Home security · Melbourne metro
Make your home the one they walk past. Security doors, locks, gates and lighting — fitted, from $195.
The back door that never felt right. The side gate anyone could open. Book a free Doorstep Security Check — fifteen minutes, we measure it, price it in writing, and you decide from there.
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- No call-out fee
- Fixed price in writing
- 12-month warranty
Prefer to talk? Call or text Keith on 0451 177 610
Five ways in. We close all five.
Meter box, garage, front door, windows, side gate. On most Melbourne homes at least two of the five aren’t doing much — and those two decide whether someone stops at your place or keeps walking.
Sources: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria (2025) · Australian Institute of Criminology · Tseloni et al., Security Journal (2017, UK data).
The back door. The side gate. The windows nobody checks.
That’s where the numbers point, and it’s where we work — not subscriptions, apps or another thing to charge overnight. A gate that locks. A door that can’t be forced. A fence that isn’t a step up. We close the easy way in, so it stops being easy.
Open for air. Closed to strangers.
Doors and windows are the two easiest ways in. We fit locks and bolts that let the air in and keep people out — sliding doors, windows, and the door from the garage.
Keep the breeze. Lose the worry.
A flyscreen stops flies, not people. A security screen locks like a gate, so you can leave the door open on a warm night and still sleep. Plain fly screens too. Measured on the visit, made to order, 14 colours.
Nobody slips down the side.
The quietest way to your back door, out of sight of the street. Keyed latches, drop bolts or keyless code locks — so nobody wanders down unnoticed.
Not worth the climb.
A low fence is an invitation. We raise it with timber toppers matched to your fence, or top it with anti-climb deterrents — colour-matched, signed, and fitted at safe heights.
Nowhere dark to stand.
Nothing sends someone off faster than being lit up. Sensor floodlights over dark paths, driveways and blind spots, fitted by a licensed electrician.
Your tools stop being their tools.
Tools and ladders left out get stolen — or used to get in. Heavy-duty steel sheds, sized for side paths and backyards.
Your identity, off the street.
Your mailbox holds your identity. A lockable mail and parcel box keeps new cards, bank letters and deliveries off the street.
Now somebody’s watching: you.
Most break-ins happen when nobody’s watching. Our Dahua kit — two wired cameras and a recorder with 2 TB of storage — installed by our licensed partner installer. And we’ll tell you straight if cameras won’t help.
The switch they can’t flick.
One flick of the main switch kills your alarm, cameras and lights — and most meter boxes aren’t locked. We fit a VPI lock, so only you and your power company get in.
Your car stops being the easy one.
Keyless and OBD-port car theft is rife across Melbourne. While we’re in your driveway, we fit the deterrents that stop it.
For what no insurer can replace.
Passports, deeds, jewellery, backup drives. A fireproof safe, delivered where you want it, keeps what you can’t replace safe from burglars and fire.
They cut the power. The cameras keep recording.
Pull the main switch and most set-ups go dark. A battery backup keeps your cameras recording and your alarm online — and we’ll tell you the real runtime before you buy.
Offenders pick the easiest door on the street.
Most break-ins aren’t sophisticated — they’re opportunistic. Which is why the unglamorous hardware matters more than the gadgets.
Would a burglar pick your house?
Get your score →They walk the street first
Most residential break-ins are opportunistic, not planned. Offenders look for the house that’s easiest to get into and hardest to be seen at — which means the fence, the gate and the side path decide whether they stop at yours.
They go around the back
Nearly twice as many entries are made from the rear or back of a property as from the front — 14.8% against 8.4%. The side gate is the route nobody watches, and on most Melbourne homes it isn’t locked at all.
The door is the way in
Doors are 41% of all entry points, windows another 17%. Forcing or breaking a door is the single most common method recorded — 23.6% — nearly double the share who find one already open.
Keys are what they’re after
Offenders now break in specifically to take car keys, then drive the car out of the garage — a pattern Victoria Police has warned about publicly. 31,851 cars were stolen in Victoria in a year, the most since 2001–02. The lock on your back door is what stops the car in your driveway leaving with them.
The answer isn’t gadgets
It’s the unglamorous hardware, fitted properly — a gate that locks, a door that can’t be forced, a fence that isn’t a step. And if your place is already solid, we’ll say so and shake your hand.
Sources: Crime Statistics Agency Victoria and Victoria Police, year ending March 2026 · Crime Stoppers Victoria, March 2025.
