Screen The Verandah, Keep The Breeze
Phantom Executive retractable screens for Brisbane verandahs, patios and alfresco areas — measured, supplied and fitted by an authorised Phantom dealer and a family business trading since 1978.
Why Lusso, Brisbane
Close In The Whole Verandah
Search for retractable screens in Brisbane and nearly everything you find is a door or window screen. For a single back door, that’s the right product. We fit the Phantom Executive, which does a different job: a motorised screen that closes in a whole verandah, patio or alfresco, up to 12 metres wide in a single span, then rolls away into its housing when you want the opening back.
The range
Local conditions
Let The Wind Sensor Decide
The Bureau of Meteorology is plain about it: from October to December, southern Queensland is in the part of Australia with the highest risk of severe thunderstorms. Those are the same weeks a screened verandah earns its keep — warm evenings, mosquitoes after the rain, dinner outside. In Brisbane, the screen and the storm keep the same calendar.
An Executive is a screen, not a storm shutter. In a breeze the side channels hold the mesh taut and it can stay down. When a front comes through it should be fully up, because half-down is the position it likes least, and rolled up the mesh sits inside the housing out of the weather. A wind sensor raises it on its own, which matters most when the storm turns up at four o’clock and you’re still at work.
Down by the river and the bay there’s a second problem. Biting midges are small enough to get through a standard fly screen, as WA Health puts it plainly, so on river, creek and bayside homes we look at Phantom’s finer midge mesh. The midge mesh guide covers what it costs you in airflow.
None of this takes a meteorology degree. It takes one sensor, and not leaving the screen half-way.
The detail that matters
Three Questions Worth Asking
Every retractable screen looks tidy the day it goes in. These three decide whether you are still glad you bought it in the third summer, and the honest answer to one of them is sometimes a cheaper screen.
On a modern alfresco, the Executive’s 12-metre single span means no post or join in the middle of the view. A Queenslander verandah is different: the posts are already there, so we screen it bay by bay, one screen sized to each gap. Under about 4 metres, used now and then, a manual ZipScreen usually does the job for less, and we sell both, so I’ll tell you which one your opening needs.
Standard insect mesh keeps out flies and mosquitoes and costs you almost nothing in breeze or view. Midge mesh is finer, for the river and the bay. Solar meshes trade some airflow for shade on a patio that takes the western sun all afternoon. The Phantom Executive guide goes through every one, with Phantom’s openness figures.
Under the beam of an older verandah, the housing is surface-mounted and powder coated to suit the trim, with any Dulux colour available as a custom option. On a new build or renovation it can be recessed out of sight, which is far easier to plan before the ceiling is lined. Every Executive in Australia is motorised and hardwired, so the electrician needs to know too.
Our clients
Looked After Long After The Install
An outdoor screen is judged after its first storm season, by who comes back when something needs a look. These clients found out.
Very happy with all my Lusso blinds. We have had them 14 years and not a problem at all. When we recently had to repair our outdoor blind, they were swift and very efficient in fixing and it is working perfectly again. Would highly recommend this company for all your window covering needs.
Leanne
Best Blind Company ever. They made my blinds and gave great after service when the huge wind storms came to my place in Tweed a while back. They didn't think twice about coming to check the blinds and make sure everything…
Judith Taylor
We are very happy with our sun blinds, they are very effective in keeping sun and glare out. The installers were very professional and we would have no problems recommending Lusso blinds to anyone.
Lyell Crapper
Where they go
What I Would Actually Specify
One Executive per bay between the posts, the housings under the beam in the trim colour, and standard insect mesh. Roll them up and you have the old verandah back.
QuoteA solar mesh rather than insect mesh, so the screen takes the afternoon glare and heat as well as the bugs. Add a sun sensor and it drops itself at four o’clock.
QuoteMidge mesh, sized to the full opening, with a wind sensor so the screen goes up on its own when the weather turns and nobody’s home.
QuoteAn Executive with a wind sensor. Where a one-piece screen won’t fit in the lift, Phantom’s Exec Connect arrives in two parts and is joined on site.
QuoteNot this product. The Executive is for big openings, and a back-door fly screen 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 in Brisbane. 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
New Farm To Chelmer
From Byron Bay to Brisbane, across the river suburbs and out to the bay. 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 it is recessed or surface-mounted, any 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 each of those parts.
No. We fit the Phantom Executive for verandahs, patios, alfresco areas, balconies and other large openings. A fly screen for a single door or window is a different product we don’t supply.
No. In a breeze the side channels hold the mesh taut and it can stay down, but when a storm comes through it should be fully up, never half-way. A wind sensor raises it automatically, which is worth having in a Brisbane summer.
Yes. Because the posts are already there, we screen it bay by bay, with one Executive sized to each gap. The housing sits under the beam and is powder coated to suit the trim, with any Dulux colour available as a custom option.
With the right mesh, yes. Biting midges get through a standard fly screen, so on river, creek and bayside homes we look at Phantom’s finer midge mesh.
A Phantom Executive runs up to 12 metres wide in a single screen, with the drop depending on the fabric. The final limits are confirmed for each opening at the measure.
Yes. Every Executive sold in Australia is motorised and hardwired, operated by remote, wall switch or both, with optional sun and wind sensors.
All of it, from the inner river suburbs to the bay, as part of a service area that runs from Byron Bay to Brisbane.
Get in touch
Free measure & quote, Brisbane wide
Tell us which openings and we'll come to you with the mesh samples, measure properly, and tell you honestly which ones need an Executive and which need something simpler.
