Cártama · 24 hours, every day
Locked out of your home?
Emergency locksmith at any hour. Tell us on WhatsApp what has happened and we will reply straight away.
Message us on WhatsAppYou get home at night, the key spins without catching or has been left inside, and the door will not give. In Cártama, a municipality spread across several settlements about seventeen kilometres from Málaga, that scene can happen in a street of the old town, next to the station or on a track in the valley. Message us on WhatsApp with your location and our locksmiths will reply at any hour, in the early hours and on public holidays too.
Cártama is not a single village but a sum of settlements, each with its own character. Cártama Pueblo is the old town, in the shadow of the ruins of the Moorish castle and the chapel of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. Estación de Cártama grew up around the railway station, opened in 1865, and today, together with the old town, it is one of the two main settlements. In the middle of the Guadalhorce valley lies El Sexmo, and scattered across the municipality are Doña Ana, the Sierra de Gibralgalia, Loma de Cuenca, Nueva Aljaima and Las Tres Leguas. Between them stretch the citrus groves that make the municipality famous.
So many settlements mean the address needs fine-tuning. The street name is not always enough when several areas have similar names, so tell us which settlement you are in and add a simple landmark: a junction, a warehouse, a bus stop or the best-known orange grove in the area. With that detail our locksmiths locate the door and know whether it is an entrance hall, a house with a plot or a shop unit.
The streets that climb towards the castle hold the oldest homes in the municipality, with doors from another era and locks that have seen many years of use. When the mechanism does not respond, we take it apart to see whether it can be repaired and, if not, we replace it with another that is compatible with the door.
It is a densely populated settlement, with families in which several people come and go with their own set. When a key is lost or is held by someone who no longer lives in the house, the sensible thing is to replace the cylinder. We change it and hand over new keys to each member of the household.
In the smaller settlements and in the houses scattered among the crops, the main door sits alongside large gates, fences and sheds. We change the locks on every access point and adjust the ironwork of gates that have lost their alignment over the years.
Cártama has construction firms, a large meat company and neighbourhood shops, all with metal shutters and service doors. We open blocked entrances, replace the locks of business premises and reinforce the fastenings of storerooms when a break-in or a change of owner makes it necessary.
If you are locked out in Cártama, from a flat in Estación de Cártama to a house with a plot in Doña Ana or a shop in the old town, we open the door with the technique that harms it least. The same applies if the key snaps or the bolt does not respond. We always try non-destructive opening first.
We replace locks and cylinders in homes and businesses in Cártama with security models, with new keys and copies for everyone who needs them. It is a sensible step after losing a set of keys or when a tenant changes.
If the door will not open in Cártama Pueblo, Estación de Cártama, El Sexmo or any other settlement in the municipality, message us on WhatsApp at any time: our chat is open at night and on public holidays too.
Yes, the whole municipality is within our coverage. In the small settlements it helps to give a visible landmark, because some streets are tracks that maps do not show well.
Yes. We check the shutter lock, the cylinder and the guides, and replace whatever is damaged. If you send us a photo on WhatsApp, we can see the model beforehand.
The safest thing is to change the cylinder as soon as you can. We open the door if needed, fit a new cylinder and hand you keys that differ from the old ones, so that the old copies stop working.
Yes, you can message us on WhatsApp 24 hours a day, including the early hours. Send us your address and, if you can, a photo of the door, and our locksmiths will reply.
Better not. With tweezers or needles the broken piece is usually pushed further in and the mechanism is spoilt. Message us with a photo and we will extract the fragment, and if the cylinder is damaged, we will replace it.
We open the door using the least invasive method available, after confirming with you that the property is yours. Afterwards we replace the cylinder so that any keys still out there stop working, and you keep a complete set.
