Daylight Steel vs. Boss Security Screens

The usual disclosure: this is our website, so check our work. But Boss is one of the few names in this industry we can compare with numbers, because Boss actually publishes some. Everything below about Boss comes from its own pages, re-read and re-verified as of August 2026, sources named.

Who is Boss Security Screens?

Boss Security Screens is a Las Vegas-headquartered company that manufactures and installs its own line of stainless-mesh window screens, hinged doors, French doors, sliders, and pet doors. It holds an A+ BBB rating and has been BBB accredited since 2018. Its site lists service across 17 metros, from Las Vegas and Phoenix to Atlanta and Detroit, and the company says it has completed more than 17,000 installations without a single screen defeated. Orange County is served through a satellite operation at 18000 Studebaker Rd in Cerritos, just across the county line in Los Angeles County.

All of that is to Boss's credit - it is the profile of a successful regional manufacturer expanding into Southern California. It just means the question for an Orange County homeowner is less "is Boss legitimate" (clearly yes) and more "what exactly am I comparing."

How do the two compare at a glance?

How much do Boss security screens cost?

Boss publishes starting prices, and they are not identical everywhere Boss publishes them. As of August 2026, when we re-read all three surfaces, the national pricing page lists window screens at $1,800 to $2,500, security screen doors at $2,500 to $3,500, French doors at $4,500 to $6,500, and patio sliding door screens starting with $5,800 and depending on the number of panels. The Orange County site is lower on three of the four: windows from $1,000, doors from $2,500, French doors from $4,000, and patio sliders from $4,500, also by panel count, with the page stating plainly that "the above pricing is just an approximation" and that larger openings cost more. Boss's separate national cost guide tells a third story: $2,350 to $2,650 for a standard security screen door, $4,800 to $5,500 for a French door screen, and $4,500 to $5,000 for a two-panel slider.

Read those against each other and you notice the cost guide's door range dips below the pricing page's $2,500 floor, while its French door range starts $300 above the pricing page's $4,500 teaser. Not a scandal - just what starting-at pricing does. It hands you the most optimistic number and lets the in-home visit find your real one.

We took the other route entirely: no floors, no tops, one flat installed price per product on our pricing page - hinged doors $2,475, sliding doors $2,675, French pairs $4,475, and window screens from $825, priced by glass size with the formula public. Two comparisons worth making: our flat hinged price of $2,475 sits below Boss's $2,500 starting point - the number they begin at is more than the number we finish at. And the patio slider gap is wider still: as of August 2026 Boss starts sliders at $4,500 on its Orange County page and $5,800 on its national one, against our flat $2,675 for a standard two-panel opening, a difference worth asking both companies about. The real difference is whether you ever learn the top of the range at all. Our cost guide explains how flat pricing works, and the Orange County price report puts Boss's published figures in a table alongside every other price we could source.

What mesh does each company use?

Both companies install woven stainless steel mesh, which puts both in the serious tier of this category - our Crimsafe and Titan comparisons cover how woven systems differ from grille-style doors. Boss publishes a 12x12 weave per square inch of 0.035 inch stainless wire, says its mesh is 100% American-made, and claims on its homepage to be the only company weaving that 12x12 mesh in the USA.

On the alloy, Boss's own pages read differently in different places. Its cost guide specifies 304 stainless steel mesh, while its product pages describe the wire as marine grade, and a mesh-selection guide on its blog quotes the company saying it uses "marine-grade mesh" while recommending 316 as the grade to insist on, without naming the alloy in Boss's own product. As of July 2026 we could not find one definitive alloy spec on Boss's site, and those pages point in different directions. Every Daylight Steel security screen door and window screen uses 316 marine-grade stainless mesh, knife-shear tested to AS 5041-2003 and salt-spray tested to ASTM B117, with no lower-grade tier in the line. The distinction matters most within smelling distance of the ocean - 316 carries the molybdenum that resists salt-air pitting, and our grades guide explains why. Whichever company you shortlist, ask for the alloy in writing on the quote. A vendor selling 316 will happily oblige. Worth knowing before you compare Boss against an Australian-specified brand: the 0.035 inch wire Boss publishes is 0.889 mm, the same diameter Crimsafe publishes as 0.9 mm, which our table of security screen mesh by brand sets out in both units.

Where Boss is genuinely strong

The No Break-In Guarantee is the standout. Per Boss's published terms, if one of its screens is defeated and an entry occurs, Boss covers the homeowner's theft deductible, up to $3,000 per its pricing page, and replaces the screen at no charge - and Boss reports zero break-ins across more than 17,000 installs. That is a confident, well-designed promise, and we tip our hat.

The 15-year parts and labor warranty is longer than ours on paper and transfers to a new homeowner, per Boss's pricing page. Our coverage is a 10-year manufacturer powder-coat warranty on mesh and panels plus 1 year on hardware, with our own crew standing behind the installation. If maximum warranty years is your deciding criterion, Boss wins that line, and we would rather say so than have you discover it. Add US manufacturing and the simple act of publishing prices at all - genuinely uncommon in this industry - and Boss has earned its shortlist spot.

Is Boss local to Orange County?

Boss's OC work runs from Cerritos, in Los Angeles County, as a satellite of the Las Vegas operation. Its review history is likewise concentrated at headquarters: the Las Vegas Yelp listing showed 166 reviews as of June 2026, while the Cerritos location's local footprint remains thin as of July 2026. Daylight Steel is the mirror image. We are OC only - our own employees measure and install, no subcontractors, Seal Beach to San Clemente - and we are new, founded 2026, with a young review history of our own. So this row is honestly a wash of opposites: Boss brings a long out-of-market record and a newer local crew; we bring an OC-only crew and a newer company. Ask both outfits the same two questions: who exactly shows up at my house, and who handles a service call in year three?

How should you decide?

Get both numbers in writing and compare line by line: alloy on paper, weave, warranty terms, and who performs the install. Boss quotes at an in-home consultation; our flat prices are already published, our quote calculator takes about a minute, and the free in-home measure ends with a written itemized quote either way. If a patio slider is the project, start with our sliding security doors page for what a quote includes. However it lands, you will be choosing between two companies that showed you numbers first. That is a better industry than the one we both joined.