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Make Notices Impossible to Miss on a Red Fire Retardant Board
When a notice has to be seen the moment someone walks in, a strong red board pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety message or a looming deadline is caught and acted on right away rather than left to wait around. The felt behind that strong red meets fire rules for public buildings, its corners are rounded off rather than left sharp, and both pins and staples grip the felt so a printed page or a poster can go straight up in just seconds. This noticeboard is sold only through Displaysense. Best suited to schools, staff rooms and healthcare settings where a message has to be noticed at once and the board itself still has to pass all of its fire rules.
Why Rounded Corners Help a Red Board Fit a Busy Space
- Red that pulls the eye to the wall: The strong red felt stands out against paint, brick or a plain wall, so a board of safety notices, deadlines and alerts is spotted the second a person enters a room, and the message is read before anyone has a chance to walk straight past it unseen.
- Smooth rounded edges, no sharp points: Each corner is smoothed off rather than left square, so a board fixed at eye level in a crowded corridor is gentler on anyone passing close, and the hidden fixings keep the finish clean, flat and neat around the red felt.
- Fire-rated felt under the colour: Under the red, the fabric is finished and tested to known fire standards, so a board covered from top to bottom with paper still holds a school, an office or a clinic on the right side of the fire-safety rules that the particular building it hangs in must keep to.
- Holds pins and staples on an open face: Push in a pin or drive a staple straight onto the open red felt, so a single-page alert and a stapled multi-page notice each sit flat against the felt face and come away cleanly whenever the wall is changed over for a new week, a new event or a new term.
- Room for a full wall of urgent notices: The wide red face gathers rotas, warnings and bulletins into a single place, so a well-used area keeps its most-seen information gathered together and nobody has to hunt across a scattered, patchy stretch of wall to find the one thing they need.
- Mounts upright or on its side: Fix the board standing portrait for a tall gap or turned landscape across a wide run, using the kit supplied, so a narrow pillar beside a door or a broad stretch of corridor each gets the shape that best suits the notices going on show.
Where a Red Bulletin Board Stands Out in Busy Buildings
| Schools and Classrooms | Teaching walls take a red board that makes timetables, safety notices and reminders impossible to walk straight past them, the vivid felt keeping key messages in clear view for both pupils and staff while the rated surface meets the fire rules a school building has to follow. |
| Staff Rooms and Comms Points | Team areas gain a red board that flags rotas, alerts and must-read updates at a glance, the strong colour making sure that a shift change or an urgent note is caught the moment someone steps in for a quick tea break or a handover. |
| Healthcare and Clinics | Waiting areas and clinic corridors use a red board for guidance, safety signage and appointment notes, the bold shade drawing eyes to health messages quickly while the tested felt keeps a paper-heavy wall well inside the fire rules a care site has to keep. |
| Reception and Entrances | Front-of-house walls take a red board that greets people with directions and priority notices they simply cannot miss, the eye-catching colour setting an alert tone and the smoothed corners keeping a crowded entrance a little gentler to pass by. |
| Community and Public Spaces | Halls, libraries and civic buildings use a red board for event bulletins, warnings and public notices, the loud felt cutting through a crowded space and the certified surface keeping a shared, heavily used wall within the fire rules that space keeps. |
| Retail and Workplaces | Back rooms and shop floors take a red board for price alerts, policy notes and rotas, the high-visibility colour making sure staff catch a change at speed and the roomy face keeping a full week of notices tidy in one single spot. |
Need a Smaller Red Board?
When a full-size board is simply more wall than a space needs, this same fire retardant red felt is also made in a compact size. Take a look at the smaller red fire retardant noticeboard here, which ships with free UK mainland delivery.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Red is the first colour the eye lands on when someone scans a wall, so a notice pinned to this board is caught before a single word has even been read. In a well-used corridor or a crowded reception hall, that early pickup really matters, so a warning or a deadline is spotted quickly and acted on rather than lost in the rush of people passing through. Black print stays sharp against it, so the colour draws the eye without making the words themselves any harder to take in.
