Fire Retardant Grey Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard - 1200 x 900mm
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The Displaysense NB4809GR is a noticeboard, 1200mm by 900mm, with fire-rated grey felt and satin silver anodised aluminium. It is certified to BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0, tested as a composite and delivered free to UK Mainland.
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A Neutral Grey Noticeboard That Lets Notices Do Stand Out
The NB4809GR is the board to choose when you would rather the wall did its job without drawing any attention to itself. Its plain grey felt sits back against almost any paint colour or scheme, so the eye goes to what is pinned on it rather than the board itself, which is exactly what a busy office, a meeting room or a shared corridor usually wants from a wall. The whole board, grey felt and satin silver frame together, is fire tested as one complete composite rather than by its separate parts, so it can hang where fire compliance is checked. The felt holds both push pins and staples, while softened corners and hidden fixings keep the edges clean and safe, and it arrives ready to fix, portrait or landscape, with the wall fixings in the box. It comes from Displaysense alone. Best suited to offices, meeting rooms and public buildings where the board needs to fade into the wall and keep the room looking tidy.
Why a Grey Display Board Sits Back and Keeps a Room Looking Tidy
- Quiet, neutral surface: Grey felt takes on almost no colour of its own, so it settles against a painted, papered or panelled wall without clashing with any one of them, and the room keeps a plain, orderly feel while the notices themselves are left alone to carry the message.
- Content comes first: With nothing loud about the board, the eye lands straight on the printed notice, the rota or the plan pinned to it, which suits a workplace that wants its information read rather than a wall that shouts for attention on its own.
- One whole-board fire test: The finished unit, felt, backing and frame, was classified together to BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0, so the rating covers the complete board, not one treated layer, wherever fire rules apply.
- Rounded, hidden hardware: Soft corners and concealed fixings leave a flush face with nothing sharp on show, a tidy detail on a board that is really meant to disappear into the wall rather than stand proud of it and draw the eye.
- Pinned or stapled: The grey felt holds push pins for quick swaps and staples for a firmer grip, so light memos and heavier laminated sheets sit securely and change over easily as the week moves on and the notices need swapping.
- Ours to supply only: This grey fire board is stocked through Displaysense and nowhere on the high street, which keeps the certified board on your wall specific to your building and means a follow-up order will always be the very same board.
Where an Open Felt Pin Board Feels at Home in Offices and Meeting Rooms
| Open-Plan Offices | Working floors already carry a lot of visual clutter from desks, screens and signage, so a plain grey board quietly adds a place for rotas and updates without piling any more extra colour onto a room that has plenty going on already. |
| Meeting and Board Rooms | Formal rooms look best kept understated, and a neutral grey board holds agendas and reference sheets on the wall without pulling focus from the table or clashing with a carefully chosen decor scheme. |
| Reception and Waiting Areas | A front-of-house wall is often styled to a brand palette, and a grey board slots in against it quietly, carrying opening times and notices while leaving the careful first impression of the space fully intact. |
| Schools and Staff Corridors | Corridor walls in schools change display often, so a grey board gives a steady, unchanging backdrop that works whatever goes up next, from safeguarding notices to term dates and pupil work, without the board itself ever looking out of place. |
| Healthcare and Clinical Areas | Clinical spaces favour plain, low-key finishes, and a neutral grey board keeps procedures and staff information on show in a way that looks orderly and clean while still meeting the fire rules a public site follows. |
| Repainted or Repurposed Rooms | A room whose colour or use changes over time needs a board that will still suit it later, and grey is the one shade least likely to fight against a new wall colour, so it stays right long after a bolder board would start to look dated against the new scheme. |
Want a Bit of Colour Instead?
Prefer some colour? This board also comes in blue for a corporate feel and red where a notice must be seen fast, as well as green. Tell us the room and we will match the shade to it.
Call our team on 01279460460 or describe the wall and we will point you the right way.
The Displaysense NB4809GR is a compact fire-resistant grey felt aluminium-framed noticeboard. It is fire tested as a complete composite, not from flame-retardant parts alone, meeting BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0. The board measures 1200mm x 900mm and weighs 10kg. Its neutral grey felt recedes into a wall so the notices stand out, and it takes push pins and staples. A satin silver anodised aluminium frame surrounds the board, the corners are rounded for safety and the fixings are concealed. It hangs portrait or landscape, arrives with wall fixings and is for indoor use. It is a Displaysense exclusive. The plain grey suits offices, meeting rooms, reception areas, schools, healthcare sites and any wall where the board should not compete with the room around it. Also available in blue (NB4809BL), red (NB4809RD) and green in the same size. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978. Free UK mainland delivery.
