Guides
Notes from the doors of Ibi
What to do with the doors and locks of this town: after the flour battle of 28 December, before the Three Kings arrive, on the first day in a resale flat or a new unit, and when the car is locked at Sant Pasqual. Each guide ends with who to call.
The town’s calendar
- Until the morning of the sixth: a lock for the present cupboard
In the town with a monument to the Three Kings, presents arrive on the morning of 6 January and have to stay hidden until then. Which locks on an inside door work, and which are a bad idea.
4 min read
- Flour and egg in the keyhole after Els Enfarinats
On 28 December the town is pelted with flour, eggs and firecrackers. When some of it ends up inside a cylinder, the wrong fix turns it into paste. What to do instead.
4 min read
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.
4 min read
- Moving into an Ibi flat that has had other owners
73 of the 74 homes sold in Ibi in the third quarter of 2024 were second-hand, and much of the town was built in the 1960s and 70s. Who may still hold a key, what to look at, and what to change first.
5 min read
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.
5 min read
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.
4 min read
- The car is locked at Sant Pasqual, with the keys inside
A day out at the Sant Pasqual recreation area, the boot shut on the keys or the doors locked with them on the seat. What to check first, what not to try, and how to say where you are.
4 min read
- Shut out of the rented flat, with a meeting at eight
You are in Ibi for a project at a supplier on the estates or at AIJU, renting a flat for a few weeks, and the door has shut with the keys inside. Who to ring first, what to have ready and what to tell the landlord.
5 min read
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