Most enquiries arrive as a complaint: it echoes, people cannot hear, it is too loud. Here are the seven situations we are asked about most, and what we actually recommend for each.
16 mm straight panels, 30–40% coverage
Opposing parallel walls and a hard ceiling create a strong flutter echo. Treating two opposing walls in 16 mm breaks the reflection path. We usually supply 8–10 panels for a 6 × 4 m room.
11–16 mm panels plus a ceiling strategy
Open plan fails on speech privacy, not on total noise. Panels on the walls reduce the build-up; desk-side screens and a ceiling absorber do the rest. Be honest: panels alone do not fix an open plan, they help.
WQ-1 flexible panels in the same finish
The curve and the flat wall must match. Because the flexible panel comes off the same colour card as the straight panel, you order one finish and one colour batch — no visible mismatch at the joint.
21 mm full-height YX-13 on side walls
The long reverberation tail of a stone-and-tile hall is the cause. Full-height panels avoid horizontal joints that break the visual rhythm, and 21 mm felt gives the highest absorption we make.
21 mm panels on 50 mm battens
Direct-fixed panels absorb the speech band and leave bass untouched. A 50 mm cavity converts the panel into a low-frequency absorber. If bass is the complaint, mount on battens first, then add corner treatment.
9 mm DT-1, direct fixed
In a renovation the finished wall often cannot grow. 9 mm total thickness plus a 1 mm adhesive layer keeps the finished wall inside 15 mm, so door clearances and floor area survive.
Mixed pallet: DT-2, WQ-1, three YX patterns
A workable stock range is one flat panel in the most-requested thickness, one flexible panel, and two or three shaped patterns in the most-sold wood tones. That covers most enquiries without tying up capital in slow colours.
We would rather lose a sale than oversell. A slatted panel is a mid-frequency absorber mounted on a wall. That solves a large share of real-world complaints. It does not solve everything.
Send the room size, the surface materials and what users complain about. We will answer with a panel schedule, a thickness and an FOB price — and tell you if a panel will not solve it.
