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Message us on WhatsAppThe cylinder will not turn, the door of the entrance hall has shut behind you or the gate of the farm has jammed with a dirt track in between. In Coín, lock emergencies are spread across narrow lanes, urbanisations and farmhouses among the orange trees. Send us a WhatsApp message with your location and our locksmiths will reply at whatever hour it is, public holidays included.
Coín stands on a hill in the Guadalhorce valley, about thirty-three kilometres from Málaga and a little over two hundred metres above sea level. Its old town keeps a medieval layout of Islamic origin, with squares such as the Alameda, the Plaza de la Villa and the Plaza de San Agustín, and with the churches of San Juan Bautista and San Andrés. Around the old town lie neighbourhoods such as San Andrés, La Fuensanta and El Ejido, and outside the urban centre come El Rodeo, Miralmonte, Miravalle Los Montecillos, Las Delicias and the rural district of Pereila, next to the river of the same name. In May the Fiesta de la Naranja is held, and the municipality is well known for its citrus fruit.
Among lanes with entrance halls and flowerpots, garden walls and farmhouses and country homes, every door is a case of its own: an entrance hall usually has an outer leaf and an inner one, a garden wall has an iron gate, and a farmhouse has several sheds each with its own lock. Checking the whole set, and not just the door that failed, is what stops you going through the same thing again.
Houses with an entrance hall close twice: the street door and the inner one. When one fails, we check both so that a single key still does the job. If the cylinder is worn out, we replace it with another that fits the same housing.
Outside the urban centre there are country houses with a large gate, walled plots and several sheds, often far from the neighbours. We change the locks on the gate, the sheds and the house, and reinforce the accesses when the home stays unoccupied for weeks.
These are residential areas set apart from the centre where, when a house changes hands or tenants, the prudent step is to renew the cylinder so that the old keys stop opening. We do it and hand over new sets.
In residential neighbourhoods such as La Fuensanta or El Ejido, the front door is used every day and, over time, the cylinder loosens and the key starts to stick. We replace it before it snaps inside one day.
In Coín we are asked to deal with entrance-hall doors that slam shut, gates of farmhouses that will not give and broken keys in urbanisations. We open all of them and, whenever possible, we do it without marking the wood or the ironwork, starting with non-destructive opening.
We replace locks and cylinders in homes in the old town, in the urbanisations and in the country houses of the municipality, with new keys and copies. We also repair gate fastenings that have lost their fit.
If it happens in Coín and cannot wait until tomorrow, message us on WhatsApp at any hour. We also reply during the August Fair and on New Year's Eve, when the streets of the old town fill with people.
Avoid forcing the lock and let the owner know. Message us with a photo of the lock and, if the owner authorises it, we open, adjust the cylinder or replace it, depending on what is failing.
Yes. We check the lock, the latch and the hinges, and adjust or replace the part that is failing. A photo of the gate on WhatsApp tells us whether a new lock is needed or just an adjustment.
That is one of the most typical emergencies in houses with an entrance hall. We try to open without damaging anything. If the lock is very worn, we take the opportunity to change the cylinder so that it does not happen again.
Yes, you can message us on WhatsApp 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and that includes fairs, Holy Week and party nights. Send us your address and our locksmiths will reply.
It is a good habit. A new cylinder is easy to fit and makes the keys of previous occupants useless. We can do it on the street door and on the patio door, and leave you with brand-new keys.
It is usually a broken or loose mechanism inside the lock, and forcing the door makes the problem worse. Message us with a photo of the front and, if you can, tell us whether the key was turning normally until today.
We also work in Monda, Guaro, Tolox, Alozaina.
