--- title: "New Build Locksmith Pilar de la Horadada | After Handover" description: "New homes in Pilar de la Horadada made yours after handover: builder’s cylinders replaced, doors adjusted after their first summer, storeroom locks done." url: "https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/new-build-locksmith-pilar-de-la-horadada/" business: "Locksmith Pilar de la Horadada" --- # New build locksmith Pilar de la Horadada, for the weeks after handover A new home arrives with cylinders that went through a building site, a front door that has not yet lived through a summer, and a storeroom and garage with locks of their own. One visit soon after handover makes all of them yours. Open 24 hours · 7 days [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp a photo of the door](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Pilar%20de%20la%20Horadada.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%20and%20area%3A%20La%20Torre%2C%20Mil%20Palmeras%2C%20El%20Moj%C3%B3n%2C%20Campoverde%2C%20the%20town%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A) - Builder’s cylinders replaced - Doors adjusted, not forced - Price agreed before any work ![Close to a modern charcoal door, a man in glasses and a turquoise polo adjusts the lock beside a tall stainless pull handle, white walls and a garden behind](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/images/photos/screwdriver-at-a-dark-door-with-a-long-bar-handle.ec93ae0a.600.jpg) **Why change the locks of a home nobody has lived in?** Because people have. During a build, doors are hung early and opened by many trades, keys pass from hand to hand, and some sites fit temporary cylinders for the works. Nobody can tell you how many keys went round. A new cylinder settles it. ## A municipality still being built Between January and September 2021, Pilar de la Horadada started 265 new homes, more than any other municipality in the Vega Baja: Torrevieja started 230 and Orihuela 222, according to Alicante’s professional college of building surveyors (aparejadores). New developments are still being sold in Mil Palmeras and beside the Lo Romero golf course, and the estates either side of the old tower at La Torre are among the newer parts of the coast. So handovers are a regular part of life here, and so are the questions that follow them. If you are still waiting for yours, two guides help first: [what the builder’s specification says about your door](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/the-memoria-de-calidades-and-your-front-door/) and [what to test on handover day](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/handover-day-doors-and-locks-to-test/). ## What gets looked at in a new home | Door | What usually needs doing | Whose job | | --- | --- | --- | | Front door | Cylinder replaced; latch and bolts checked against the frame | Yours to decide. A defect in the door itself goes to the builder first. | | Terrace slider | Hook lock and rollers checked; alignment | Sliders have [their own page](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/sliding-door-locksmith-pilar-de-la-horadada/). | | Storeroom (trastero) | Lock replaced or adjusted; door checked for swelling | Yours. [More on storeroom locks](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/storeroom-and-garage-locks-in-a-new-block/). | | Garage door to your space | Cylinder or lock replaced | Yours, if it serves only your space. | | Community gate and street door | Nothing, unless the community asks | The community, through its administrator. | | Safe in the wardrobe | Code reset; fixed to the floor or wall | Yours. See [safes](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/safe-opening-pilar-de-la-horadada/). | ## Doors that move once the house has settled A door hung in a new house meets its first real heat and its first damp winter in the same year. Frames shift by a millimetre or two, and a latch that met its keep perfectly at handover starts to catch, or the bolts of a multipoint stop throwing cleanly. Forcing the key is what breaks things. Most of the time the fix is an adjustment of the hinges or the keep, not a new lock. Under Spain’s building law (the LOE), the builder answers for defects in finishes for one year from handover, so put it to them in writing first; if you would rather have it done now, it is done and you keep the invoice. A home that has been lived in for years is a different job, on [the lock change page](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/lock-change-pilar-de-la-horadada/). If you are locked out of the new place before any of this, [the door is opened the gentle way](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/door-opening-pilar-de-la-horadada/). ## How a handover visit goes 1. **Tell us what you were handed** How many keys, whether they came sealed, and which doors: front, slider, storeroom, garage. 2. **Book a day** Planned work, at a time that suits you, ideally in the first weeks after handover. 3. **Each door checked** Cylinders measured, latches and bolts tried against the frame, anything that drags noted. 4. **Options and price, then the work** You see what is fitted and what could replace it, agree the price, and only then is anything changed. Everywhere in the municipality, from Mil Palmeras to Lo Romero: [where we go](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/coverage/). To book, [use whichever channel suits](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/contact/). ## Questions from new owners ### The builder handed us sealed keys. Do we still need new cylinders? Not always. If the keys came in a sealed pack with a security card, and the cylinder is a recognised make, it may be one fitted for you at the end. If the keys were loose or on a builder’s ring, change the cylinders. ### Should the builder fix a front door that has started to stick? Usually, yes. Under Spain’s building law the builder answers for defects in finishes for one year from handover, so report it in writing first. If you would rather not wait, it can be adjusted and you keep the invoice. ### Can you change the lock on the community gate of our block? Only with the community’s say-so, through the administrator or the president, because every owner has a key to it. Your own front door, storeroom and garage door are yours to decide. ### Is it worth fitting a better cylinder than the one in the specification? Often it is the cheapest upgrade a new door can get. A good anti-snap cylinder fitted flush with the guard plate costs little next to the door itself. You are shown what is there and what could replace it. ## Usually next in a new home - [**Sliding door locks** The terrace door won’t slide or won’t lock](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/sliding-door-locksmith-pilar-de-la-horadada/) - [**Changing or repairing a lock** The lock is worn, or too many people have a key](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/lock-change-pilar-de-la-horadada/) - [**Help with a safe** The safe won’t open](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/safe-opening-pilar-de-la-horadada/) Guides that point here - [Handover day: the doors and locks to test before you sign](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/handover-day-doors-and-locks-to-test/) · 6 min - [The trastero and the garage: whose lock is it?](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/storeroom-and-garage-locks-in-a-new-block/) · 4 min - [The memoria de calidades: what it says about your front door](https://locksmithpilardelahoradada.es/blog/the-memoria-de-calidades-and-your-front-door/) · 5 min ## Just been handed the keys? Tell us which doors you were given keys for, and how they came. We will say what is worth changing. [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Pilar%20de%20la%20Horadada.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%20and%20area%3A%20La%20Torre%2C%20Mil%20Palmeras%2C%20El%20Moj%C3%B3n%2C%20Campoverde%2C%20the%20town%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A)