I’m Keith. I’ll be the one who turns up.
I renovate and look after residential property across Melbourne — my own and my family’s — so I’ve spent years at the unglamorous end of it: the doors that never sat right, the locks fitted badly the first time, the side gate everyone forgot about. Before that I was an auditor, paid to find the weak points everyone else had already signed off on. It’s a habit that doesn’t switch off, and it’s why every price here is measured, itemised and put in writing before anything happens.
What I kept seeing was people being sold alarms and cameras while the simple physical gaps stayed wide open. A monitored system doesn’t help if the side gate still opens with a shove. So Safehaus does the boring half properly, and never sells more of it than a house actually needs.
“If your place is already solid, I’ll tell you that — and shake your hand.”
Recent jobs, in the owners' words.
A few of the homes we've made harder to break into across Melbourne — with photos of the actual work.
Safehaus installed security/possum fence deterrents at our property. Good communication, neat work, and the place feels more secure.
We bought a security flyscreen for our laundry window and an anti-theft pack on the car — great to finally have them sorted and feel a bit safer.
Reasonable price. We had security cameras installed by a technician, also a new security door was fitted promptly and neatly. Will use this service again. Thank you.
The point isn’t the lock. It’s not thinking about it.
Most people don’t want hardware. They want the back door to stop being a thought at 11pm, and the side gate to stop being the thing they keep meaning to sort. The reason it stays on the list is usually that sorting it properly means finding four different trades. So we’ve already found them.
The worst part isn’t the cost. It’s not knowing the cost.
So we publish it. Parts, fitting and a 12-month warranty, in the price you see — and the more we do in one visit, the cheaper each item gets. If a job isn’t worth your money, we’ll say so.
Three steps, and it’s off your list.
You book — it takes a minute
Pick a time online, or text Keith. Tell us your suburb and what’s been on your mind: the door, the garage, the side gate, the lot.
We come out and price it
Fifteen minutes at your place, no cost and no obligation. You get the options in plain English and one itemised quote in writing before we drive off.
The work gets done
Say yes and most hardware goes on the same visit or the next one. Made-to-measure items — sheds, fencing and the like — are ordered in and fitted on a day that suits you.
Get it measured and quoted — free.
Fifteen minutes at your door. We check that what you’ve already got is doing its job — locks, latches, hinges, tracks — price anything you’d like added, and tell you what you don’t need.
★★★★★ “Good communication, neat work, and the place feels more secure.” Anthony T. · Dandenong North
Your free 15-minute Doorstep Security Check
Keith comes to you, measures anything you’d like priced, and leaves you with an itemised quote in writing. Nothing is ordered, booked or fitted unless you say so.
Booked right across Melbourne metro — often by adult children for their parents’ place, or by owners about to head away.
Free Doorstep Security Check →- A fixed price on everything you asked about — itemised, in writing, before we leave the driveway.
- Good and better, both priced — you pick the level, not us.
- The honest no — if a job isn’t worth your money, or you could do it yourself, we’ll say so.
- Yours to sit on — no pressure, no fake urgency, no follow-up calls.
Before you book.
Is the Doorstep Security Check really free?
Yes — no call-out fee and no obligation. We measure and quote; if you’d like the work done, we book it in. If not, the quote is yours to keep.
What do I actually get from the visit?
An itemised, fixed-price quote for everything you asked about, with prices that match our published list — in writing before we leave. We’ll also give you a straight opinion on what’s worth doing first and what isn’t worth your money at all. Yours to sit on, compare or act on.
How long does it take, and do I need to be home?
About 15 minutes. It helps if you’re home so we can measure gates, the garage and anything else you’d like priced, but much of the measuring can be done from outside. Tell us your situation when you book and we’ll work around it.
If I decide to do some work, what will it cost?
Every quoted item is priced up front — single fixes from $195 fitted, bundles from $395 — so there are no surprises, and you’re never obligated to go ahead. If a job’s simple enough to DIY, we’ll say so. Standard work is paid on completion; made-to-order items are confirmed with a 50% deposit, balance when the job’s done.
Can I lock my electricity meter box in Victoria?
