--- title: "Door Opening Crevillente | Street Doors, Armoured and Gates" description: "How street doors, armoured doors and gates in Crevillente are opened: through the lock first, drilling only when nothing else works and you agree." url: "https://locksmithcrevillente.es/door-opening-crevillente/" business: "Locksmith Crevillente" --- # Door opening in Crevillente, through the lock before anything else Most doors that have only been pulled shut open through the latch or the cylinder, and come out of it looking exactly as before. Which method fits depends on the door, so here they are, door by door. Open 24 hours · 7 days [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [Send a photo on WhatsApp](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Crevillente.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%2C%20or%20the%20settlement%3A%20El%20Realengo%2C%20San%20Felipe%20Neri%2C%20Las%20Casicas%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A) - Latch and cylinder methods first - Drilling only with your yes - Price agreed before work starts ![A man in a rust polo turns a red-handled screwdriver at the cylinder of a dark grey door with a steel bar handle, looking over his shoulder](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/images/photos/screwdriver-at-the-cylinder-of-a-dark-door.a5f33c13.600.jpg) **In short:** a door that was pulled shut is usually opened through its latch; a door locked with the key, through its cylinder. Only when neither works, and you agree, is the cylinder drilled and replaced on the spot. ## The doors of Crevillente, and how each one gives ### Flat doors in the Eixample and the Parquet In the 20th-century blocks west and south of the centre, a flat door is reached through a street door and a stair. Pulled-shut flat doors are usually opened through the latch. Armoured doors with a security cylinder take longer, because the cylinder is built to resist exactly this, but the aim is still to open without harming the door leaf. ### Street doors of blocks The shared door at street level is opened only with the agreement of a resident or the community’s administrator, and is left exactly as it was. If its lock is failing for everyone, that is a repair for the community to book. ### Cave house fronts and old houses A cave house in the Coves has one built front wall, with the door set in it, and the rooms dug into the slope behind. The door itself is opened like any other; what differs is the lock, often an old mortice lock, and how the house is reached. Those doors have [a page of their own](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/cave-house-locksmith-crevillente/), and [a guide to what sits behind the front door](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/blog/behind-the-front-door-of-a-cave-house/). ### Gates and doors of country houses Villas on large plots up the sierra and round Campillo usually have a gate before the house door. Say which one is shut: a pedestrian gate lock is a different job from a house door. ### Units and premises Side doors, roller shutters and padlocks on I-Faima, Cachapets and the other estates are opened for whoever is responsible for the unit. More on [locks for shops, offices and units](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/commercial-locksmith-crevillente/). ## Why some doors cannot be opened without a new cylinder Good security cylinders exist precisely so that nobody can open them quietly from outside. If your door has one and it is locked with the key, the honest answer may be that the cylinder has to be drilled. You are told so before anything happens, the price is agreed, and a new cylinder goes in before we leave. If it is time to choose a better one anyway, [the lock change page](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/lock-change-crevillente/) explains the options. Not sure which cylinder you have? Send a photo of it by any of the routes on [the contact page](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/contact/). ## How an opening goes, start to finish 1. **Look at the door** Pulled shut or locked with the key, which cylinder, which leaf. 2. **Say the method and the price** You hear how it will be opened and what it costs, and decide. 3. **Open it** Through the latch or the cylinder; drilling only if you have agreed. 4. **Check it locks** Before we leave, you lock and unlock it yourself with your own key. Came home by train and the keys are still at work in another town? Read [whether to go back for them or call](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/blog/keys-left-at-work-and-the-train-home/). Shut out right now, at any hour? That is [the emergency call-out](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/emergency-locksmith-crevillente/). ## About opening a particular door ### Will the door look any different once it has been opened? Not when it is opened through the latch or the cylinder, which is how most doors that were only pulled shut are done. If a cylinder has to be sacrificed, a new one goes in and the door looks as it did. ### The door was double-locked with the key. Is that still a no-damage job? Often, but less often than a door that was only pulled to. A locked bolt has to be worked through the cylinder, and some cylinders resist that by design. You are told which it is before anything is done. ### Can you open the street door of our block if nobody inside answers? Only with the agreement of someone entitled to it: a resident, the community’s administrator or the owner. A street door belongs to everyone in the building. ### Do you open the side door or the roller shutter of an industrial unit? Yes, on the estates as well as in town, for whoever is responsible for the unit. Shutters, padlocks and unit locks are covered on the commercial page. ## After the door gives - [**Replacing a worn cylinder** The lock is worn, or I want a new one](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/lock-change-crevillente/) - [**Old-town doors and locks** I live in the Coves or the Vila Vella](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/cave-house-locksmith-crevillente/) - [**An emergency call-out** I can’t get in, and it can’t wait](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/emergency-locksmith-crevillente/) Guides that send readers here - [What sits behind the front door of a cave house](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/blog/behind-the-front-door-of-a-cave-house/) · 5 min - [Keys left at work, and the train home to Crevillente](https://locksmithcrevillente.es/blog/keys-left-at-work-and-the-train-home/) · 4 min ## Send a photo of the door A photo of the lock and the edge of the door tells us most of what we need. Or ring and describe it. 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