About Safehaus

Melbourne home security and rental compliance. One person, published prices.

Safehaus fits home security hardware across metro Melbourne, and carries out independent rental compliance assessments for Victorian landlords and property managers.

I’m Keith. I look after more than 50 residential properties around Melbourne — my own, my family’s, and other landlords’ — I spent my career in audit, and I attend every job myself. Prices are published, quotes are in writing before anything starts, and you deal with me from the first call to the final invoice.

Keith, owner-operator of Safehaus
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50+Residential properties looked after — my own, my family’s and other landlords’
1Person on every job — no rotating crews, no salesmen
12 mthWorkmanship warranty on all installation work
InsuredPublic liability, plus professional indemnity on compliance work

Two services, priced separately

Different customers, different jobs. Here’s what each one is.

Security screen door fitted to a residential front entrance
For homeowners

Home security hardware

Practical hardware, measured and fitted properly, at prices published before I arrive.

  • Door, window, gate and garage hardware
  • Security screen doors, window screens and grilles
  • Fence extensions and anti-climb deterrents
  • Mail boxes, parcel boxes and meter box locks
  • Steel tool sheds, supplied and installed
Keyed lock fitted to a residential entry door
For landlords & agents

Rental compliance assessments

An independent check against Victoria’s rental minimum standards, written up as a photo-documented PDF report for your property file.

  • All 14 Victorian rental minimum standards
  • Plus blind-cord safety and smoke alarm testing
  • Photographed findings, delivered as a written report
  • A dated plan for the 2027 and 2030 standards
  • Portfolio rates for multiple properties

Why one person does both

The honest version, in about ninety seconds.

Both services started at my own places. When break-ins picked up around our streets I went through my own doors, gates and windows properly, worked out which hardware actually does something, and fitted it. Neighbours asked if I’d do theirs, and it went from there.

The compliance side started the same way. Victoria’s rental standards changed, so I went through the properties I look after one at a time and worked out exactly what each standard means in practice — what it costs, how long it takes, and which items are worth doing early. That method became the report.

Audit was the day job for years, and it turns out to be the same discipline: check the thing carefully, and write down what you found in a way that still holds up months later, when a property manager or an insurer asks for the evidence.

Everything is priced in the open because I got tired of being on the other side of it — the quote that arrives after the tradesman has already looked around, and the report that finds problems but never tells you what fixing them costs.

Recent work

Genuine photographs of Safehaus jobs. Nothing generated, nothing retouched.

Security fly screen front door fitted by Safehaus
Security screen front door, measured and fitted.
Side gate with a keyed latch fitted by Safehaus
Side gate hardware — keyed latch and drop bolt.
Lockable mailbox and parcel box fitted by Safehaus
Lockable mail and parcel box, replacing an open letterbox.

Four things I’ll always do

True of every job, both services.

1
Price in writing first. You’ll have the figure before anything starts, and it won’t change on site unless you ask for something else.
2
Tell you when you don’t need it. If a job isn’t worth your money, or you could do it yourself in ten minutes, I’ll say so.
3
Hand over to a licensed trade when it’s their job. I’ll say so and introduce you to one, and they’ll quote and invoice you directly.
4
Take no commissions. No referral fees or rebates from any trade or supplier, so nothing I find depends on you buying anything from me.

Where Safehaus stops

Set out up front, so nothing surprises you later.

Certificates come from licensed trades. Gas, electrical and smoke alarm certificates are issued by the people who perform those checks. I identify what’s needed and can help you arrange it.
Regulated work goes to specialists. Electrical, gas, plumbing and locksmithing is carried out by appropriately licensed providers, dealing with you directly.
A report isn’t a building or pest inspection, and it isn’t legal advice. It covers the rental minimum standards, at the date of inspection.
Compliance stays your responsibility. The report gives you the evidence and the plan — the legal obligation remains the rental provider’s.

Talk to a person

Call, text or email — it comes straight to me.

Phone or text0451 177 610
Office

Suite 656, 44 Lakeview Drive,
Scoresby VIC 3179

Service area

Metro Melbourne and
surrounding suburbs