Heat Turned Back At The Window
The backing on Verosol SilverScreen is metallised, so it reflects solar radiation rather than soaking it up and re-radiating it into the room. We are a Verosol dealer. We measure at your place anywhere in Brisbane and make it up as a roller blind, a pleated blind or a curtain.
Why Lusso, Brisbane
Fit It Where The Outside Is Off Limits
Every honest shading guide says the same thing, and the Australian Government’s guidance on shading says it plainly: stop the sun before it crosses the glass. An external screen or an awning beats any internal blind on physics alone, and if your western wall will take one, that is the job we would rather quote. Brisbane is full of houses where it will not — and that is exactly where a metallised fabric earns its money.
The range
Local conditions
The Overlay Decides Before The Fabric Does
Brisbane City Council maps a traditional building character overlay across the pre-1946 housing in the inner suburbs — Paddington, Bulimba, New Farm, Ascot, Clayfield, Red Hill, Camp Hill and a good deal more besides. It governs what happens to the traditional form of those houses from the street: the original roof shape stays, the verandah stays, a low-set house stays low-set, and external materials have to sit with what was there in 1946. Council publishes the rules on its own heritage and character pages. Bolting an external screen or a folding arm awning across the street face of one of those houses is not a small thing, and on some of them it is not a conversation anyone wants to start. That is the honest argument for putting a reflective fabric on the inside of the glass instead, and it is an argument that only applies to certain houses.
The second half of it is where the sun actually lands. The deep verandah on a character house is on the front, because that is where the overlay wanted it, and the room that cooks is almost always the extension at the back — the one with the wall of glass onto the deck, facing west or north-west because that is where the yard is. There is usually nothing over that glass at all. Where there is an eave, it was sized for a summer noon, and the sun that ruins the room arrives at four in the afternoon, underneath it.
So you end up with a house that has a beautiful verandah on the side that was never the problem, and a room nobody sits in after three.
The detail that matters
Three Numbers We Will Put In Writing
Verosol publishes a reflectance percentage, and every page selling the fabric repeats it. We do not, because we have not verified it ourselves, and a performance figure you cannot check is worth less than a specification you can. These three are ours, and they will be on your quote.
SilverScreen carries a metallised backing, which reflects solar radiation away from the glass rather than absorbing it. That distinction matters more than any percentage: a fabric that absorbs heat becomes a warm surface inside your room and gives it back to you all afternoon. A fabric that reflects does not. It is also why colour choice on a sunscreen is not purely a decorating decision, and we will say so at the measure.
Openness is the percentage of the weave that is open, and it is the single most useful figure on a sunscreen blind. Lower blocks more glare and gives you less view. We stock 1%, 3%, 5% and 10% — the whole range — so a west-facing home office can go to 1% while a north-facing living room that exists for the outlook can sit at 10%. Almost nobody publishes this number, which tells you something about how the choice usually gets made.
A single roller blind stops being sensible at about three metres. Past that we move to a 60mm tube, and past the tube the right answer is two blinds coupled across the opening rather than one heroic span that walks off the tube by year five. Some fabrics run wider than others. Which of those applies to your opening, and where the join sits in the glass, gets decided at the measure — not on installation day.
Brisbane & Gold Coast clients
Sun and glare, in their words
Three of 85 reviews, every one of them five stars. These three are about the thing this page is actually selling — light and heat coming off a window — rather than about us.
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
So good! I love the blind, the way it looks and the amount it has minimised the sun and heat.
Dayana Winnall
Hi Debbie, Once again, Helen and I would like to thank you for the supply and fitting of Blockout and Sunscreen blinds to all windows in our new unit. We sincerely appreciate your attention to the quality of all fittings…
Wal & Helen Edgar
Where they go
Two Or Three Windows, Not The Whole House
The west or north-west wall of glass onto the deck, which is the window that made you look this up. SilverScreen on a roller here, at 1% or 3% openness, is where the fabric pays for itself and where we would spend your money first.
QuoteSilverScreen is a sunscreen, not a blockout — it will not darken a room and it gives you nothing once it is dark outside. So pair it: sunscreen on the front roller for the day, blockout on the back for the night, both on one bracket. Allow about 115 to 122mm of projection for the double bracket.
