Wall Panel 02WB in grey: 280cm cover and slat spacing

Wall Panel 02WB is the grey panel in the tall format: 60cm wide, 280cm high, HDF slats on a felt backing, three panels to a pack. The height is the point of it. Most slat panels in the range stop at 240cm, so a room with a raised ceiling, a stairwell or a converted loft either takes a horizontal join or takes a panel like this one. The figures below are from the Wall Panel 02WB grey acoustic panel listing.

The listed figures

The coverage is consistent with the panel size: 0.6m x 2.8m is 1.68m², and three panels give the 5.04m² quoted. The dimensions read as 60 wide, 280 tall and 1.7 deep, supported by the 280cm in the name, but they are not labelled on the listing, so confirm them before cutting.

Height first, then width

Take the floor-to-ceiling measurement in three or four places across the wall and use the tallest. Rooms settle, floors slope, and the panel that fits at one end can be short at the other. If every reading comes in under 240cm, one of the shorter panels in the slat and acoustic panel range will waste less. If any reading is above 240cm, this is the panel that gets you up the wall in one piece.

Width is then simple arithmetic: three 60cm panels per pack is 1.8m of wall at full height. A 2.4m wall is four panels, so two packs with two left over; a 3.6m wall is six panels, exactly two packs. Measure at the top and at skirting level and work from the wider figure.

Grey, and the thing the listing will not settle

The listing names a grey finish and shows it in photographs. What it does not give is a shade reference, a gloss level, or any note on whether the grey is warm or cool. That is the detail that decides whether the wall sits with your existing paint or fights it, and grey is the colour where a small difference is most obvious. If the panelling has to live beside a painted wall or a grey floor, ask the shop whether a sample or a closer photograph can be arranged first. The range also carries Wall Panel 02WO in grey marble at the same 280cm height if you want pattern rather than a flat tone, and Wall Panel 02WK in white marble if the room needs lifting instead.

The slat rhythm on a tall wall

At 3.5cm slats with 1.5cm gaps the repeat is 5cm, which is twelve repeats across a 60cm panel by arithmetic from the published figures. On a 280cm wall that broader spacing reads as a calmer set of vertical lines than the 2.5cm slats used elsewhere in the range, and it emphasises the height rather than cluttering it. The listing does not state a slat count, so check the photographs if the setting-out needs to be symmetrical about a chimney breast or a window.

Allow for the 1.7cm depth where the panelling meets skirting, architrave, cornice and sockets, and check your access before delivery day: a 280cm pack is long, and the listing gives no packed dimensions or weight.

Sound, described but not measured

The description sets out slats over a felt backing and says the panel absorbs sound and reduces noise. No absorption coefficient, class or decibel figure is published, and nothing in the listing claims it stops sound passing through the wall into the next room. Tall rooms with hard floors usually have echo to spare, which is the problem this kind of panelling is reasonable at. If the job needs a figure on paper, ask the shop to get the supplier's data rather than taking the description as a measurement.

The oak version on identical dimensions is Wall Panel 02WA in oak, so the panel count does not change if you switch finish. The trim named on the listing is Wall Panel PVC Trim Acoustic, with no length or quantity given, so ask what your run needs, and add adhesive for wall panels, which is not included. Delivery is free within 50 miles of the Glasgow store and £50 beyond, and the photographs and figures are on the Wall Panel 02WB grey acoustic panel page.