Door entry system repair in Seville, Spain: intercom handsets, entrance panels, door releases and doorbells

Door entry system repair in Seville, Spain: we find where it fails

An intercom that does not ring, an entrance panel with a stuck button or a door release that buzzes but does not open turn every visitor and every parcel into a problem. In Spain this system is called the portero automático, and the handset in your flat is the telefonillo. Door entry system repair starts by finding out whether the fault is in your home or in the common part of the building, because that decides who pays and what needs replacing. We check it on the same visit, in flats and apartment buildings in Seville.

What we repair and install

• Intercom handsets: repair or replacement with a model compatible with the building’s panel.
• Entrance panels: broken buttons, audio modules with no sound, lighting of the name cards and panels damaged by rain or vandalism.
• Door releases: electric strikes that do not work and their power supply.
• Door entry power supplies, which overheat over the years and leave the whole building without service.
• Doorbells, wired or wireless, for flats and houses.
• Access control with a proximity reader, keypad or phone opening for street doors, garages and offices.

Typical cases in Seville

• Blocks from the 1960s to the 1980s. In La Macarena, Cerro-Amate, San Pablo or Triana many buildings keep their original system: an aluminium panel, an old power supply and multi-wire cabling up the stairs. When a part fails, sometimes no spare exists any more and it is better to renew the panel and the power supply while keeping the cabling.
• Buildings that want video entry. It is the upgrade owners’ meetings approve most often. If the cabling allows it, the panel is replaced and each neighbour decides whether to fit a monitor or keep a compatible handset.
• Street doors with no access control. In large buildings, such as those in Dos Hermanas or Nervión, owners ask to replace keys with cards so a lost card can be cancelled without changing the lock. If you would rather control a single door from your phone, see smart locks.
• Villas and townhouses. A doorbell at the gate that opens the pedestrian door and, if the gate is motorised, integration with its control unit. Motorised gates are covered under automatic gates.

How we work

1. You tell us what fails and since when; a photo of the panel and the handset tells us the brand and the system.
2. We test the system in your home, on the stairs and at the panel to locate the fault.
3. We give you a fixed price, separating the part that belongs to the home from the part that belongs to the comunidad.
4. We repair or replace the part and test calling, audio and opening from every affected home.

If the fault leaves the whole building without service, it is part of our work on building maintenance.

Guide prices

Prices estimated from market rates. We give you a fixed price after seeing the installation. More references on the prices page.

Regulations

Door entry systems and doorbells run at very low voltage and are installed under ITC-BT-36 of the Spanish Low Voltage Electrotechnical Regulation; access control systems, under ITC-BT-51 and the UNE-EN 60839 standard. In apartment buildings, renewing the panel and the shared system is approved at the owners’ meeting under the Horizontal Property Law. The rest of our signal and security services are under telecoms and security.