Pizarra · 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 step off the Cercanías commuter train, reach your door and the key will not go in, or you have left it inside and the street is empty. In Pizarra, a small town in the Guadalhorce valley with a commuter train line to Málaga, a scene like that can happen at any moment of the day. Message us on WhatsApp with your address and our locksmiths will reply whatever the hour or the day.
Pizarra has a little over ten thousand inhabitants and lies about thirty kilometres from Málaga, with the church of San Pedro Apóstol and the palace of the Counts of Puerto Hermoso in its old town. A few kilometres away are two settlements created as colonisation villages: Zalea, built between 1965 and 1968 on land of the Count of Los Gaitanes, and Cerralba, built at the end of the sixties. The rest of the municipality is spread between the rural district of Gibralmora and neighbourhoods such as La Vega Hipólito and the Barrio Vega Santa María, among lemon, orange, olive and almond trees.
In small towns it is common to leave a spare key with a neighbour or a relative. With time, nobody remembers how many copies there are or whose hands they are in. A key you no longer control is an avoidable risk, and changing the cylinder is the simplest way to take back control of who can get into your home.
Between the church of San Pedro Apóstol and the palace of the Counts, village houses often combine a door with an iron grille. When the lock fails, we look at the grille and the frame first, because sometimes the fault lies in the fit and not in the key.
Both settlements were built more than half a century ago, and in many homes the lock is still the original. After so many years of use, cylinders work loose and keys wear down. We replace them, adjust patio doors and hand over new sets of keys.
Among irrigated and dry-farmed fields there are isolated houses with a large gate and a shed. We change the locks on every access and reinforce the most exposed ones in homes that spend many hours with nobody inside.
The municipality has feed and flour mills, textile cooperatives and metalwork workshops, as well as shops in the old town. We open blocked service doors and replace the locks of premises that have suffered an attempted break-in.
In Pizarra we are asked to open everything from the door of a village house to that of a farmhouse, taking in homes in Zalea and Cerralba and premises in the old town. If the key has snapped or has been left inside, we look for a way in with as little damage as possible, starting with non-destructive opening, and then repair whatever is needed.
We change locks and cylinders in homes, entrance halls and businesses in Pizarra for security models, with new keys and copies. It is the simplest step after losing keys or inheriting a property.
If a door jams in Pizarra, Zalea, Cerralba or in any country house, message us on WhatsApp and our locksmiths will take care of it, even on a Sunday, in the dead of night or during the week of the Real Feria fair.
Yes. Message us with the address and tell us who is at the door. We will confirm with you that the home is yours and, once that is done, we open up and check whether the lock has suffered.
Yes, especially if you were carrying them with anything that points to your address. We open the door if needed, change the cylinder and give you new keys, so that the lost ones stop opening it.
If the key goes in with difficulty or the door closes loosely, it is a good idea. Our locksmiths check the condition of the cylinder and the door leaf and tell you whether an adjustment is enough or whether replacing it is better.
Yes. We check the locks of industrial units, service doors and shutters of premises, and repair them or swap them for sturdier ones. A photo of the fastening on WhatsApp is enough for us to get started.
Yes. We check the entrance hall fastening, the cylinder and the opening mechanism, and repair or replace them. If several neighbours are involved, it helps if one of you messages us and tells us how many keys are needed.
Not always. Often the door leaf has gone out of square or the hinges have given way, and then the lock is working under strain. We check hinges, frame and bolt, and fix whatever is needed, whether the lock or the adjustment.
