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title: "Guardamar del Segura Guides: Sand, Shut Houses and Locks"
description: "Sand in a cylinder, a house shut since September, directions to a bungalow in El Raso: short guides on what to do first with doors and locks in Guardamar."
url: "https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/"
business: "Locksmith Guardamar del Segura"
---

# Notes from the dunes: doors, locks and what to do first

Written for the questions that come up in Guardamar more than anywhere else: a house that has been shut since September, sand in a cylinder or a terrace track, a bungalow in El Raso that looks like all its neighbours. Each guide says what you can do yourself, and when it is time to ring someone.

## Houses that wait for summer

- 4 min read [You bought a flat, and the safe in the wardrobe will not open](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/bought-a-flat-with-a-locked-safe/) The deeds say nothing about the safe. Who to ask first, what the maker can and cannot do, and how it is opened if nobody has the code.
- 5 min read [Three homes in four stand empty: what the winter does to their locks](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/three-homes-in-four-stand-empty/) Guardamar has the lowest share of lived-in homes of any Spanish town over 10,000 people. What months without a key do to a lock, and a short routine for leaving and coming back.
- 4 min read [Who else can open your door? Counting the keys you have lost track of](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/who-else-can-open-your-door/) The agency, the cleaner, the neighbour, tenants from three summers ago, the builder. A way to count who can open a house that stands empty most of the year, and when to stop counting.

## Sand, salt and wind

- 4 min read [Reopening a beach shop in spring, and the shutter will not budge](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/reopening-a-beach-shop-in-spring/) Months of sea air on a shutter padlock and a door cylinder. What to check the week before reopening, what to try on the morning, and what not to force.
- 4 min read [Sand in the cylinder: what helps, and what turns it to paste](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/sand-in-a-door-cylinder/) A key that grinds in a lock near the beach is usually sand. What is safe to try, why oil makes it worse, and how to tell when the cylinder is past cleaning.
- 4 min read [A sliding door full of sand that no longer locks](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/sand-in-a-sliding-door-track/) Terrace doors near the dunes fill their tracks with sand. How to clean the track and its drain slots, how to tell sand from a worn roller, and when the lock itself is to blame.

## Finding the right door

- 4 min read [A low house in the 1829 grid: street door, patio and back gate](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/a-low-house-in-the-1829-grid/) Guardamar was rebuilt after 1829 as straight streets of low houses with deep patios. Three doors to think about in one of them, and which one usually lets you down.
- 3 min read [How to describe a house in El Raso so the right door is found](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/directions-to-a-house-in-el-raso/) Rows of bungalows that look alike, a lagoon on one side, an urbanization with two names on the map. What to say on the phone so help reaches the right door first time.
- 3 min read [Keys locked in the car at the edge of the pinada](https://locksmithguardamardelsegura.es/blog/keys-locked-in-the-car-by-the-pinada/) Cars do not go into the pine forest, so they wait at its edge with the keys sometimes still inside. What to try, what not to do to a modern car, and what to have ready.

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