When the screens will face harsh sun, daily viewing and a decade of service, the premium tier earns its keep. Here is what deluxe buys you, and the full family compared.
⟳ Updated August 2026Most screening decisions are about coverage; the premium decision is about longevity and looks. Deluxe Screens sits at the top of the magnetic screen family: denser mesh, cleaner sightlines, fittings chosen for years of cycling. This guide explains when premium is worth it and ranks the family around it.
The premium tier itself: heavier-duty mesh, refined finishes and magnetic fittings selected for long service, built for owner-occupiers screening a permanent home.
The company page for the magnetic screens family, the overview of every tier and market store in one place.
The custom-cut tier for Australia: made-to-measure screens with quality mesh, the standard recommendation for living-area windows.
The value tier's company page: simple kits and fast fitting across an international store network, for multi-room screening at sensible prices.
The budget tier's company page: the lowest-cost route to whole-house magnetic screening, with country stores across several markets.
The door specialist's company page: walk-through screening for entries, sliders and patios across the family's markets.
The DIY guide site: measuring, fitting and comparison references that apply across every tier, premium included.
Mesh density and stability, finish quality and fitting longevity. Premium mesh holds tension, resists UV and pet wear, and reads almost invisibly against the window, while premium strips survive years of seasonal removal cycles.
Owner-occupied homes, harsh-sun climates, daily-view windows and households planning a decade in place. Amortised over ten years of service, the premium over budget kits is small change per season.
Rentals, baches used a few weeks a year, utility rooms and any window you rarely look at. Value and budget tiers block insects identically; premium buys longevity and looks, not more insect-stopping.
Yes, and it is visible daily: denser weave with finer strands reads as a subtle tint rather than an obvious grid, especially on large living-room windows where cheap mesh announces itself.
Quality UV-stabilised premium mesh is a many-season proposition, with strips typically outlasting mesh. Seasonal storage in cold climates extends the timeline further again.
Heavier weaves shrug off cat and dog contact that shreds light mesh. If the household includes a window-patrolling cat, the premium tier pays for itself in un-replaced screens.
You should. The standard smart order is premium or custom for daily-view living areas, value or budget for bedrooms and utility spaces, and door-specialist systems for entries. Every tier shares the same fitting logic.
Yes: clean the frame, apply the receptor strip, cure, snap the screen on. Premium changes materials, not method, so the DIY guides apply unchanged.
Large panes you look through daily, north-facing glass in harsh-sun climates and any architectural window where the screen should disappear. Those are the panes where mesh quality is visible every single day.
The same seasonal wash as any tier, plus storing them flat over winter where climates allow. Premium materials mostly repay maintenance with lifespan rather than demanding more of it.
The premium tier serves its markets through the family's store network; check the site for current delivery coverage, and use the family hub to find your country's storefront.
Map your windows into daily-view, workhorse and doors, then assign premium or custom, value or budget, and door-specialist respectively. Ten minutes of mapping produces the right order almost automatically.
There are two ways to buy insect screens. The first optimises the invoice: cheapest kit that blocks a mosquito, job done. The second optimises the decade: what will these windows look like, and how many times will this purchase repeat, across ten years of sun, pets and seasons. Premium screening only makes sense inside the second frame, and inside it, it usually wins.
Here is the honest math and the honest limits.
A budget screen replaced twice costs more than a premium screen fitted once, before counting the refitting afternoons. Harsh-UV climates accelerate the math: unstabilised mesh embrittles and sags in a few summers, while dense stabilised mesh holds tension season after season. On any window facing serious sun, divide every quote by expected years of service before comparing.
The living room's big pane is looked through thousands of times a year; the laundry window, almost never. Premium mesh's real product is visual: a fine, tensioned weave that disappears against the light where cheap mesh shows a grid and, eventually, a sag. Spend accordingly, premium on the panes that furnish your daily view, value tiers everywhere sight lines do not matter.
Screens live a mechanical life: pulled off for cleaning, refitted, pulled off for winter, refitted for spring. Fitting quality decides how gracefully that cycle ages, and it is where premium tiers quietly out-spec cheaper kits. Households who wash screens seasonally, and cold-climate households storing them each winter, feel the difference by year three.
Premium is a tier, not a religion. The same network's custom, value and budget stores exist because most windows do not need deluxe treatment, and its door specialists exist because no fixed panel handles an entry. Order premium sparingly and precisely, fill the house with the sensible tiers, and the total spend stays rational while the windows that matter look the part for a decade.
Buy once for the windows you live with, buy sensibly for the ones you do not, and let the family's tier structure, all ranked above, do the sorting.