Thinking of using crimsafe for windows and doors. Has anyone had experience on it? How do you clean the windows after installation? looking for reviews on crimsafe and suggestions please.
Thank you
Has Anyone Used Crimsafe for Their Homes and What Do You Think about It? and Vs Alternative Like Steel Bars?
webber23 on 19/09/2025 - 20:58
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I have Crimsafe on my doors and windows and they really do interrupt the flow of air.
How do you clean the windows after installation?
I use a Gerni pressure washer with a snow foam cannon around the house when I'm cleaning up. I just use a watery solution of detergent so it goes through the mesh, let it sit for a while then rinse off. Probably better ways of doing it but works for me. Just make sure someone is inside with a few old towels to mop up any water that might get through the window.
Thanks.
The salesperson told us that the window wouldn't get dirty usually because dusts can't go in easily. Is this true based on your experience?@webber23: Your salesperson is full of sh#t anything smaller than the mesh size will get through. What happens when it rains and all that dissolved dust/pollen/salt/etc dries on your windows .. just like your car windows.
Was have some of these on our windows, but I can't remember if we had Crimsafe or another brand installed. We've also had them installed on a previous house. While the flow of air might be reduced, we didn't think this was bad enough to be a practical problem.
With regards to cleaning… we are more concerned about the ability to get out through that window in the event of a fire, so the security screens are hinged and have an emergency push-out release. You can get out, but you can't get in. To clean the window, just hinge the screen outwards, hold it there, and clean the window.
We have crimsafe on 2 big windows that face into a pool are, council made us 18 years ago, screwed in so can't take them out ;) also on front doors. Don't have a issue with air flow never even thought about till few comments on here lol, windows still get dirty.
Easy to clean with a wet rag. I take the window slider out to clean. Should have done the whole house have had to replace some of the others from holes/tears etc, not the crime safe.
Also look better and better to look through v the diamond security screens.
If it's not Crimsafe it's not crim safe.
We replaced a security screen door of steel bar construction with a Crimsafe aluminium door.
The steel door was rusting out and had been removed, sand blasted and re-powder coated, but rusted again. We are located in a coastal area, so the aluminium Crimsafe replacement was a no-brainer. The steel security door lasted 10 years in total. The replacement is 15 years old and still looks like new.
I wash it down with a pressure washer occasionally. In between, a wipe down with a dampened micro-fibre seems to clean it.
We have crimsafe (equivalent) on all our doors and windows and only did so so that our indoor cats do not scratch the fly mesh and run outside :D
Putting steels bars imo is ugly and I am sure someone in our neighbourhood will complain and dob us into council for ugly home additions. Yes, our neighbourhood is like that - damn greenies / anti-development.
And for cleaning, we wipe it down from time to time as we can access our screens and window - and on the rare occasion (think once in 8 years, we hosed it down lol)
Had Crimsafe previously and installing again on front facing sliders. It's what you put in when you want uninterrupted one way visibility.
Cleaning Crimsafe is a pita and requires ether high pressure soap or scrubbing. Did both. Biggest downside
Our doors though in the new place are getting old skool wrought iron screens. If some knob wants to have a crack at those, good luck 👍
We had a screen door with some crimsafe equivalent. No issues with it.
Not sure paying extra for the crimsafe would have been worth it. It wasnt really to stop breakins, more to allow us to have the front door open and keep bugs out while home.
If you are in a coastal area, avoid Crimsafe as it uses 304 rather than 316 (Marine Grade) stainless steel mesh.
I have used both Crimsafe & Prowler Proof. It is great from a security perspective, but terrible from a breeze blocking perspective.
Compared to the old school diamond security screens with fly screen though, it is much simpler to clean - you just hose it once in a blue moon and you are done. The diamond security screen though are far better in terms of letting a breeze in.
In our place, we went crimsafe on the street facing windows and doors, but the windows not visible from the street just have conventional fly-screens. If a burglar wants to get in to your property, they will get in. So the crimsafe is more a visual deterrent.
Ideally, to let a breeze travel through our house, I would have the front door use a decorative metal-bar style+mesh security screen door - and not crimsafe!