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Security Doors in Clifton Beach

Made to measure doors and window screens for Clifton Beach houses and units, judged on how they work on an ordinary day and on the worst one.

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Clifton Beach sits about 20 km north of the Cairns CBD, backed by the Macalister Range and fronted by the Coral Sea, with Arlington and Upolu Esplanades on the beachfront. A security door here is chosen once and then opened several times a day for years, so two questions matter as much as the mesh. Can you work it with your hands full, and can everyone in the house get out through it. The Queensland Fire Department asks households to fit locks that need no key from the inside, and to choose window security screens that can be opened from the inside. We make doors and screens to measure, and we repair the hardware on doors already fitted. Ask us for a measure.

Two storey modern home with security screens enclosing the poolside patio

Judge a security door twice. Once on an ordinary Tuesday, with shopping in one hand and a key in the other, and once on the worst day the house ever has, when everyone inside needs to be out through it. Most security screen copy answers neither question, because both are settled by the hardware rather than the mesh: the handle, the latch, the lock, and whatever releases it from the inside. Clifton Beach holds 3,192 residents across 1,671 private dwellings, 66.8 percent of them separate houses and 21.5 percent flats.

Why security doors matters in Clifton Beach

Start with getting out. The Queensland Fire Department tells households to have one common key for all door locks, or to install locks that do not require a key from the inside, to choose window security screens that can be opened from the inside, and to show all occupants, including overnight visitors, how to escape through security doors or windows if an emergency occurs. That advice is written for every household, and it is not an argument against fitting a security door. It is an argument for asking about the internal hardware on purpose instead of accepting whatever arrives on it.

Then the door already hanging there. The jobs this business is called out for are named on its own repairs page: a door that will not lock or close properly, a broken handle, a key that jams, and sliding doors that roll incorrectly, jam, bounce, fail to close or jump off the track. All of those are repairs, done onsite. That matters more on a beachfront street than it does inland, because corrosion rarely shows on the mesh first. It shows as a mechanism gone stiff, and Cairns averages put 9am relative humidity around 72 percent, so salt landing on hardware does not stay dry.

One further reference point, and it is guidance rather than a rule for a private house. Assistive Technology Australia advises that lever handles are preferred over doorknobs, because a doorknob does not give an adequate grip to a hand with impairment, that a handle should be shaped so the hand of a person who cannot grip will not slip off it while the latch is being operated, and that D pull handles are preferred on sliding doors. That is an independent assistive technology authority describing generic hardware, not a compliance requirement on a house, so treat it as a yardstick to hold a handle against.

Everything here is made to measure rather than pulled from a stock size. What this page cannot tell you is which internal release hardware, handle type or keying arrangement will be available on your door. So each of those belongs in the conversation at the measure, as a question to put to any supplier you are asking for a quote, including us.

Locks and screens nobody can open from the inside without hunting for a key

Doors and screens get added to a house over years, by different owners and different installers, so keys multiply and internal release is never decided as one question. The Queensland Fire Department takes the opposite approach and asks households to plan getting out before the hardware is chosen. The Queensland Government states that security devices such as deadlocks and window grills can stop you and your family from getting out of the house in a fire. It also asks every home to hold an evacuation plan that each family member knows. Bring the fire department's own wording to the measure and ask what your door will release with from the inside, then ask the same of any other quote you get. We are not going to answer that from a web page, because what a given system can take is a question for the opening in front of us. On a door already fitted, lock hardware is replaceable onsite.

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Hinged security screen door fitted over a grey front door on a brick home entry

Window security screens that were specified on security alone

A fixed grille is simpler to make and simpler to quote, so window screens tend to be specified for what they keep out and nothing else. The Queensland Fire Department covers windows separately from doors for a reason, and the thing it asks about a window screen is whether it can be opened from the inside. That advice is written for every household, and a bedroom is where it bites. If the way out of the room is blocked, the window is the alternative, and whether the screen on it opens from the inside was settled on the day it was fitted rather than on the day it matters. Window screens are made to measure alongside the doors. Whether a given screen can be opened from the inside is a question to ask room by room, of us and of anyone else quoting, and the fire department's wording is a useful way to put it. What nobody should do is assume the answer before the opening has been looked at.

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A key that has started to jam and a lock that has stiffened

The repairs page names this exact set of symptoms because they are the calls that come in: a door not locking or closing properly, a broken handle, a key jamming. Coastal air is the accelerant, because Cairns humidity keeps what lands on hardware wet rather than dry. A lock that needs two hands and a wiggle today is the lock that will not turn at all later, and it is also the lock somebody has to work while holding something. Lock cylinders and complete locks are replaced onsite when a door will not lock or close properly, the handle is broken, or the key jams. That is the first thing to price, well before anyone talks about a new door.

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A sliding screen that has to be shoved to move

Wheels and tracks are the wearing parts of a sliding screen. The repairs page lists sliding doors that roll incorrectly, jam, bounce, fail to close or jump off the track as standard jobs, which is what a worn wheel or a damaged track looks like from the handle end. A sliding screen that needs a shove is the one that gets left open, and an open screen is not doing the job it was bought for. Wheels and tracks are replaced onsite. Worth knowing before you accept that the door itself is the problem: a dragging slider is usually one wearing part rather than the whole leaf.

