Guides
Notes on the doors and locks of the Elda valley
Written for the homes, fincas and premises of this valley: the doors of the old estates, wood through hot and cold seasons, fiesta weekends, country properties, former workshops and safes nobody can open. Each one ends with the service that deals with it.
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Flats and old front doors
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The castle quarter works and your front door
The streets around Elda’s castle are being rebuilt, and the old town is meant to become the centre of the town’s life again. If you own a house there, a renovation is the moment to get the front door right.
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The original doors of Elda’s 1960s estates
Elda built whole estates of flats in the fifties and sixties for the families of the shoe trade. If your front door dates from then, here is what its lock can and cannot do.
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Hot afternoons, cold nights and a wooden door
Elda is an inland town at 395 metres, not a seaside one. Its wooden doors live through hot summers and cold winter nights, and they move with them. Here is what that does to a lock.
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Getting help to the door
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Elda or Petrer? Describing where you are
Elda and Petrer have grown into one built-up area of almost 87,000 people. From the street, it is not always clear which town you are in. Here is how to describe your address so help comes straight to you.
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When the Entrada has closed your street
For five days around the first weekend of June, Moros y Cristianos fills central Elda with parades. If you are shut out while the street is closed, this is how help still reaches your door.
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Workshops, offices and safes
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The office safe only the retired founder could open
In many firms one person opens the safe for decades. When that person retires, falls ill or dies, the code can go with them. This is how to get it open properly, and how to stop it happening again.
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Moving into an old shoe workshop? Start with the shutter
Elda’s shoe industry once worked in the middle of town, until Campo Alto was built in the 1980s to move it out. A ground floor that was once a workshop comes with locks of its own.
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