Offices, meeting rooms and shared corridors are usually busy enough to look at already, so a board that adds no colour of its own is often the sensible choice, and grey is the shade that does that best. It reads as a plain, neutral backdrop, letting whatever is pinned to it take all the attention while the board quietly holds the wall, which is why grey tends to be the default when a space should look tidy rather than decorated. In a room where several people add their own notices through the week, a neutral board also stops the wall turning into a patchwork of competing colours.
Being the compact size in the range, this board fits a narrow run of wall, a spot beside a door or a gap between windows, and its plain finish means it can be moved to a different room later without ever looking wrong against new paint. A grey board bought for one office still suits the next, which makes it an easy long-term choice for a building where rooms get repainted or change use over the years. Buying one shade across a site also means any board can move between rooms without a mismatch, so spares and swaps are simple to manage.
Every part of the board was fire tested together as one composite, the grey felt, its backing and the aluminium frame, and the resulting classification to BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0 covers the finished item rather than a single treated layer. That whole-unit result is what allows an ordinary-looking grey board onto a corridor, a stairwell or another public route, the places where fire rules apply to everything fixed to the wall. Testing the finished item rather than the felt alone is what gives that assurance, since the frame and backing are part of the same certified result.
Push pins press cleanly into the grey felt and staples give a firmer hold for heavier sheets, while rounded corners and concealed fixings keep the whole thing smooth and free of anything sharp. A satin silver aluminium frame gives the neutral board a crisp edge without adding colour, and since Displaysense is the only stockist, the certified grey board stays specific to your own building. It can go up either portrait or landscape to suit the wall, and the fixings it needs are in the box, so a small, plain board is ready to use the same day it turns up.
What Ships in Your Pack
- 1 x fire-resistant grey felt aluminium-framed noticeboard
- 1 x set of wall fixings
Kitting Out a Whole Floor?
If you are fitting boards across a run of offices or meeting rooms, a single neutral shade keeps them all looking consistent. We can help you settle on sizes and confirm the fire rating suits each room.
Call 01279460460 or share your floor plan and we will plan the run with you.
The Displaysense NB4809GR is a compact fire-resistant grey felt aluminium-framed noticeboard. It is fire tested as a complete composite, not from flame-retardant parts alone, meeting BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0. The board measures 1200mm x 900mm and weighs 10kg. Its neutral grey felt recedes into a wall so the notices stand out, and it takes push pins and staples. A satin silver anodised aluminium frame surrounds the board, the corners are rounded for safety and the fixings are concealed. It hangs portrait or landscape, arrives with wall fixings and is for indoor use. It is a Displaysense exclusive. The plain grey suits offices, meeting rooms, reception areas, schools, healthcare sites and any wall where the board should not compete with the room around it. Also available in blue (NB4809BL), red (NB4809RD) and green in the same size. Displaysense, UK display product specialists since 1978. Free UK mainland delivery.
The full specification for the NB4809GR is set out below, the small grey board in the fire-rated felt range, certified across the whole finished unit rather than the felt alone. Kept to the Displaysense range and intended for indoor walls, it pairs a plain, neutral grey face with a satin silver anodised frame, concealed fixings, rounded safety corners and a surface that takes pins and staples, and blue, red and green fill out the same compact set.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Colour and Finish | Grey felt | A neutral shade that quietly sits back against any wall colour or scheme, so the notices pinned on it draw the eye first, rather than the board itself. |
| Fire Certification | BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0, tested as a composite | The rating belongs to the assembled board as a whole, so it can go on a corridor or shared route that has to comply as one item. |
| Surface | Fire-rated grey felt, takes pins and staples | Pins for a quick swap or staples for a firmer hold, both gripping a fire-rated felt surface that is made to resist the spread of fire. |
| Frame | Satin silver anodised aluminium | A thin anodised border that keeps corrosion off and outlines the neutral board crisply without introducing any colour. |
| Corners | Rounded safety corners, concealed fixings | No sharp edges and no visible hardware, which holds a flush, tidy face on a board that is meant to blend quietly into the wall. |
| Board Size | 1200mm x 900mm | A compact board that suits a narrow wall or a gap between two windows, hung whichever way round the space happens to allow. |
| Weight | 10kg | A modest weight, so a single person can usually manage the lift and the fixing to a solid wall without help or extra kit. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | Goes up upright or on its side, so a small grey board fits the shape of whatever stretch of bare wall you have to work with. |
| Fixings | Wall fixings included | The fixings come supplied in the box, so you simply match them to the wall type and get the board mounted straight away. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Built for inside walls in offices, schools and public buildings, and kept well away from rain, wind and damp. |
| Exclusivity | Exclusive to Displaysense | Sold by Displaysense only, so the grey board stays specific to your own building and easy to match up again later. |
| Also Available In | Blue, red and green in the same size | The same compact board in blue, red or green where a room calls for some colour. |
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Common Questions About Grey Fire-Rated Noticeboards
Q: What is the best neutral fire-rated noticeboard for an office or meeting room?
