Ibi · Foia de Castalla · Alicante
Locksmith Ibi: from the Casco Antiguo to the Alfaç estates
Doors opened, cylinders changed, units on the estates, cars and safes. In the barrios round the old town, out in the partides and across the Foia to Castalla, Onil and Tibi. Ring, or send a photo of the lock.
Open 24 hours · 7 days
- English and Spanish
- Price agreed before work starts
- Latch and cylinder before the drill
Where you are
Four kinds of address, four kinds of door
Ibi sits around 800 metres up, on the slope below the Teixereta, between the Santa Lucía and San Miguel hills. The town, the countryside and the estates each bring a different door to the call, and it helps to say which one you are at.
The Casco Antiguo
The oldest streets, round the Church of the Transfiguration, the 17th-century Llotja and the Casa Gran: family houses on the slope of the hill, with older doors and older locks.
The boom-year barrios
The town more than tripled between 1960 and 1981. Blocks of flats with a street door, a staircase and a flat door on each landing. Changing a cylinder in a flat.
The partides
Farmhouses and chalets out in Biscoi, els Plans, la Devesa and the rest: gates, sheds and front doors a long way from a street name. How those doors are opened.
The estates
Alfaç I to III, Casa Pau, Derramador and Retiro-Casanova. Staff doors, offices and stores that have to open for the morning shift. Work on units and shops.
Parts list
Find the part that matches your door
Each part leads to a page about that job alone: how it is done in Ibi, what you can do while you wait and what to say on the phone. The phone is answered 24 hours a day; planned work is booked in working hours.
- A1 The door has shut and I am on the wrong side Emergency locksmith The latch caught behind you, the keys went missing on the way home, half a key is still in the cylinder. A person answers at any hour and tells you honestly how long the drive will be.
- A2 This door needs opening without wrecking it Door opening Flat doors in the blocks of the boom years, armoured doors, garden gates and the heavy doors of a mas in the partides. The latch and the cylinder are tried first; drilling waits for your say-so.
- A3 The lock is worn, or other people have keys to it Lock change & repair A cylinder that sticks, a multipoint lock that has to be lifted to turn, or a resale flat where nobody knows who kept a key. Booked for a day that suits you.
- A4 It is the unit, the shop or the office Units, shops & offices The staff door of a unit on Alfaç, the office inside it, a shop on the main street, a padlocked store. Opened, or its locks changed, around your working hours. No welding, no metalwork.
- A5 Somebody has forced the door, or tried to After a break-in The door made to shut and lock on the first visit. Then, when you are ready, a high-security cylinder, a guard plate or a stronger lock.
- A6 The car is locked with the keys inside Locked car Keys on the seat, in the boot or still in the ignition. The door is opened without damage, and opening it is the whole job.
- A7 The safe will not open, or I want one fitted Safes A keypad that has gone dark, a code nobody wrote down, a safe inherited with the flat. Opened with as little damage as possible; new safes anchored where they cannot be carried off.
The town in figures
A town that made toys, then flats, then everything in plastic
- 24,500people on the register in 2025, the most ever (INE)
- ×3growth from 6,129 people in 1960 to 19,846 in 1981
- 550+companies on six industrial estates
Payá Hermanos opened in Ibi in 1905 and is counted as Spain’s first toy maker. The factories that followed drew newcomers by the thousand, and the town grew round them: about a third of the floor area built in Ibi dates from the 1960s and 1970s. Today the same estates make moulds, plastic parts and metal work.
That history is why the calls look the way they do. Flats that have passed through several owners, where nobody knows who kept a key. Units that change tenant. And people who come for work, from other towns and other countries, renting a flat for a few weeks. They are served in English as easily as in Spanish. Who answers the phone.
Terms
What you can hold us to on every job
| Before setting off | How long the drive to your street, partida or estate is likely to take at that hour. An estimate, said as one. |
|---|---|
| Before any work | The price, agreed with you at the door once the lock has been looked at. Until you accept it, nothing is touched. |
| At the lock | The gentlest way in comes first. A drill is used only when you have agreed to it. |
| Before it opens | Whoever rings has to be entitled to open the home, the unit, the car or the safe. Papers left inside are checked afterwards. |
| Behind it | 22 years working as a locksmith. |
Customer reviews will be linked from the reviews page once there is a public business profile to hold them; none are published here. If a door has shut behind you right now, this is how a call-out goes, and every channel is on the contact page.
Questions
What people in Ibi ask before ringing
Do you come out to a mas in the partides, or only into town?
Out to all of them: every one of the 23 partides, from Biscoi and els Plans to la Devesa and Sant Pasqual, as well as the town, the six industrial estates, and Castalla, Onil and Tibi.
While you are here, can you make me a spare key?
No. This business does not cut, copy or supply keys of any kind, and does nothing with car keys, remotes or ignitions. With a car, the job is opening a locked door and nothing more.
Is the price settled before you start?
Yes. Once the lock has been seen, the price is agreed with you before any work begins, and nothing is touched until you say yes. Payment by cash, card or Bizum.
I am in Ibi for work and do not speak Spanish. Will that be a problem?
No. The call, the WhatsApp messages, the options, the price and the invoice can all be in English, or in Spanish if you prefer.
Do you work on the industrial estates as well as in homes?
Yes, on all six: Alfaç, Alfaç II, Alfaç III, Casa Pau, Derramador, Retiro-Casanova. Staff doors, offices and padlocked stores are opened and their locks changed. Gates, grilles and shutters that need welding are a metalworker’s job, not ours.
Guides
Written for Ibi’s calendar, flats and estates
- When it cannot wait A small child on the other side of the door
A toddler has turned the key or the thumb-turn, or the door has swung shut with a baby in the cot. When to ring 112, when to ring a locksmith, and how to keep a child calm through a closed door.
- Work and the estates The first morning in a new unit: a round of every lock
Taking over a unit on Alfaç III, Casa Pau or Derramador? Keys rarely all come back from the last tenant. A door-by-door round for day one, and what a locksmith can and cannot do about each.
- Moving in Where a safe can be anchored in a flat from the boom years
About a third of Ibi’s built floor area dates from the 1960s and 70s. In flats of that age, inside walls are often thin brick partitions, and a safe bolted to one is not much safer than a safe standing loose.
All the guides · Castalla, Onil, Tibi and the rest of the area
Say the barrio, the partida or the estate
Then what the door is doing. A photo of the lock on WhatsApp saves half the questions.
Open 24 hours · 7 days