Acoustic wall panels for UK offices, schools and venues

Of the timber options on this page, micro-perforation keeps its workings out of sight: the holes are too fine to read, where perforated and grooved boards show a visible pattern. Absorption comes from the holes and the cavity behind, set by the perforation density, so it suits meeting rooms and boardrooms where the wall must look like plain timber. Perfopan publishes an NRC for each variant, from 0.35 to 0.80.

Perforated boards sit between micro-perforated and grooved panels: the hole pattern stays visible, and the open area and backing decide which frequencies are absorbed. Choose them where a timber wall should read as a deliberate pattern, in halls, auditoriums and corridors, or where a Perfofire fibre-gypsum core is needed for A2-s1,d0.

Where perforated boards show holes, grooved boards show fine linear lines, with the perforations hidden on the back. That gives a continuous joinery look in halls, auditoriums and receptions, and the Flex versions bend around curved walls and columns, which flat boards cannot.

Slat panels read as joinery first, like grooved boards, but with open gaps over a felt backing instead of a perforated board. They suit receptions, boardrooms and homes, in real wood veneer or moisture-resistant PVC, and the Kuuks veneer ranges carry B-s1,d0 on both slats and felt.