Keep The Evening, Lose The Midges
Phantom Executive retractable screens for Gold Coast patios, alfresco areas and balconies — measured, supplied and fitted by an authorised Phantom dealer and a family business trading since 1978.
Why Lusso, Gold Coast
One Screen Across The Whole Opening
Most retractable screens on the Gold Coast are sold for doors and windows, and 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 alfresco, patio or balcony, up to 12 metres wide in a single span, then disappears into its housing when you don’t want it.
The range
Local conditions
Order It Before Spring
Biting midges — the sandflies everyone on a canal knows about — are a big enough Gold Coast problem that Griffith University researchers have studied the species living in our canal estates. They are small enough to get through a standard fly screen, as WA Health puts it plainly, which is why we specify Phantom’s finer midge mesh on canal, river and mangrove-front homes.
The timing is the part people miss. In south-east Queensland, midges are most active from September to April, close to mangroves, canals and estuaries. That is exactly the stretch of the year you want to eat outside. A screen ordered after the first bad evening in October arrives some way into the season it was meant for.
Then there’s the sea breeze. An Executive should be fully down or fully up when the wind gets up — half-down is the position it likes least. A wind sensor will raise it for you, which matters most on a high balcony or a house you leave for the weekend.
None of this makes the mesh in the brochure the wrong choice. It just means the right one depends on which side of the street you live on.
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.
The Executive runs up to 12 metres in a single screen, with the drop depending on the fabric. That means no post or join in the middle of the view on a wide alfresco. 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 canals and mangroves. Solar meshes trade some airflow for shade on a west-facing patio. The Phantom Executive guide goes through every one, with Phantom’s openness figures.
Recessed into a beam or soffit, the housing disappears completely. That’s far easier to plan before the ceiling is lined than after. Every Executive in Australia is motorised and hardwired, so the electrician needs to know too. If you’re building or renovating, talk to us at framing stage.
Gold Coast clients
Still There When The Weather Turns
An outdoor screen is judged after its first storm season, by who answers the phone. These are clients who found out.
Jye and the team from Lusso were fantastic to deal with from our first meeting with them there knowledge of their products and expertise in understanding our needs for our new appartment was outstanding and would highly recommend them
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
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.
Trevor Tranter
Where they go
What I Would Actually Specify
Midge mesh on an Executive sized to the full opening, recessed into the beam if the ceiling allows. This is the job the product was built for.
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.
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.
QuotePet-resistant mesh. Standard insect mesh isn’t made for a dog that wants to be on the other side of it.
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 on 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
Coolangatta To Hope Island
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 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.
With the right mesh, yes. Biting midges get through a standard fly screen, so on canal, river and mangrove-front homes we specify 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.
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.
No. We fit the Phantom Executive for 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.
All of it, from Coolangatta to Hope Island, as part of a service area that runs from Byron Bay to Brisbane.
Get in touch
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.