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The mesh gets chosen and the hardware gets whatever comes with it

Security screen marketing is written about mesh and view, and the objection it answers is that a screen spoils the outlook, phrased on this business's own product page as no longer needing to look at ugly grills, bars or similar obstructions that spoil your view. So the questions asked at the measure are usually about mesh. The mesh is what you look through; the hardware is what you touch. PERFGUARD hinged and sliding doors, for instance, were tested using three point locking hardware, which means one handle movement has to throw bolts at three points. How that handle feels is not a trivial detail. The handle, the lock and the way the door is hung are worth raising at the measure rather than after installation. Ask us for the current test certificate for whichever product you are considering, and ask what the handle on it actually does; that gets answered once the system and the opening are both in front of us.

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Made to Measure Security Doors

Hinged and sliding security doors made to measure in Cairns rather than supplied in stock sizes, in your choice of mesh and frame colour. Clifton Beach runs 66.8 percent separate houses and 21.5 percent flats, so one street can need a wide hinged front door on a house and a narrow sliding screen on a unit landing. Made to measure covers both, and the handle and the lock are worth asking about at the same time as the opening.

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Corner detail of a security screen door showing the mesh held in the aluminium frame

Security Window Screens

Security window screens and grilles made to measure to the opening, in the same mesh options as the doors. The Queensland Fire Department asks households to choose window security screens that can be opened from the inside, and to ensure any window grill bars or screens readily open outwards from the inside. On a Clifton Beach bedroom window, that is a question to put to us and to anyone else quoting before a screen is chosen.

View from inside a home through black-framed security screens to a tropical garden with palms and a rock-edged pool

SCREENGUARD 316 Stainless Steel Mesh

316 marine grade stainless steel mesh in T6 grade high tensile extruded aluminium frames, manufactured and finished in Queensland in a range of colours. SCREENGUARD frames are T6 grade high tensile extruded aluminium, manufactured and finished in Queensland in a range of colours, so on a Clifton Beach entry the frame finish and the handle get decided together rather than one after the other. The 10 year manufacturer's warranty is conditional: regular maintenance with SCREENGUARD Powawash is required for it to hold.

Dark security screens on the sliding door and windows of a white painted brick home with a tropical garden bed

PERFGUARD Perforated Aluminium

2mm perforated aluminium mesh, powder coated black and corrosion resistant, with the manufacturer stating around 40 percent view through, carrying a 7 year product warranty from installation with conditions. PERFGUARD hinged and sliding doors were tested using three point locking hardware, so on a Clifton Beach front entry or patio it is fair to ask what a single handle movement has to do before the door counts as locked. The same panel does the privacy and sun screening job on an exposed opening.

Side by side comparison of a garden view seen directly and through black perforated aluminium screen mesh

Diamond Grille

The cost effective security screen, built around a visible diamond pattern grille. Four product lines at different price points means a Clifton Beach household on a fixed budget is not pushed to the top of the range to get something made to measure. Diamond Grille normally takes a fibreglass infill mesh, which will not rust, rot or corrode this close to the beach.

Colonial Casting

Decorative security doors in a modern style or a heritage style range, for a front door or to enclose a patio. For a Clifton Beach entry that faces the street rather than the water, a cast door carries the look while still being made to measure. It can be combined with DVA one way vision mesh where the door faces the footpath, though DVA is a privacy mesh rather than a security product on its own.

Pair of cream decorative cast security screen doors with a scroll pattern over timber windows

Onsite Repairs: Locks, Wheels and Tracks

Onsite replacement of lock cylinders and complete locks, sliding door wheels and tracks, door closers, hinges, triple locks and patio bolts, plus pet doors fitted to existing security doors. On a Clifton Beach door about 20 km north of the Cairns CBD, the question worth asking first is whether the hardware can be replaced rather than the door. The symptoms are listed on the repairs page because they are the calls that come in.

Hinged security screen door fitted over a grey front door on a brick home entry
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Credentials you can check

The best evidenced part of this page is the repair work, and the reason is worth saying: it is the one service here that rests on what the business does rather than on what a source recommends, because its own site names both the faults and the parts. On new work, SCREENGUARD stainless doors have been through dynamic impact, knife shear, anti-jemmy, and pull and probe testing, while PERFGUARD window grilles and hinged and sliding doors passed dynamic impact, pull, jemmy, knife shear and probe tests, the doors tested using three point locking hardware. We will show you the test documentation for whichever line you are weighing up. Everything is made to measure rather than supplied in stock sizes, and the business describes itself as local family owned, operated and manufactured in Cairns Queensland. QBCC licence 1199847 is displayed in the header and footer of the business's own website and can be checked against the QBCC online licence search, and behind it is a sole trader, Dan Frances Cronin, with ABN 37 916 171 681 active since October 2013.

