WR120D Zip Screen with LED Lighting: Specs for Installers | Zipluxr

An evening on the terrace rarely fails because of the weather. It fails because the light is wrong — too dim to see the table, too harsh to sit under, and coming from a fitting that was drilled, taped and wired on long after the screen went in. The Zipluxr WR120D takes a different route: a zip screen with LED lighting built into the frame itself, so the same product that blocks the wind at four in the afternoon sets the mood at nine at night.

This is a windproof outdoor roller screen first. It shades, it shelters, it holds its privacy through the evening. The difference is that it also lights the space it encloses — evenly, softly, and without a single visible diode.

Lighting Built Into the Frame, Not Added to It

The strip on the WR120D is a recessed LED strip set into the profile rather than fixed to its surface. Light leaves the frame as a diffuse wash instead of a line of dots, so there is no glare at eye level when the screen is down and people are sitting right beside it. That matters more than it sounds: most complaints about outdoor strip lighting are complaints about seeing the strip.

The output is genuinely useful. It is enough to read on a balcony, to see the glasses on a terrace table, to move around a pergola after dark without reaching for a phone torch. It is not floodlight. The effect reads as warmth, and the space stops being usable-by-day-only.

What the WR120D does not do is trade one job for the other. The recessed light sits on a screen that still performs as a piece of outdoor equipment: shade without blocking the view, wind resistance to Class 12, rain and dust kept outside, and privacy that holds in both directions. Folded away during the day the frame barely registers; lit up at night it becomes the most decorative element on the elevation.

The light source itself is an energy-saving LED with a long service life, sealed against rain and humidity so that outdoor service is the normal condition rather than an exception. There is nothing to unplug before the season turns.

The Problems This Removes From a Project

The most obvious one is the split between shading and lighting. An ordinary zip screen handles wind and sun and nothing else, so the lighting becomes a second project: cable runs, junction boxes, trunking, a surface fitting at every metre, a conversation with the electrician, and a permanent hole in the budget for work nobody planned at the design stage. An integrated zip screen closes that gap. One frame, one order, one fixing detail — the light is simply there when the screen arrives.

The second is the quality of light after sunset. Balconies and sunrooms tend to go unused at night for no reason other than that nobody solved how to light them well. A single ceiling spot is too hard, a lantern is too weak, and a row of downlights turns a two-metre terrace into a shopfront. The diffuse glow from a screen frame gives a room-sized softness that is comfortable to sit under and still bright enough to use.

The third is maintenance. Outdoor fittings are the item that comes back: moisture getting into a connector, a diffuser yellowing after one summer, a driver that failed because its enclosure was never really sealed. Because the WR120D strip is sealed at production and treated for water, dust and UV, the weather rating of the lighting is the weather rating of the screen. It is one assembly to specify instead of two assemblies to defend.

There is also a privacy detail that only appears at night. A bright interior behind glass makes the room visible from everywhere outside, so customers and homeowners both end up running lights they cannot enjoy. Lighting the perimeter from the screen instead keeps the illumination outside the envelope: the space stays open and legible, and nobody is looking in.

Finally, style. A screen from one supplier and lights from another rarely agree on finish, and the seam shows across the whole elevation. On the WR120D the fabric and the light colour are specified together, so frame, cloth and glow read as one deliberate decision.

What Holds It Up Structurally

The lighting is the part people notice, but the frame is the part that decides whether the installation is still good in five years.

The WR120D carries its fabric on a 63-tube roller with a structure engineered to keep the fabric flat through its entire travel. That shows up most at height. Above five metres, most screens begin to scallop, sag or bind in the track; the WR120D continues to run smoothly and sits flush, which is what makes tall openings, atrium glazing and full-height pergola bays possible without a compromise spec.

Wind is handled the same way the fabric is: along the line rather than at a point. The zip tracks hold the textile under tension, so pressure transfers into the track instead of pulling at the corners of the screen. The result is a Class 12 rating that also shuts out dust and drifting rain, which is what actually keeps a covered table usable on a blustery day.

Installation stays flexible. A zip screen with LED lighting suits new openings and it suits existing ones, where it replaces a plain roller screen opening-for-opening and the only added step is dressing the supply to the head box — no ceiling to modify, no chasing, no new cut-outs. None of that is exotic, but it is worth confirming the substrate, the sill drainage and the track clearance against site conditions before the frame is manufactured.

Where a Zip Screen with LED Lighting Earns Its Place

On a residential balcony the win is simple: the floor stops being a storage area once it is lit properly, and a frame that sits inside the handrail line adds no visual bulk to a small space. A pergola or garden pavilion is the natural pairing — the structure already defines an outdoor room, the screen closes it against wind and low sun, and the recessed strip finishes it as somewhere people want to sit after dark rather than a structure they walk past.

A glass sunroom is the opposite case, and the light earns its keep in a different way. Glazed rooms collect glare and heat, so the screen does the daytime work while the LED gives the room a light source that does not compete with the sky through the roof.

For a restaurant terrace or a hotel exterior, the argument is measured in covers. Weather protection extends the season; lighting extends the evening. A windproof zip screen with lighting built in delivers both from one installation, which means more hours of service without a second fit-out. And for any contractor specifying several openings at once, it means one product to source, one fixing detail to repeat and one supplier to hold accountable, with the fabric and the light colour still chosen per elevation.

An Outdoor Room With Two Modes

Daytime, the WR120D is a windproof zip screen that happens to have a channel in the frame. Nighttime, the same frame is the reason a terrace is still occupied at ten o'clock. Nothing new was drilled, nothing extra was wired, and the elevation looks like it was drawn that way from the beginning.

If you are specifying one for a project, send the opening sizes, the substrate the frame will fix into, and the light colour you want to see. We will come back with a fabric and colour chart, the fixing and wiring details, and an honest lead time.