Fire performance sits under that colour, because the felt itself carries a finish that resists ignition and checks the spread of flame, taking it to the two marks BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 in the B-s1, d0 band. A board loaded with paper in a school, an office or another public building must satisfy both of those rules before going up on the wall. Here that testing comes built into the felt, so a loud, well-used board still stays inside the fire rules that particular room has to keep.
An open felt face holds a whole wall of notices at once, with the warnings, rotas and bulletins all sitting neatly side by side together in one single, shared spot. Pins and staples both press straight into the red surface, with no glass or door in the way, so a lone alert and a thick stapled pack each lie flush on the red. A full seven days of material can share the board together, and a single sheet lifts off then swaps over in moments.
Rounding off the corners is a small touch that matters on a board fixed where people pass close by, since a curved corner is gentler than a square one, and the fixing behind each corner stays hidden away under the frame. That surrounding frame is satin silver anodised aluminium, the board hangs in portrait or landscape from the kit supplied, it is meant for indoor rooms only, and it is sold only through Displaysense. The same fire-rated board is offered in blue, green and grey at this size, along with free UK mainland delivery and a 28-day returns window.
What Arrives in the Box
- 1 x red fire retardant felt noticeboard set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame with rounded corners
- 1 x wall mounting kit with hidden corner fixings
Prefer a Colour That Blends In?
If the wall would suit a quieter shade than a bright red, the same board comes in grey at this size. Red pulls the eye to an urgent notice, while grey sits back and lets the room stay neutral, so the pick follows the job the wall has to do. Our team is happy to advise.
Call us on 01279 460460 or view the grey fire retardant noticeboard.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Set out below is the full specification for the NB4815RD red fire retardant noticeboard. The five boxes at the top flag the headline points, and each following row lists a detail next to a short line on what that detail means for you on a bold, high-visibility red wall. Read down through the fire rating and the size first, then on to the felt, the aluminium frame, the rounded corners and the wall fixings right at the end.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Red open fire retardant felt noticeboard | A wide, open felt board in a high-visibility red that holds a full wall of notices at once, and still stays fire-safe for use in a public room. |
| Colour | Red | A bright red pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update gets caught the very moment that someone enters the room. |
| Fire rating | BS 476 Class 0, BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) | Two named fire ratings mean the red felt can hold a full load of paper and still leave the room it hangs in well inside its fire cover. |
| Size | 1500mm x 1200mm | A broad display area that gathers a full week of urgent notices together into one spot and covers a large stretch of otherwise bare, hard wall. |
| Weight | 18kg | A solid board best carried and squared up by two people together, then left sitting flat and firm once all of the fixings are home. |
| Surface | Red felt, holds pins and staples | The open felt grips both pins and staples right across a wide face, so alerts, rotas and bulletins go up and come down again fast. |
| Corners | Rounded, no sharp edges | Rounded corners are kinder on anyone passing a board fixed at eye level in a well-used corridor or a crowded, busy front entrance. |
| Corner fixings | Hidden behind the frame | Each corner fixing tucks fully out of sight, so no screw heads are shown on a bold board mounted where staff and visitors walk past. |
| Frame | Satin silver anodised aluminium | A slim satin silver frame sets a clean, level edge that frames and lifts the red felt, suiting a corridor, a reception or a classroom wall. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | Hang the red board upright for a portrait layout or on its side for landscape to match the space, with the kit handling both orientations. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Built for indoor walls in classrooms, staff rooms, clinics and public halls, and not for damp, wet or weather-exposed outdoor spots. |
| Exclusivity | Available only from Displaysense | Stocked through Displaysense and no other retailer, which keeps this bold red board a genuinely distinct pick for a busy site. |
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
3 to 5 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders typically ship within 1 to 2 working days of placement
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
Questions About This Red Fire Retardant Noticeboard
Getting the Most From a High-Visibility Notice Wall
A red board does its job when the content works as hard as the shade, so what goes on the wall matters as much as the board itself does in the end. These Displaysense guides cover why fire-rated felt really matters in a school, keeping safeguarding messages clearly on show, holding attention along a busy corridor, and using a bold display to keep pupils engaged and well informed right across the whole year.