Yes — with the right lock. Victoria's five electricity distributors approve Victorian Power Industry (VPI) keyed locks: they open with your key and the distributor's master key, so meter readers and authorised crews are never locked out. An ordinary padlock isn't suitable — utilities can't open it. It matters more than it sounds: an unlocked meter box lets anyone cut power to your alarm, cameras and lights from outside the house. We supply and install the VPI-keyed clasp and access cylinder — quoted on the visit. On homes built before 1990 we don’t drill the meter board backing panel, as older panels can contain asbestos; we’ll tell you on the day if yours is one of them.
Who’s coming into my home — can I trust them?
Every visit is done by Keith personally — holding a current National Police Check, Public Liability insured, and local. You deal with the owner from the first call to the final invoice: no rotating crew, no commissioned salesman, and never any pressure on the day. Where specialist work is needed we’ll introduce you to a licensed trade, and Keith stays your point of contact throughout.
Do you do the work yourselves?
Most of it, yes. Safehaus does the fencing, the fence toppers and anti-climb work, and all the surface-fixed hardware — patio bolts, window locks, gate hardware, garage and vehicle deterrents, mailboxes and meter box locks. Sheds and anything else made to order are measured on the visit and installed on a booked return date. Regulated work goes to licensed trades — locksmiths for deadbolts and keyed cylinders, licensed electricians for hardwired lighting, landscapers for defensive planting. They contract and invoice you directly for their part, and Keith stays your point of contact throughout.
Can I book it for my parents, a rental, or while I’m away?
Yes. Plenty of our Doorstep Security Checks are booked by adult children for elderly parents, by landlords for rentals, or by people heading off on holiday. Give us the address and who to coordinate with — and please make sure the owner or occupier knows we’re coming. For parents’ homes we can also fit a key safe, so family or carers can always get in.
Is the work guaranteed?
Yes. Safehaus warrants its own workmanship for 12 months from completion — if something we’ve installed isn’t right, email hello@safehaus.com.au and we’ll assess it and put it right where covered. Manufacturer warranties on supplied products are passed on to you with the paperwork. This warranty is in addition to your rights under the Australian Consumer Law, which cannot be excluded. Full terms are on our Terms of Service page.
Which suburbs do you cover?
Melbourne metro and the surrounding suburbs. Don't see yours? Send it when you enquire and we'll confirm.
Eastern suburbs: Camberwell, Hawthorn, Kew, Balwyn, Balwyn North, Canterbury, Surrey Hills, Mont Albert, Box Hill, Blackburn, Nunawading, Mitcham, Vermont, Vermont South, Forest Hill, Doncaster, Doncaster East, Templestowe, Bulleen, Donvale, Warrandyte, Ringwood, Ringwood East, Croydon, Heathmont, Bayswater, Bayswater North, Boronia, Wantirna, Wantirna South, Ferntree Gully, Rowville, Scoresby, Knoxfield, Lysterfield, Mount Waverley, Glen Waverley, Wheelers Hill, Mulgrave, Clayton, Notting Hill, Oakleigh, Burwood, Burwood East, Ashwood, Chadstone, Lilydale, Mooroolbark, Chirnside Park, Montrose, Kilsyth.
South-eastern suburbs: Caulfield, Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Hughesdale, Bentleigh, Bentleigh East, Ormond, McKinnon, Elsternwick, Glen Huntly, Malvern, Malvern East, Glen Iris, Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Beaumaris, Black Rock, Cheltenham, Highett, Moorabbin, Mentone, Parkdale, Mordialloc, Aspendale, Edithvale, Chelsea, Carrum, Clarinda, Clayton South, Springvale, Springvale South, Noble Park, Dandenong, Dandenong North, Keysborough, Hallam, Hampton Park, Endeavour Hills, Narre Warren, Narre Warren South, Berwick, Beaconsfield, Officer, Pakenham, Cranbourne, Clyde, Clyde North, Lynbrook, Lyndhurst, Frankston, Frankston South, Seaford, Carrum Downs, Langwarrin, Skye.
Northern suburbs: Preston, Reservoir, Coburg, Brunswick, Pascoe Vale, Essendon, Bundoora, Mill Park, Epping, Greensborough, Eltham.
Western suburbs: Footscray, Yarraville, Sunshine, St Albans, Caroline Springs, Altona, Point Cook, Hoppers Crossing, Werribee, Tarneit.
Travel: included within 25 km of Scoresby. Further out, a $45 travel charge applies, shown on your quote.
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Make yours the home they walk past.
Fifteen minutes at your door, no cost and no pressure — and the easy way in stops being easy.
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