A: The best neutral fire-rated noticeboard for an office or meeting room is a compact grey felt board tested as one whole composite, to BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0. The plain grey recedes against any wall so the notices lead, the felt works with pins and staples, and the corners are rounded for safety.
Q: Why choose grey over a coloured board?
A: Grey adds no colour of its own, so it blends quietly against paint, panelling or a brand palette and leaves the notices to do the talking. It is the shade to reach for when you want the wall to look tidy and understated rather than make a colour statement of its own in the room.
Q: Will a grey board still look right if the room is repainted?
A: Yes, that is one of its strengths. Grey is the least likely of the shades to clash with a new wall colour, so a board bought for one scheme still suits the room after a repaint or a change of use, which makes it an easy, safe long-term choice for any building.
Q: Is the grey board fire-rated for corridors and public areas?
A: Yes. Its rating is BS 476 Class 0 (Parts 6 and 7) and BS EN 13501-1:2002 Class B-s1,d0, earned by testing the assembled board rather than its felt on its own. That whole-board result is what lets a plain grey display board go up in corridors, stairwells and shared routes bound by fire rules.
Q: How does the grey board compare to the green NB4809GN?
A: Both are the compact 1200 by 900 board, differing only in felt colour. Grey stays neutral and recedes into any wall, whereas the NB4809GN reads greener and warmer, which suits a classroom or care setting better. With the size, the frame and the fire rating all identical, the mood you want the colour to set is what really decides it.
Q: Does the grey felt take both pins and staples?
A: Yes to both. Everyday notices go up on push pins, while staples hold heavier or layered sheets more firmly, and the fire-rated grey felt is perfectly happy with either. Its fire rating has no bearing on how you work the noticeboard from one day to the next.
Q: How is the board fixed to the wall?
A: Wall fixings come in the box. Being small and fairly light, the board can normally be lifted and put up by one person against a solid wall, with fittings chosen to suit that wall. Once it is fixed, the hidden corner fixings leave the grey face flush and unbroken, with no visible hardware.
Q: Are the corners safe in a busy shared space?
A: Yes. The corners are rounded rather than square, which matters on a board fixed along a route people pass close to, and with the fixings hidden there is nothing sharp or raised. The result is a smooth, tidy edge all the way round, which suits a board that is meant to go quietly unnoticed on the wall.
Q: Can the wall board hang portrait or landscape?
A: Yes, either way up. Upright suits a narrow strip of wall while landscape fits a wider, lower gap, so the board can take whatever shape of space happens to be free. The usable area stays the same whichever orientation you choose.
Q: Does the noticeboard arrive ready to hang?
A: Yes, it turns up ready made. There is nothing to build first, so you simply pick the orientation, then offer the board up to the wall and fix it using the fittings in the box. That keeps a grey board quick and undisruptive to put up in a room that is already in use.
Q: Is this grey fire noticeboard exclusive to Displaysense?
A: Yes. This composite-certified grey board is sold through Displaysense alone, so it will not appear in a general office range. That keeps the certified boards around your building unique to your site, and makes adding a match, or another colour, simple as more rooms are done.
Q: Can a fire-rated felt board go outdoors?
A: No, it belongs indoors. Rain, wind and damp are more than grey felt and an aluminium frame can take, so its place is inside offices, corridors, meeting rooms and staff areas. The certification covers the way it behaves in an indoor fire and says nothing about coping with rain or the outdoors.
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