Wall Panel 80C Mid Grey: the middle tone of the 80 flutes

One thing first, because it decides whether you are on the right page at all. The web address for this listing reads as black. The panel is named 80C Mid Grey. The two do not agree, the name is the one to go by, and if you need it confirmed before you order, ask us and we will check the box. Have a look at the Wall Panel 80C mid grey pack page and judge from the pictures.

If it was black you wanted

There are blacks in the range, just not in this profile. Wall Panel 82E is black with the same 15cm face and a thinner 1cm section, and Wall Panel 81E is black at the same 15cm face, listed at 1.8cm thick with sixteen pieces to a pack. Neither is listed as the same profile as this one, so they are alternatives rather than substitutions. If a fitter has told you to order the black 80, ask them which panel they actually meant before you buy anything.

Where a mid grey sits in a room

The listing gives this tone a name and nothing else: no colour reference, no gloss level, no description of the grain. So what follows is about mid greys in general, not a specification of this panel, and the photographs are the only colour information the page carries.

A mid grey is dark enough to read as a colour rather than as off-white, and light enough that it does not swallow a room with one window. Within this profile the name puts it a step below the light grey 80B and in a different direction from the two oaks. Beside white woodwork a mid tone holds a crisp line, and against a dark floor it usually reads lighter than it does on a screen. None of that is in the listing, so if you are matching paint or a carpet, send us the reference and we will look at the panel against it before you order.

What the pack adds up to

The listing is careful to say that both the 15cm and the 4.32m² are measured once the pieces are fitted and pushed into one another, so those are the numbers to use. Work in pieces: wall width in centimetres, divided by fifteen, rounded up. A 2.1m wall takes fourteen pieces, so one pack falls two short and you need a second. A 1.65m wall takes eleven, which one pack covers with a piece in hand.

Four details to pin down for the 80C

• The edges. No trim in the catalogue carries the 80 code. Count your external corners and any exposed vertical edge, and ask us what finishes them in this profile.
• The fixing. The listing does not state a method. Adhesive for Wall Panels exists as its own listing, which is not the same as this page telling you to use it.
• The height. The panel is 240cm. If your ceiling is higher, decide now whether the panelling stops short on purpose or carries a horizontal joint, because the listing describes no joint detail.
• Fire classification. Not published. Ask, in writing, if the wall is in a hall, a stair or a let property.

The light grey of the same profile is Wall Panel 80B, and everything else is in Slat & Acoustic Panels. Delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond.

When your piece count is settled, the figures and photographs are on the Wall Panel 80C listing. Quote the code 80C when you ask, and the colour confusion ends there.