Dinner Outside, Without The Mosquitoes
Phantom Executive motorised screens that close in a whole alfresco or patio, up to 12 metres in one span, then roll out of sight. Measured, supplied and fitted across Brisbane and the Gold Coast by an authorised Phantom dealer.
Why Lusso, Brisbane & Gold Coast
Close In The Alfresco, Keep The Breeze
If the problem with your alfresco is the afternoon sun or rain coming in sideways, you want an outdoor blind, and we fit those too. If the problem is that nobody can sit out there after six without being bitten, you want a screen. The Phantom Executive is built for that: a motorised insect screen up to 12 metres wide in one span, held in side channels so nothing gets in around the edges, that rolls into its housing when you want the open air back.
The range
Local conditions
Seal The Edges, Not Just The Middle
Brisbane City Council manages more than 20,000 hectares of saltmarsh mosquito breeding ground, and its own fact sheet says the saltmarsh mosquito travels at least 10 kilometres to feed. A house a few streets back from the water is closer than it feels. In warm weather an egg becomes a biting adult in five to six days, and a big high tide or heavy rain can set off a mass hatch. That’s why some summer weeks the alfresco just doesn’t get used.
It’s a health question as well as a comfort one. Ross River virus is spread by mosquitoes, there’s no vaccine for it, and healthdirect’s prevention advice includes flyscreens on windows, doors, vents and other entrances. An alfresco is the biggest entrance most houses have.
The council’s fact sheet also has the detail that matters most for a screen: a gap the size of a matchstick head is enough to let mosquitoes into a rainwater tank. A loose mesh panel, or a blind with a gap down each side, leaves far more than that. The Executive’s mesh is zipped into captured side channels, with a brush seal along the bottom bar, so the edges are closed as well as the face.
That’s also why I’d put the standard 18×14 insect mesh on most alfresco areas here, not the finer midge mesh. It keeps mosquitoes out at about 58 per cent open, against about 48 per cent for midge mesh, and that ten points is the breeze you built the outdoor room for. Canal and bayside homes are the exception, and the midge mesh guide covers who needs it.
Even the council’s fact sheet concedes that getting rid of mosquitoes is impossible, so the screen is the part you get to control.
The detail that matters
Three Things To Settle Before The Measure
Every screen looks tidy the day it goes in. These three decide whether you’re still using it in the third summer, and the honest answer to the first is sometimes a different product.
A screen is mesh first: it keeps insects out and lets the breeze in, and the solar meshes take some of the glare as well. An outdoor blind is shade and weather first. If your alfresco is fine at night and unbearable at three in the afternoon, you want a blind, and the alfresco blinds comparison goes through the three types we fit. If it’s the other way round, you want a screen.
The Executive runs up to 12 metres in a single screen, with the drop depending on the fabric, so a long alfresco doesn’t need a post or a join in the middle of the view. Under about 4 metres, used now and then, a manual ZipScreen usually does the job for less. We sell both, so I’ll tell you which one your opening needs.
Every Executive sold in Australia is motorised and hardwired, so it needs power at the housing. On a new build or a renovation that’s a cable and a switch at framing stage, and the housing can be recessed into the beam so nothing shows. On an existing alfresco we work out the cable route at the measure. Housing sizes and recess options are in the Phantom Executive guide.
Brisbane & Gold Coast clients
Fitted Properly, And Followed Up
A screen is only as good as its installation and the person you call when it needs adjusting. These three clients are talking about the parts that happen after the quote.
We could not have been happier with the service we received from Deb & Lusso. She was incredibly helpful, knowledgeable and gave us clear direction. They followed through on absolutely everything discussed and the installation went off without a hitch.
Tony Duncombe
I would highly recommend lusso for all your window covering requirements. They are a truly professional group providing great customer service together with expert installers you can't go wrong
Liz Saunders
Nothing was too much trouble for Deb when I needed to fix a problem.
Di Dixon
Where they go
What I Would Actually Specify
Standard insect mesh on an Executive sized to the full opening, recessed into the beam if the ceiling is still open. It keeps the mosquitoes out and costs you almost nothing in breeze or view.
QuoteA solar mesh instead of insect mesh, so one screen handles the afternoon glare as well as the bugs. Add a sun sensor and it lowers itself when the sun comes round.
QuoteMidge mesh. It’s finer than the standard weave and costs some airflow, and next to mangroves that trade is worth making.
QuotePet-resistant mesh, which stands up to claws better than the standard weave. Worth it if the dog thinks the alfresco is part of the house.
QuoteNot this product. The Executive is for big openings, and a fly screen for one door is a different screen that we don’t fit. I’d rather say so now than measure it.
QuoteHow it works
Three steps, quote in 48 hours
We come to you anywhere from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. Detailed quote within 24 to 48 hours, valid for 30 days — no deposit to get a price.
We need the dimensions and the aspect of the opening before we can quote.
Itemised component by component, and valid for 30 days.
Nothing starts until you are comfortable with the selections.
Where we work
Brisbane To The Gold Coast
From Byron Bay to Brisbane, across the whole Gold Coast and inland to the hinterland. If you're anywhere on that stretch, we'll come to you.
Before you ask
It depends on the width and drop, the housing size, the mesh, whether the housing is recessed or surface-mounted, any sun or wind sensors, and the electrical work, so we don’t quote a figure before measuring. The measure and quote are free, and the quote is itemised so you can see what each of those adds.
A screen if the problem is insects, a blind if it is sun and weather. The solar meshes on the Executive do some of both. We fit both, so we’ll tell you at the measure which one your alfresco needs.
Yes. Standard 18×14 insect mesh keeps mosquitoes out, and the zippered side channels and brush-sealed bottom bar close the edges. Near canals, mangroves or the bay, where biting midges are the problem, we specify Phantom’s finer midge mesh.
In a breeze, yes, because the side channels hold the mesh taut. In strong wind keep it fully down or fully up, never half-way, and retract it in severe weather. A wind sensor can raise it automatically. Mesh lets rain through; clear PVC keeps it out.
Yes. Every Phantom Executive sold in Australia is motorised and hardwired, so a licensed electrician runs power to the housing. It is operated by remote, wall switch or both.
Up to 12 metres in a single screen, with the drop depending on the fabric. The final limits for your opening are confirmed at the measure.
Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Tweed Coast and Byron Bay. We come to you anywhere in that corridor.
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Free measure & quote, Gold Coast wide
Tell us which rooms and we'll come to you with the fabric range, measure properly, and tell you honestly which windows need side tracks and which don't.
