Reflect The Heat, Keep The View
Verosol SilverScreen is a sunscreen fabric with a metallised backing, so solar radiation is turned around at the glass instead of soaked up and released into the room. We are a Verosol dealer and we supply SilverScreen in three forms — curtain fabric, roller blinds and pleated blinds — measured and fitted anywhere from Byron Bay to Brisbane.
Why Lusso, Brisbane & Gold Coast
Specify It For The Glass, Not The House
Take the counter-argument first, because it is the honest one: shading works best outside the glass, and the national Your Home guidance on shading puts an eave, a pergola or an external screen ahead of anything you hang inside. Where you can build one of those, build it. SilverScreen is for the openings where you cannot — a tower façade, a character frontage, a boundary wall a metre from the window — and on those it does more than any standard sunscreen on our shelf.
The range
Local conditions
Low Sun Walks In Under The Roofline
Byron Bay to Brisbane, the coast runs north to south, and the glass everybody paid extra for faces east over the water. That sun arrives at first light, almost level, and it comes in under the eave rather than over it. The Your Home guidance on orientation is blunt about why: east and west glass is the hard case, because the sun sits low and an overhang cannot reach it. That is the argument for doing the work at the glass itself, on those two aspects and rarely on the others.
The same thing happens in reverse at the end of the day, on the western wall, over the hinterland — except by four o’clock that glass has had the whole afternoon to warm up. An absorbing fabric hung there has spent three hours soaking up the load and is now a warm panel sitting inside your window. A metallised backing turns most of that around before it becomes heat you have to live with, and that is the only reason to pay more for one.
A 600mm eave shades a west-facing window beautifully from about eleven until two, which is not when anyone is sitting in the room. Same fabric, same house, and the answer still changes with the aspect — which is why we ask which way the window faces before we quote anything, in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast alike.
The detail that matters
Three Numbers We Will Put In Writing
The backing is metallised, so the load is reflected at the glass instead of absorbed and released into the room. That is the mechanism, and it is the whole of what we will claim for it — the performance percentages belong to Verosol’s laboratory rather than to our web page. These are the three numbers that actually decide how the job turns out.
A roller suits a square reveal and a single pull. A pleated blind suits an awkward shape and stacks tighter at the top. Curtain fabric suits a wall of glass where you want the softness, and it runs on a fully runnered track — we do not fit rods or eyelets. Same cloth, three answers, and the wrong one is a small nuisance every day for the next ten years.
Openness is the percentage of the weave that is open, and it is the single most useful figure on a sunscreen quote. We stock 1%, 3%, 5% and 10%: tight for a west wall you have to work in front of, open where the view is the reason you bought the place. Most quotes say “sunscreen” and stop there. The openness trade-off, in detail.
A single roller runs to about 3 metres, wider on some fabrics, and past 3 metres we move to a 60mm tube so the blind does not sag across the span. On a wide opening that means one blind at its limit or two with a join between them — and you should be choosing where that join sits, not meeting it on installation day.
Brisbane & Gold Coast clients
Heat and glare, in their words
Eighty-five five-star reviews sit on the reviews page. The ones worth reading before you buy a screen fabric are the ones about sun — and not one of them mentions a reflectance figure. They mention the room being usable again.
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
Right Cloth, Right Aspect, Right Form
The classic case on this coast. Glare arrives off the water before seven and a mid-range openness holds the view while taking the edge off it, then goes up out of the way by nine.
QuoteHere you go tight — 1% or 3% openness. If you are looking at a screen with the afternoon sun behind it, the view is not the thing you are optimising for.
QuotePast about 3 metres you are choosing between one blind at its limit and two with a join. On a run of glass that wide, the same cloth made up as a curtain on a runnered track is often the better-looking answer.
QuoteWe would usually talk you out of it. A sunscreen is not a blockout, and a bedroom’s real problem is five in the morning in January. Put a blockout roller on the window, and if you want the daytime view as well, run both on one dual bracket.
QuoteGo to 10% openness and accept more glare, or hang the fabric on a track and pull it only when you need it. Deleting the view to solve the heat is solving the wrong problem — that window is what you paid for.
QuoteWhere it comes from
Verosol is Dutch. It started in the Netherlands in the 1960s, when Cornelis Verolme worked out how to vacuum‑bond a microscopic layer of aluminium to cloth. Verosol says that process is still unique to it, and that it invented the pleated blind as well. Take both as the manufacturer's claims rather than ours. The company is still headquartered there, with facilities in the Netherlands, Spain and Australia.
The Australian arm manufactures at Revesby in Sydney. That is also where a back‑to‑base warranty claim goes: Verosol publishes up to seven years, running from its own invoice date, with installation and return costs sitting with us as the dealer rather than with them. Origin varies by product, so if Australian manufacture is a condition of your job, ask and we will get it in writing against the item on your quote.
For specifiers, Verosol publishes Environmental Product Declarations and holds GREENGUARD Gold and Global GreenTag certification — the paperwork Green Star, LEED, WELL and BREEAM ask for. If you need current certificates for a commercial project, we will request them from Verosol rather than hand you a figure off a brochure. Same rule as the reflectance numbers: if we cannot stand behind it, it does not go on the page.
How 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 — on this fabric the aspect matters more than usual.
Itemised component by component, with the lead time on it, and valid for 30 days. Nothing is payable to get a price.
Nothing starts until you are comfortable with the selections. Our installation workmanship is warranted for 12 months from the day it goes in.
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
It is a fabric, not a blind. SilverScreen is a sunscreen cloth with a metallised backing — a microscopic layer of aluminium vacuum-bonded to the cloth — so solar radiation is reflected at the glass rather than absorbed and then given back to the room. 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. More on how the fabric works.
No, and it is not meant to. It is a sunscreen: it cuts glare and heat while keeping the view, which means you will still see daylight around the edges and you will still be visible from outside once the lamps are on. If the room needs darkness, that is a blockout job, and the two live happily on one bracket as a dual roller.
Yes. Curtain fabric is one of the three forms we supply, and it runs on a fully runnered track — we do not fit rods or eyelet headings. Curtains run 2–4 weeks from check-measure to installation, against 2–3 weeks for a roller or a pleated blind.
We will not put a square-metre rate on a web page, because the honest answer moves with the width, the drop, the form and the control. What we will commit to: the measure is free, the quote is itemised component by component so you can see where the money goes, it lands within 24–48 hours, and it is valid for 30 days. There is no deposit to get a price — the 50% falls due when you accept, and the balance on the day it is installed.
Lower openness blocks more glare and shows less of the view. We stock 1%, 3%, 5% and 10% across our sunscreen range — 1% or 3% for a west wall or a screen you work in front of, 10% where the view is the reason you bought the house. Which openness a given SilverScreen fabric comes in is a question we answer off the quote, not off a web page.
About 3 metres for a standard blind, and wider on some fabrics — we will tell you which at the measure. Past 3 metres we move to a 60mm tube so the blind does not sag across the span, and on a very wide opening the honest answer is often two blinds with the join in a place you chose.
Because we have not verified it ourselves. Verosol publishes performance figures and most dealer pages repeat them; we would rather put numbers on the page we can stand behind — 1%, 3%, 5% and 10% openness, about 3 metres of single-blind width, 2–3 weeks from measure to installation. If a reflectance figure matters to your specification, we will get it from the manufacturer in writing and put it on your quote.
Byron Bay to Brisbane, every week — the whole Gold Coast, the Tweed, and inland to the hinterland. We are open Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm, on (07) 5528 4006, and we come to you.
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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.