Overview
Make Notices Impossible to Miss on a Red Fire Retardant Board
When a notice has to be seen the moment someone walks in, a strong red board pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety message or a looming deadline is caught and acted on right away rather than left to wait around. The felt behind that strong red meets fire rules for public buildings, its corners are rounded off rather than left sharp, and both pins and staples grip the felt so a printed page or a poster can go straight up in just seconds. This noticeboard is sold only through Displaysense. Best suited to schools, staff rooms and healthcare settings where a message has to be noticed at once and the board itself still has to pass all of its fire rules.
Why Rounded Corners Help a Red Board Fit a Busy Space
- Red that pulls the eye to the wall: The strong red felt stands out against paint, brick or a plain wall, so a board of safety notices, deadlines and alerts is spotted the second a person enters a room, and the message is read before anyone has a chance to walk straight past it unseen.
- Smooth rounded edges, no sharp points: Each corner is smoothed off rather than left square, so a board fixed at eye level in a crowded corridor is gentler on anyone passing close, and the hidden fixings keep the finish clean, flat and neat around the red felt.
- Fire-rated felt under the colour: Under the red, the fabric is finished and tested to known fire standards, so a board covered from top to bottom with paper still holds a school, an office or a clinic on the right side of the fire-safety rules that the particular building it hangs in must keep to.
- Holds pins and staples on an open face: Push in a pin or drive a staple straight onto the open red felt, so a single-page alert and a stapled multi-page notice each sit flat against the felt face and come away cleanly whenever the wall is changed over for a new week, a new event or a new term.
- Room for a full wall of urgent notices: The wide red face gathers rotas, warnings and bulletins into a single place, so a well-used area keeps its most-seen information gathered together and nobody has to hunt across a scattered, patchy stretch of wall to find the one thing they need.
- Mounts upright or on its side: Fix the board standing portrait for a tall gap or turned landscape across a wide run, using the kit supplied, so a narrow pillar beside a door or a broad stretch of corridor each gets the shape that best suits the notices going on show.
Where a Red Bulletin Board Stands Out in Busy Buildings
| Schools and Classrooms | Teaching walls take a red board that makes timetables, safety notices and reminders impossible to walk straight past them, the vivid felt keeping key messages in clear view for both pupils and staff while the rated surface meets the fire rules a school building has to follow. |
| Staff Rooms and Comms Points | Team areas gain a red board that flags rotas, alerts and must-read updates at a glance, the strong colour making sure that a shift change or an urgent note is caught the moment someone steps in for a quick tea break or a handover. |
| Healthcare and Clinics | Waiting areas and clinic corridors use a red board for guidance, safety signage and appointment notes, the bold shade drawing eyes to health messages quickly while the tested felt keeps a paper-heavy wall well inside the fire rules a care site has to keep. |
| Reception and Entrances | Front-of-house walls take a red board that greets people with directions and priority notices they simply cannot miss, the eye-catching colour setting an alert tone and the smoothed corners keeping a crowded entrance a little gentler to pass by. |
| Community and Public Spaces | Halls, libraries and civic buildings use a red board for event bulletins, warnings and public notices, the loud felt cutting through a crowded space and the certified surface keeping a shared, heavily used wall within the fire rules that space keeps. |
| Retail and Workplaces | Back rooms and shop floors take a red board for price alerts, policy notes and rotas, the high-visibility colour making sure staff catch a change at speed and the roomy face keeping a full week of notices tidy in one single spot. |
Need a Smaller Red Board?