QuoteGlare on a screen is a contrast problem rather than a brightness one, so go to the lowest openness you can live with — usually 1% — and accept that you lose some of the view for it. The openness trade-off, in detail.
QuoteCasement sashes on a pre-1946 house swing outward, so a blind has to clear the sash or the window stops opening. Whether it fits inside the reveal or on the face of the wall is settled at the measure, along with what the bracket screws into — VJ lining over a cavity will not hold a blind on its own, and neither will plasterboard.
QuoteSouth-facing glass that never takes direct sun does not need a reflective fabric, and a room whose real problem is being overlooked after dark will not be fixed by one either. That is a curtain question, or a blockout one. We would rather tell you that at the measure than sell you the wrong fabric twice.
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 room before we can quote. Aspect is what picks the openness, and the opening is what picks the mechanism.
Itemised component by component, valid for 30 days, and free. The lead time goes on the quote rather than after the deposit.
Nothing starts until you are comfortable with the selections. Twelve months on our workmanship from the day of installation.
Where we work
Byron Bay To Brisbane, Every Week
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
Verosol is a fabric brand that also builds the blinds its fabric goes into. The line we supply is SilverScreen, a sunscreen fabric with a metallised backing that reflects solar radiation instead of absorbing it. We are a Verosol dealer and we make it up three ways — as a roller blind, as a pleated blind, or as curtain fabric on a runnered track. The fabric answers the aspect of the room; the shape of the opening answers the mechanism. More on how the fabric works.
Yes, and the mechanism is worth understanding rather than taking on faith. A dark absorbent blind still stops the light, but it turns into a warm surface inside your room and radiates that heat back at you for the rest of the afternoon. A metallised backing reflects the radiation at the glass instead. We do not quote a reflectance percentage, because we have not verified the manufacturer's figure ourselves. Any internal blind is still working on heat that has already crossed the glass, so if you can shade that window from the outside, do that first.
We will not put a figure on it before we have seen the window, and anyone who does is guessing at the two things that actually move the price: the size of the opening and how many of them there are. What we will commit to is the process. The measure is free, the quote comes back inside 24 to 48 hours, it is itemised component by component so you can see what each part costs, and it is valid for 30 days. A 50% deposit is payable on order and the balance on the day of installation, so getting a price costs you nothing.
Roller blinds and pleated blinds run 2 to 3 weeks, and curtains 2 to 4 weeks depending on the fabric. Those run from the check-measure to installation rather than from your first phone call. Motorisation adds about a week, more if power has to be run to the opening. The number goes on your quote, and we treat it as a good-faith estimate rather than a guarantee.
That is one of the better reasons to choose an internal reflective fabric in Brisbane. The traditional building character overlay governs external alterations to the street-facing form of pre-1946 houses across the inner suburbs, which makes an external screen or awning a much harder proposition on those elevations than on a newer build. An internal blind is inside the glass and is not an external alteration. We are not planners and we do not give planning advice — check anything you are unsure of with Brisbane City Council. What we can tell you is what will fit the sash and what the bracket can be fixed into.
No. SilverScreen is a sunscreen, so it cuts glare and heat and keeps some of the view, and it will not darken a bedroom. It also gives you nothing after dark, because with the light on inside and the sky dark outside the fabric works the other way round. If you want both, the answer is two blinds on one bracket — sunscreen for the day, blockout for the night. Anyone selling you one fabric that does both is selling something.
Verosol is a Dutch company, headquartered in the Netherlands with facilities there, in Spain and in Australia. Its Australian manufacturing runs out of Revesby in Sydney, which is also where a back-to-base warranty claim goes. Origin varies by product, so if Australian manufacture matters on your job, ask and we will get it in writing against the item on your quote.
All of them, and we run the corridor from Byron Bay to Brisbane every week. The suburbs we are in most often are New Farm, Ascot, Hamilton, Bulimba, Paddington, Toowong, Chelmer, Clayfield, West End and Camp Hill. We also cover the Gold Coast and the Tweed. We are open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm, on (07) 5528 4006.
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