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Tested Security Screens
SCREENGUARD states its stainless steel mesh screens pass dynamic impact, knife shear, anti-jemmy, and pull and probe testing. PERFGUARD adds a probe test, with hinged and sliding doors tested using three point locking hardware.
10 Year Manufacturer's Warranty
SCREENGUARD products carry a full 10 year manufacturer's warranty. Regular maintenance with SCREENGUARD Powawash is required to comply.
Locally Made
Family owned and operated. Doors and screens are made to measure and manufactured in Cairns; SCREENGUARD frames are manufactured and finished in Queensland.

Questions we get asked

Can everyone in the house get out through a security door or window screen in an emergency?

Only if the hardware was chosen with that in mind, which is why it belongs in the quote conversation rather than after installation. The Queensland Fire Department's home fire safety guidance is the checklist to use, and it turns on three things: how the locks across the house are keyed, whether a screen can be released from the inside without hunting for a key, and whether every occupant has actually been shown how to get out through a security door or window. What no web page can tell you is what your particular door and opening will take. So put all three to any supplier quoting on the job, this one included.

My screen door has gone stiff and hard to close. What is actually worn?

Usually one of three parts rather than the door. On a hinged door, check the hinges and the door closer, since the closer is the part pushing back as you open it. On a sliding door, lift it slightly: if the drag disappears, the wheels or the track are the suspects. If the movement is fine but the key is the problem, the cylinder is what wears. All three are replaced onsite.

Which of your ranges takes an insect mesh behind it?

Diamond Grille and Colonial Casting take fibreglass mesh as standard, a tight weave that will not rust, rot or corrode, and the same fibreglass is the standard flyscreen infill. The fine 316 marine grade woven stainless and the 2mm perforated aluminium are close enough weaves to serve as the infill themselves. DVA one way vision is a privacy mesh rather than a security product, so it goes behind a Diamond Grille or Colonial Casting screen.

We have a dog that pushes the back screen rather than waiting for it. What handles that?

Pet mesh, or a pet door, depending on the door. Pet mesh is a thicker fibreglass with some give in it, made for households with pets or a high traffic doorway, so it takes being pushed rather than pulled. A pet door can also be fitted into a security door you already have. Which of the two suits the door is worth settling at the measure, because it changes the infill choice for that opening.

Clifton Beach is about 20 km north of the Cairns CBD. Does that change how a measure works?

Not in substance. Clifton Beach sits about 20 km north of the Cairns CBD, backed by the Macalister Range, with Clifton Village on the corner of the Captain Cook Highway and Endeavour Road as the local reference point. Every door and screen is made to measure rather than pulled from a stock size, so the opening has to be measured where it is, at the property. Bring the questions about handles and internal release to that visit.

How are your security doors tested?

SCREENGUARD stainless steel mesh doors are put through dynamic impact, knife shear, anti-jemmy, and pull and probe testing. PERFGUARD window grilles and hinged and sliding doors pass the same set plus a probe test, with the doors tested using three point locking hardware. Ask us for the current test certificate for whichever product you are considering and we will pass it on.

What warranty comes with your security doors?

SCREENGUARD products carry a full 10 year manufacturer's warranty, and the warranty card is provided at the time of installation. Regular maintenance with SCREENGUARD Powawash is required to keep that warranty valid. PERFGUARD products carry a 7 year warranty from the date of installation. Conditions apply to both, and we will go through them with you.

Can you repair my existing security door?

Yes, and we repair onsite. The common jobs are replacing a lock cylinder or the complete lock when a door will not close properly or the key jams, and replacing the wheels or track work on sliding doors that bounce, jam, or jump off the track. We also replace door closers, hinges, triple locks and patio bolts.

Can you fit a pet door to my security door?

Yes, though there is a trade-off worth knowing first. Industry guidance from the National Security Screen Association is that cutting a pet door into a security door voids its compliance, because the door is no longer the product that was tested. Plenty of people still choose it. Talk to us about where the pet door goes, and ask about pet mesh if you have animals.

Are your security doors made to measure?

Yes. Every door and screen is made to measure rather than bought off the shelf, and it is manufactured here in Cairns. SCREENGUARD aluminium frames use T6 grade high tensile extruded aluminium, manufactured and finished in Queensland in a range of colours. Get in touch to arrange a measure for your doors or windows.

Which Cairns suburbs do you service?

We service Cairns and the surrounding areas. That covers the northern beaches from Machans Beach up to Palm Cove, the northern suburbs around Smithfield, Redlynch and Freshwater, the Cairns city suburbs, and the southside through to Gordonvale. Check our service areas page for the full list of suburbs, or call us to confirm your street.

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Need security doors in Clifton Beach?

A door ordered this year gets opened several times a day for the next twenty, so take three questions to the measure rather than assuming the answers. What handle types the system can take. How the door can be released from the inside, using the Queensland Fire Department's wording as the checklist. And whether the locks across the house can be worked off one common key. Put the same three to anyone else quoting. If the door is already there and has started to stick, jam or drag, that is usually hardware rather than the door itself, and it is replaced onsite. Call or use the quote form to arrange a measure for your Clifton Beach house or unit.

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