When a full-size board is simply more wall than a space needs, this same fire retardant red felt is also made in a compact size. Take a look at the smaller red fire retardant noticeboard here, which ships with free UK mainland delivery.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Description
Red is the first colour the eye lands on when someone scans a wall, so a notice pinned to this board is caught before a single word has even been read. In a well-used corridor or a crowded reception hall, that early pickup really matters, so a warning or a deadline is spotted quickly and acted on rather than lost in the rush of people passing through. Black print stays sharp against it, so the colour draws the eye without making the words themselves any harder to take in.
Fire performance sits under that colour, because the felt itself carries a finish that resists ignition and checks the spread of flame, taking it to the two marks BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 in the B-s1, d0 band. A board loaded with paper in a school, an office or another public building must satisfy both of those rules before going up on the wall. Here that testing comes built into the felt, so a loud, well-used board still stays inside the fire rules that particular room has to keep.
An open felt face holds a whole wall of notices at once, with the warnings, rotas and bulletins all sitting neatly side by side together in one single, shared spot. Pins and staples both press straight into the red surface, with no glass or door in the way, so a lone alert and a thick stapled pack each lie flush on the red. A full seven days of material can share the board together, and a single sheet lifts off then swaps over in moments.
Rounding off the corners is a small touch that matters on a board fixed where people pass close by, since a curved corner is gentler than a square one, and the fixing behind each corner stays hidden away under the frame. That surrounding frame is satin silver anodised aluminium, the board hangs in portrait or landscape from the kit supplied, it is meant for indoor rooms only, and it is sold only through Displaysense. The same fire-rated board is offered in blue, green and grey at this size, along with free UK mainland delivery and a 28-day returns window.
What Arrives in the Box
- 1 x red fire retardant felt noticeboard set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame with rounded corners
- 1 x wall mounting kit with hidden corner fixings
Prefer a Colour That Blends In?
If the wall would suit a quieter shade than a bright red, the same board comes in grey at this size. Red pulls the eye to an urgent notice, while grey sits back and lets the room stay neutral, so the pick follows the job the wall has to do. Our team is happy to advise.
Call us on 01279 460460 or view the grey fire retardant noticeboard.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Specifications
Set out below is the full specification for the NB4815RD red fire retardant noticeboard. The five boxes at the top flag the headline points, and each following row lists a detail next to a short line on what that detail means for you on a bold, high-visibility red wall. Read down through the fire rating and the size first, then on to the felt, the aluminium frame, the rounded corners and the wall fixings right at the end.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Red open fire retardant felt noticeboard | A wide, open felt board in a high-visibility red that holds a full wall of notices at once, and still stays fire-safe for use in a public room. |
| Colour | Red | A bright red pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update gets caught the very moment that someone enters the room. |
| Fire rating | BS 476 Class 0, BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) | Two named fire ratings mean the red felt can hold a full load of paper and still leave the room it hangs in well inside its fire cover. |
| Size | 1500mm x 1200mm | A broad display area that gathers a full week of urgent notices together into one spot and covers a large stretch of otherwise bare, hard wall. |
| Weight | 18kg | A solid board best carried and squared up by two people together, then left sitting flat and firm once all of the fixings are home. |
| Surface | Red felt, holds pins and staples | The open felt grips both pins and staples right across a wide face, so alerts, rotas and bulletins go up and come down again fast. |
| Corners | Rounded, no sharp edges | Rounded corners are kinder on anyone passing a board fixed at eye level in a well-used corridor or a crowded, busy front entrance. |
| Corner fixings | Hidden behind the frame | Each corner fixing tucks fully out of sight, so no screw heads are shown on a bold board mounted where staff and visitors walk past. |
| Frame | Satin silver anodised aluminium | A slim satin silver frame sets a clean, level edge that frames and lifts the red felt, suiting a corridor, a reception or a classroom wall. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | Hang the red board upright for a portrait layout or on its side for landscape to match the space, with the kit handling both orientations. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Built for indoor walls in classrooms, staff rooms, clinics and public halls, and not for damp, wet or weather-exposed outdoor spots. |
| Exclusivity | Available only from Displaysense | Stocked through Displaysense and no other retailer, which keeps this bold red board a genuinely distinct pick for a busy site. |
Delivery & Returns
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
3 to 5 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders typically ship within 1 to 2 working days of placement
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
FAQs
Questions About This Red Fire Retardant Noticeboard
Knowledge Hub
Getting the Most From a High-Visibility Notice Wall
A red board does its job when the content works as hard as the shade, so what goes on the wall matters as much as the board itself does in the end. These Displaysense guides cover why fire-rated felt really matters in a school, keeping safeguarding messages clearly on show, holding attention along a busy corridor, and using a bold display to keep pupils engaged and well informed right across the whole year.
