--- title: "A Riodel Unit That Will Not Open on a Saturday Morning" description: "The van is loaded, the order is due and the unit door will not open. What to check at a Riodel unit before calling anyone, and what to have ready when you do." url: "https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/a-riodel-unit-that-will-not-open-on-saturday/" business: "Locksmith Mutxamel" --- # A unit at Riodel that will not open on a Saturday morning The van is loaded, the order is due and the side door of the unit will not open. What to check at Riodel before calling anybody, and what to have ready when you do. 30 October 2026 · 4 min read The Riodel industrial park sits beside the road from Mutxamel to Xixona: some 350,000 m², created in 2009, with more than 25 firms working there. Saturdays are quieter, which is exactly when a stuck door costs most: fewer people around, nobody from the office to ring, and an order that has to go out. ## Check these first **The right key, the right way up.** Units collect keys: side door, shutter padlock, office, alarm box. Under pressure it is easy to try the office key in the side door three times. **The alarm.** Some units will not release a door, or will trigger the alarm, until the system is disarmed. If the keypad is inside, call whoever holds the code before anything else. **A padlock gone stiff.** Padlocks on shutters live outdoors. A dry lubricant (graphite or PTFE, never oil, which collects dust) and a few gentle turns sometimes bring one back. **The door, not the lock.** If the key turns but the door does not move, push it hard towards the frame while turning: a door that has dropped or swollen can trap the bolt in its keep. ## If something looks wrong Scratches round the cylinder, a padlock that is not yours, a door that opens too easily: stop, do not go in, and ring the police. Since its 2022 modernisation the park has had a closed-circuit camera system linked to the Policía Local, so tell them which unit and roughly when. Then read [how doors get forced](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/snapped-bumped-or-picked/) and what a [repair after a forced entry](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/burglary-repair-mutxamel/) involves. ## What to have ready when you call - The unit number and the company name on the door. - Who can speak for the business, and something that shows it: company papers, a lease, or the owner on the phone. - A photo of the lock or padlock on WhatsApp. - Whether the shutter is manual or motorised. Motors and electrics are not part of the job; locks are. Once the door is open, decide whether the cylinder should be changed today. If keys have gone missing with a former employee, the answer is yes. If you are at home and the keys are at the unit, the opposite problem, [this guide](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/keys-left-at-work-in-alicante/) is the one to read. Unit still shut? Doors on business premises are opened and their cylinders changed, early, late or at the weekend. [Commercial locksmith Mutxamel, for counters in town and units at Riodel](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/commercial-locksmith-mutxamel/) Two more worth a look - [Keys left at work in Alicante, and home is ten kilometres away](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/keys-left-at-work-in-alicante/) · 3 min - [Snapped, bumped or picked: how front doors are forced](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/snapped-bumped-or-picked/) · 5 min - [Every guide for Mutxamel](https://locksmithmutxamel.es/blog/) ## Easier to explain it on the phone? Ring at any hour, or send a photo of the door and a location pin on WhatsApp. Open 24 hours · 7 days [+34 678 583 290](tel:+34678583290) [WhatsApp](https://wa.me/34678583290?text=Hi%2C%20I%20need%20a%20locksmith%20in%20Mutxamel.%20Where%20I%20am%20(street%2C%20and%20the%20urbanization%20or%20partida%3A%20Bonalba%2C%20Valle%20del%20Sol%2C%20El%20Ravalet%2C%20Riodel%E2%80%A6)%20and%20what%20has%20happened%3A)