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Door types

Security Screen Doors

A secondary door mounted outside an entry or patio door, combining a view-through mesh or bars with a lock, built to leave the main door open safely.

Where it fits

Right opening, wrong opening

Best for

  • Leaving the front door open on a cool evening
  • Adding a lockable layer without blocking the light
  • Houses that vent at night before running the AC

Not ideal for

  • Openings where the primary door already swings out
  • Doorways that serve as a room's only exit path

Before you order

Specs that matter

General code and product facts for this door type, not a quote for your house. The numbers on your job come off the label, the opening and the frame condition.

Mounting
Hinged for a swing door, track mounted for a slider
Lock
Its own lock and strike, separate from the main door
Egress
Must not obstruct a required exit path
Fit
Sized to the existing frame and threshold condition

How it works

A security screen door mounts outside your existing entry or patio door as a second layer: a frame carrying mesh, a perforated panel or a bar pattern, with its own lock. Hinged for a swinging door, track mounted for a slider. With the screen closed and locked, the main door behind it can stand open.

Where it fits an Inland Empire home

The daily temperature swing here is the whole argument for this door. Riverside afternoons are hot and Climate Zone 10 evenings are not, so opening the house at nine at night genuinely pulls the indoor temperature down before you shut the air conditioning off. A security screen door is what makes leaving the front door open at that hour a reasonable thing to do rather than a trade you have to think about.

What to watch for

Fit is most of the job. The screen has to suit the specific door and threshold it protects, and a hinged screen for an entry door and a track-mounted screen for a slider are different products, not two options on the same one. The condition of the existing frame decides how well either one can be hung.

Whatever pattern you choose has to leave the main door free to swing, and it must not obstruct a required exit path from the room behind it. That is worth checking specifically if the door is the only way out of a bedroom or a converted space.

This is a different product from our retractable screens, which are light mesh for keeping insects out of an opening. A security screen door is a lockable barrier that happens to let air through.

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