Barcelonès · Barcelona
A lock that has gone stiff, a key that turns without opening, a door that no longer lines up: these rarely need replacing. It is usually wear, dirt, or a door that has dropped on its hinges, and repairing costs about half what replacing does.
The rate is the same in all 54 towns we cover: distance is never charged separately. What moves the amount is the hour, the day and the type of lock.
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Find out what it actually is
Stiffness is usually wear, dirt or a door that has dropped on its hinges — not a lock that has failed.
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Clean, lubricate, adjust
In most cases that is the whole job. Repairing costs about half what replacing does, and it is the right answer more often than people expect.
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Replace only what has to be
If a part is genuinely worn out, you see it before and after.
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Tested with the door shut
A lock that works with the door open and binds when it is closed has not been fixed.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat has 23,561 people per km², against 1,535 across the towns we cover. In a city like this the arrival time is not decided by the road, it is decided by the last hundred metres: getting there is easy, parking is not. That is why emergencies go by motorbike, and it is not a brochure line — it is the difference between leaving it at your door and circling the block in a van while somebody waits on the landing.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat registers 4,802 hotel beds for 292,161 registered residents, where the median across our towns is 304. The place fills with people who do not live here, and a good share of the summer callouts are exactly that: holiday flats where the key belongs to an owner nobody can reach, doors that shut themselves with the luggage inside, hire cars with the keys still in them. In those cases the lock is not the first question — the first question is who is entitled to have it opened, because without that nobody touches the door.
72.3 % of the main homes in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat are under 60 m² — the median is 21.3 %, at 23,561 people per km². This is vertical living, and it pushes the work towards the communal: street doors that stop latching, forced letterboxes, storage rooms and garage doors. In a block there are two things worth checking before anyone sets off — whether a neighbour or the administrator holds a spare, and whether the door is one of those that locks itself behind you when you step out with the bins. That last one is the single most repeated callout there is.
Housing and population data: Idescat · El municipio en cifras (EMEX). Retrieved 2026-09-05. Medians are those of the 52 towns with a profile inside our coverage area.
45-65 min from our base in Cubelles, worked out over the real road routes with room to set off and for traffic. At rush hour or in August it can run longer — and if it is going to, we tell you on WhatsApp before you commit rather than when we arrive.
From 69 €, VAT included. The final amount depends on the hour, the day and the type of lock, and you get it in full on WhatsApp before anyone sets off. The distance to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat is not added to the price — the rate is the same across all the towns we cover.
A call-out with diagnosis and no work done is 49 €, and you are told that before anyone leaves, so there is no surprise at the end. If the problem can be solved over WhatsApp, we solve it over WhatsApp and it costs nothing.
Yes, 24 hours a year round. The night and holiday rates are higher than a Tuesday morning, and you are told which one applies when you message. There is no hidden surcharge.
That is exactly why emergencies go by motorbike. In a place as dense as L'Hospitalet de Llobregat the last hundred metres decide the arrival time far more than the road does, and a van circling for a space is time you spend on the landing. For booked installation work we do need the van, so we agree a time when there is somewhere to leave it.
Only with the owner or the agency behind it — a booking confirmation is not the same as being entitled to have a lock opened, and no locksmith working legally can treat it as such. Send us the booking and the contact and we deal with them directly; it is usually one message. If the flat is managed by an agency they nearly always answer faster than you would expect, because it is their lock.
Tell us what happened and where you are. You get a price and a time before anyone sets off.
24 hours, every day of the year