04 Oct 2026
Wall Panel 42F Grey Oak: how grey reads on a slatted wall
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Wall Panel 42F - Grey Oak - Acoustic - 240cm - (1 pack / 4pcs)
Wall Panel 42F in grey oak is a felt-backed slat panel we buy in and sell by the pack: four panels, each 60 x 240 x 1.7cm, 5.76m² of face. Grey oak is the finish that divides opinion in a showroom. The name puts a grey over an oak look, which is why it gets bought for rooms with painted walls and grey flooring, but the listing never says what the face actually is: no species, no veneer, no print, no sheen level. Whether it lands well depends on the light in your room and on seeing a panel face first.
Grey oak against the greys you already have
A painted grey wall is flat and even. A slatted face is not: it adds a shadow line in every gap, and that much follows from the figures alone. What the face itself does beside your paint is the open question, because the listing does not say whether it is a flat grey or a grey over a visible grain, and those two sit very differently against a painted wall. Look at the photographs, and ask us what the face is before you build a scheme around it.
- Hold the panel face against the wall it will join, not against a white sheet.
- Look again after dark, under the lamps you actually use.
- Check it against the floor as well as the wall. A grey floor and a grey panel can clash where a grey wall would not.
- If a close match is what you want, ask us to compare it with 41F, the neighbouring grey oak code, and with 32F in the three-sided profile, before choosing.
Published, and not published
| On the listing | Not on the listing |
|---|---|
| 60 x 240 x 1.7cm per panel | Slat width |
| Four pieces a pack | Space between slats |
| 5.76m² a pack | Any acoustic figure or class |
| HDF slats, felt backing | Fire classification |
| Code AWS-HWP022 | Fixing method and panel weight |
| A grey oak finish, by name | Whether that face is a veneer, a print or timber |
The description says the felt backing absorbs sound and reduces noise transmission. No measurement is given for that anywhere on the page, so if the room has a specification to meet, ask us for the manufacturer's test data rather than assuming a value.
Where the 1.7cm shows
Depth is the detail that turns a tidy wall into a fiddly one. At 1.7cm the panel face stands proud of the plaster, so three junctions need thinking about before the first panel goes up. The skirting, where the panel either lands on top of it or the skirting comes off and goes back on. The architrave beside a door, where 1.7cm of panel meeting a flush casing looks unresolved without a trim. And every socket or switch, where the faceplate has to come forward onto the new face. Mark all of them on the wall at measuring stage, not on the day.
Counting panels, not square metres
Each panel takes 60cm of width, so a pack walks 2.4m along the wall at 240cm high. The 5.76m² figure is only the face area of those four panels, and it will flatter a wall with a door or a window in it, because a cut panel still comes out of the pack whole. Measure the width, divide by 60, round the remainder up to a panel and then round up to the nearest pack. Ask for the current lead time when you order, and buy the full wall at once so every panel comes from the same run.
Ordering 42F
Send us the wall width, the floor-to-ceiling height at both ends, and a note of what the panelling has to meet at its edges. Delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond. The photographs and the order form are on the Wall Panel 42F grey oak listing, and 42H is the oak-named panel at the same stated size, with its own photographs to judge. Everything else sits in Slat & Acoustic Panels.