vincle · Colonia Trinidad · San Ramón
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Norte
Pueblo Español · L’Almadrava · Els Banyets · Alkabir · L’Amerador · Coveta Fumà · Cala d’Or · La Merced · Pueblo Acantilado · Venta Lanuza · El Carritxal
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Inland partidas
Bonny · Bonanza · the Aigües road (CV-775) · the Busot road (CV-777)
One call
How a call goes, start to finish
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You describe the door
Where you are, which lock it is and what it is doing. A photo on WhatsApp often says more than a minute of explaining.
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You hear when we can be there
An honest estimate for your street at that moment, worked out on the call. No number printed on a website could be right for everyone.
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The price is agreed at the door
Once the lock has been seen, and before any tool touches it. If you would rather not go ahead, you say so then.
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You are left with a door that locks
Opened, repaired or fitted with a new cylinder, and tested with you before anyone leaves.
Before you ring
Three promises you can check at the door
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Proof before anything is opened
A door, a car or a safe is opened only for someone who can show it is theirs, or who has the owner’s permission. It protects you as much as anyone.
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The lock comes first, the drill last
Most doors open through the cylinder with nothing broken. When one cannot, you are told why and asked before anything is destroyed.
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No invented reviews
You will not find testimonials on this website. Why, and where to read real ones.
More about who answers the phone and how the work is done is on the about page, and every way of reaching us is on the contact page.
Asked first
Five questions that come up before people book
Can you cut me a copy of my key while you are here?
No. This business opens doors, cars and safes, and fits and repairs locks. None of the following is offered: car keys: cutting, supplying, replacing or programming them; transponder keys and remote controls for vehicles; cutting, copying or duplicating keys of any kind; spare keys for homes, gates, padlocks or letterboxes; repairs to ignition barrels or ignition switches; keys for motorbikes, scooters or vans. A new cylinder comes with its own set of keys, and that is the only time keys change hands.
Will the person who answers speak English?
Yes. Calls, WhatsApp messages and emails are answered in English or Spanish, and the work at the door is explained in whichever of the two you prefer.
How is the price settled?
On the phone you get an honest idea of when someone can be with you. The price itself is agreed at the door, once the lock has been seen and before any work starts. Payment by cash, card or Bizum.
I live in Busot or Aigües, up in the hills. Is that too far?
No. Both villages are covered, along with Mutxamel and Sant Joan d’Alacant. Up the CV-777 or the CV-775, a pin on WhatsApp saves a lot of searching between the bends.
Does a front door that is only pulled shut always open without damage?
Usually, yes: a latch with no key turned is the easiest door there is. A door locked with the key, an armoured door or a cylinder with anti-pick protection takes longer, and in a few cases the cylinder has to be sacrificed. You are asked before that happens.
Guides
Written for this town
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Front line and weather
After a Levante storm: sand and salt in front-line locks
A night of easterly wind leaves spray, sand and sometimes seawater in the locks of the first line of homes. What to check the morning after, what to clean yourself and what to leave alone.
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Communities, tenants and lets
Check-in notes for guests arriving by tram
Most guest lockouts start with instructions written for someone who already knows the building. How to write check-in notes that take a guest from the tram stop to the right gate, the right door and the right key.
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Getting home
Keys locked in the car behind Muchavista beach
A day on the beach, a car door shut a moment too soon, and the keys on the seat. What to check, what not to try, and what to have ready while you wait for the door to be opened.
A lock that will not do what it should?
Ring, or send a photo and your street on WhatsApp. Someone answers at any hour, in English or Spanish.
Open 24 hours · 7 days