--- title: "Door Opening Jávea | Flats, Port Houses, Villas, Armoured" description: "Door opening in Jávea for Arenal flats, old-town and port houses, villas and armoured doors: the latch and the cylinder come first, the drill only if you say yes." url: "https://locksmithjavea.es/door-opening-javea/" business: "Locksmith Jávea" --- # Door opening Jávea: latch first, cylinder second, drill last Most front doors in Xàbia can be opened through the latch or the cylinder and still shut and lock afterwards. The drill is the last tool in the case, and it is only used once you have said yes. Open 24 hours · 7 days [Call +34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp a photo](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20J%C3%A1vea.%20The%20urbanisation%20or%20street%2C%20a%20landmark%20near%20the%20gate%2C%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A) Proof that you live or are staying there is asked for before any door is opened. ![A man in a burgundy polo works a screwdriver into the cylinder of a tall grey door beside a long steel handle, a grey van and a cliff over the sea behind him](https://locksmithjavea.es/images/photos/screwdriver-at-a-grey-pivot-door.5b03a6a8.600.jpg) ## Four kinds of front door in Xàbia The town was built in three different places and periods, and its doors show it. - **Flats at the Arenal** Apartment blocks round the municipality’s only sandy beach. Many have armoured doors with a cylinder and several bolts; the bolts thrown or not makes the difference. - **Old town houses** Wooden doors in tosca-stone doorways, often with a mortice lock and an iron grille in front. Opened from the lock, never by forcing old timber. - **Port houses** The whitewashed ground-floor houses of Duanes de la Mar, whose doors open straight onto the street: usually a single cylinder and latch. - **Villa doors** Heavy timber or the tall aluminium pivot doors of newer villas, with multipoint locks. The garden gate and the slider have [a page of their own](https://locksmithjavea.es/villa-locksmith-javea/). ## The order every door is tried in The least damaging method that the door allows comes first. Each step is only taken when the one before it has been ruled out, and you are told before it changes. A door shut on you right now, at night or on a Sunday, is [the emergency service](https://locksmithjavea.es/emergency-locksmith-javea/); the methods are the same. 1. **The latch** If the door was only pulled shut, the latch can often be eased back without touching the lock. 2. **The cylinder, worked** Opened as a key would open it, leaving it working. 3. **The cylinder, replaced** If it cannot be worked, the cylinder alone is sacrificed and a new one fitted straight away. 4. **The drill, with your yes** Only when nothing else will do, and only once you have agreed to it and to the price. ## Armoured doors in the apartment blocks An armoured door is only as hard to open as the way it was left. Pulled shut on the latch, it is often straightforward. Locked with the key, its bolts are out on every side and the work goes through the cylinder. Either way the leaf and the frame are not touched: they are the expensive part, and nothing is gained by harming them. If the cylinder is replaced, it is worth choosing one that resists snapping and bumping at the same time, which is [booked work on the front door](https://locksmithjavea.es/lock-change-javea/) if you would rather choose it calmly another day. ## Wooden doors in the tosca streets The old town was walled until 1874, and many of its houses keep their wooden doors, sometimes with an iron gate or grille in front. Old timber splits if it is forced, and an old mortice lock can usually be opened and kept. Where there is an iron gate as well, its lock is opened rather than the ironwork cut: [what happens when the gate key has gone](https://locksmithjavea.es/blog/the-iron-gate-in-front-of-an-old-town-door/). ## Ground-floor doors at the port In Duanes de la Mar the front door is on the street itself, with no portal or garden in between. They are simple to open and, for the same reason, worth securing well: [what a street-level door asks of its lock](https://locksmithjavea.es/blog/a-ground-floor-door-in-duanes-de-la-mar/). ## Before the door is opened You are asked to show that you live or are staying there: an ID with the address, a rental contract, a booking or a message from the owner. The price is agreed at the door, before any work. If the door shows signs of having been forced or slipped, ring the Guardia Civil before anything is touched, and see [what happens after a break-in](https://locksmithjavea.es/burglary-repair-javea/). ## What people want to know about their door ### Will the door look any different after it has been opened? When it is opened through the latch or by working the cylinder, no. If the cylinder has to be sacrificed, the door itself is untouched and a new cylinder is fitted before the locksmith leaves, so it locks the same evening. ### The door was only pulled shut, not locked with the key. Is that easier to open? Usually, yes: a latch alone can often be worked back without touching the cylinder. That is also why a door that is only pulled shut is not secure, and why it is worth turning the key every time you go out. ### Can an armoured door be opened without damage? Often, depending on the cylinder and whether the bolts were thrown with the key. When it cannot, the work is done on the cylinder, never on the leaf or the frame, and a replacement cylinder is fitted on the spot. ### Do you open doors for people who are only renting? Yes, with proof that you live or are staying there: a rental contract, a booking, or a message from the owner or manager. Without any of that, the door is not opened. ## Next jobs for a door in Xàbia - [**changing the locks** booked work](https://locksmithjavea.es/lock-change-javea/) - [**help when the door has shut on you** any hour, any day](https://locksmithjavea.es/emergency-locksmith-javea/) - [**locks on a villa’s gates and sliders** everything past the front door](https://locksmithjavea.es/villa-locksmith-javea/) Guides on this - [The iron gate in front of an old-town door, and the key that has gone](https://locksmithjavea.es/blog/the-iron-gate-in-front-of-an-old-town-door/) ## Which kind of door is yours? Send a photo of the outside of the door and the lock on WhatsApp, or ring and describe it. 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