One product, and a genuinely useful one: the SCH! acoustic wall tile, sold in sets of four. The tiles are upholstered panels that fix to a wall and soak up reflected sound, and because they come in fours you can build a block, run a stripe along a corridor, or scatter them so the wall reads as decoration rather than treatment. They earn their keep in the rooms everyone complains about: hard floored meeting rooms and glass fronted offices where speech bounces and calls get lost. The rest of the SCH! acoustic collection matches them.
Where to put acoustic tiles
Sound reflects off the surface opposite whoever is talking, so treat the wall facing them first, then the one behind. In a meeting room, panels at head height along the two long walls do more than almost anything on the ceiling, because that is the height speech travels at. Cover a decent proportion of the hard surface rather than dotting four tiles across a big wall and hoping, since a handful of panels in a large room looks considered and changes very little.
Tiles are not the only tool, and often not the first one. Where a ceiling is high or the services are exposed, ceiling baffles and hanging acoustics catch reflections above head height that wall panels never reach. On an open plan floor most of the noise is people talking at their desks, so desktop and acoustic screens between positions do more than anything fixed to the walls. For calls that need to be private, a privacy booth or pod is the real fix.
Softening the rest of the room
A hard room needs more than one soft thing in it. Upholstered soft seating absorbs sound while it seats people, and a run of Impulse Plus screens divides a space and deadens it at once. It is worth browsing acoustic solutions before committing to one approach.
Acoustic tiles for offices in Ipswich and Colchester
The shop is run by Neil Andrew Office Solutions Limited, a family firm based on Edison Close at Ransomes Europark in Ipswich, which has supplied and installed office furniture since the 1980s. A meeting room in Bury St Edmunds, Norwich or Woodbridge gets the same visit as one five minutes away in Ipswich.
Fixing panels straight and level matters more here than with most things, since a crooked block is the first thing anybody notices, so installation can be added to an order. Standard UK mainland delivery is free and usually inside five working days, with a next working day upgrade if they are needed before Friday. Send a photo of the wall and the room size, or ring 01473 464644 and we will work out how many sets it takes.
