There’s an assumption built into most home improvement purchases: you can have it fast, or you can have it done properly, but not both. Custom made, in particular, tends to mean “wait.” We don’t think that trade-off should exist for something as important as securing your home, and we’ve built our business so it doesn’t. Prowler Proof delivers Quality Without the Wait: Fast
Why speed actually matters here
Security screens aren’t a lifestyle upgrade you can put off — for a lot of our customers, they’re a response to something that’s already happened. Queensland Police’s own advice on home security is direct: fit security screen doors built and installed to Australian Standards, and if locks have been compromised, “have the locks replaced or keyless security reprogrammed immediately — offenders may return after the initial break-in.”
That last point matters more than people realise. The Australian Institute of Criminology’s research on burglary prevention found that around one in four burgled households are burgled again within a year, and concluded that “an upgrading of security in the immediate aftermath of a burglary can reduce the likelihood of repeat victimisation.” In plain terms: the weeks right after a break-in are when a home is most exposed, which is exactly when you don’t want to be told your new screens are three months away.
How we keep lead times short without cutting corners
Every Prowler Proof security screen and door is custom made to fit your exact opening — but “custom made” doesn’t have to mean “slow.” We manufacture everything in our own automated factory in Banyo, Queensland, rather than importing stock from overseas. That’s the difference: once you’ve given your local dealer the go-ahead and paid your deposit, you’re typically looking at around two weeks to installation, not months. Being made locally is what makes that timeline possible — it’s not a shortcut, it’s the point of manufacturing here in the first place.
Same standard, every single time
The part we won’t move on, even to go faster, is what actually goes into the screen. Every Prowler Proof product is tested to the Australian Standard AS 5039 using the exact components we build with — the welded corners, the mesh, the frame extrusions. We don’t substitute a cheaper mesh or a different fixing system to hit a price point or shave time off a build. What passed testing is what turns up at your door, every time, whether you’re the first customer of the week or the five-hundredth. And we’re independently audited by the National Security Screen Association, to ensure we can back up this claim
Our dealers work the same way. They’re not incentivised to push you toward a slower, cheaper alternative, because there isn’t one in our range — just the one standard, built and installed properly, as quickly as our local factory allows.
If something’s prompted you to look into security screens, waiting for them shouldn’t be the hard part. Get quality without the wait.