Welded steel. Horizontal slats. The detail that finishes the home — not the one bolted on to hide it.
Every Hasting Privacy Screen is welded in our Tamworth workshop — frame, slats, hidden connections — one rigid piece. No plastic locking plugs. No spacer blocks. No clip-and-fit channels that loosen the first time the wind hits them.
50 × 10 RHS horizontal slats, 10mm spacings — the same architectural rhythm running through the Hasting fence panels and gates. Specify the screen on its own, or carry the line across the whole property as a single designed gesture.
Steel slats welded into a steel frame don't pop, click or hum in the wind. Four-stage bonded powder coat doesn't chalk or fade through the first summer. The screen still reads the same the morning your kids leave home as it did the day it went in.
Walk down any new street and you'll see them — those thin aluminium slat panels clipped into channel posts beside the pool pump, the bin bay, the deck edge. They do the job for a season. Then the wind finds them. The plastic plugs work loose. The slats start to hum. The frame ticks in the sun. And the first time someone reaches over the top, the whole panel flexes like a tray.
The Hasting Privacy Screen isn't that. It's a welded steel panel — 38 × 25 RHS frame, 50 × 10 RHS horizontal slats, every joint welded shut by hand and finished in a four-stage bonded powder coat. There are no clips. No plugs. No channels for slats to slide around inside. Touch one slat and the whole panel answers as a single piece of steel — the way a real architectural detail is supposed to feel.
It's the screen for the pool deck of the home you actually finished properly. The courtyard of the renovation that went past plan. The bin bay of a build that earned its driveway. It costs more than the flat-pack. It also doesn't look like a flat-pack. That trade is the entire point.
The Hasting Privacy Screen vs the flat-pack aluminium kit — what you're actually choosing between.
| What matters | Hasting Steel Privacy Screen | Flat-pack aluminium kit |
|---|---|---|
| How it's built | Welded at every joint. Frame, slats and corners fused as one rigid piece of steel. | Slats clipped, plugged or screwed into channel posts. Built to come apart. |
| Slat profile | 50 × 10 RHS solid steel — heavy enough to hold a line for decades. | Lightweight aluminium extrusion (typically 65 × 16, soft 6063). Dents with a thumb. |
| Wind & noise | Silent. Nothing to rattle, click or hum — it's one welded piece. | Known to rattle in wind as plastic plugs and clips loosen over time. |
| Stays straight | Every slat stays parallel and true — welded steel doesn't bow under load. | Slats sag and twist over long spans; channels widen, gaps drift. |
| Finish | Four-Stage Bonded Powder Coat in 26 premium colours — bonded to steel, not sprayed onto extrusion. | Standard powder coat or paint — fades and chalks, especially in coastal sun. |
| How it looks at the home | Reads as part of the architecture — the same horizontal line as a designed front fence. | Reads as a screen — a thing bolted on to hide something else. |
| Fixings | Concealed, welded — no visible screws, no rivets, no plastic plugs. | UV-rated polypropylene plugs and visible fasteners — designed to be replaceable, which means they will be. |
| Origin | 100% made in Tamworth, NSW — by the welders who'll still be there next year. | Imported components, packed in a flat box, sold from a shelf. |
| Lifespan | Designed to outlive the home it stands beside. Backed by our 10-Year Structural Warranty. | A "set and forget" product — until it isn't. Realistically a replacement cycle inside a decade. |
The Hasting Privacy Screen is matched by the Hasting fence panel, single gate and double gate — same 50 × 10 horizontal slats, same 10mm spacings, same welded steel construction, same finish. The front boundary, the side return, the pool deck screen and the bin bay all read as one architectural decision, not five different fixes from five different suppliers.
Hasting Privacy Screens are made-to-measure, welded as a single panel, and supplied with matched Mason & Dean posts and concealed fixings — face-fix to render, masonry, timber, or core-drill into concrete. No channel systems. No plastic locking plugs. Nothing in the box to lose, snap, or fade.
Speak to our team before you order. We'll walk you through opening width, post spacing, fixing method and finish — so the screen arrives ready to install in a single, clean visit.
Every Hasting Privacy Screen is welded — never flat-pack — finished in your choice of 26 premium powder-coat colours and delivered ready to install. Backed by our 10-Year Structural Warranty. Speak to our team before you order — sizing, posts, fixings, finish, all sorted in one call.