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Overview
Description
Specifications
Delivery & Returns
FAQs
Knowledge Hub
Make Notices Impossible to Miss on a Red Fire Retardant Board
When a notice has to be seen the moment someone walks in, a strong red board pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety message or a looming deadline is caught and acted on right away rather than left to wait around. The felt behind that strong red meets fire rules for public buildings, its corners are rounded off rather than left sharp, and both pins and staples grip the felt so a printed page or a poster can go straight up in just seconds. This noticeboard is sold only through Displaysense. Best suited to schools, staff rooms and healthcare settings where a message has to be noticed at once and the board itself still has to pass all of its fire rules.
Why Rounded Corners Help a Red Board Fit a Busy Space
- Red that pulls the eye to the wall: The strong red felt stands out against paint, brick or a plain wall, so a board of safety notices, deadlines and alerts is spotted the second a person enters a room, and the message is read before anyone has a chance to walk straight past it unseen.
- Smooth rounded edges, no sharp points: Each corner is smoothed off rather than left square, so a board fixed at eye level in a crowded corridor is gentler on anyone passing close, and the hidden fixings keep the finish clean, flat and neat around the red felt.
- Fire-rated felt under the colour: Under the red, the fabric is finished and tested to known fire standards, so a board covered from top to bottom with paper still holds a school, an office or a clinic on the right side of the fire-safety rules that the particular building it hangs in must keep to.
- Holds pins and staples on an open face: Push in a pin or drive a staple straight onto the open red felt, so a single-page alert and a stapled multi-page notice each sit flat against the felt face and come away cleanly whenever the wall is changed over for a new week, a new event or a new term.
- Room for a full wall of urgent notices: The wide red face gathers rotas, warnings and bulletins into a single place, so a well-used area keeps its most-seen information gathered together and nobody has to hunt across a scattered, patchy stretch of wall to find the one thing they need.
- Mounts upright or on its side: Fix the board standing portrait for a tall gap or turned landscape across a wide run, using the kit supplied, so a narrow pillar beside a door or a broad stretch of corridor each gets the shape that best suits the notices going on show.
Where a Red Bulletin Board Stands Out in Busy Buildings
| Schools and Classrooms | Teaching walls take a red board that makes timetables, safety notices and reminders impossible to walk straight past them, the vivid felt keeping key messages in clear view for both pupils and staff while the rated surface meets the fire rules a school building has to follow. |
| Staff Rooms and Comms Points | Team areas gain a red board that flags rotas, alerts and must-read updates at a glance, the strong colour making sure that a shift change or an urgent note is caught the moment someone steps in for a quick tea break or a handover. |
| Healthcare and Clinics | Waiting areas and clinic corridors use a red board for guidance, safety signage and appointment notes, the bold shade drawing eyes to health messages quickly while the tested felt keeps a paper-heavy wall well inside the fire rules a care site has to keep. |
| Reception and Entrances | Front-of-house walls take a red board that greets people with directions and priority notices they simply cannot miss, the eye-catching colour setting an alert tone and the smoothed corners keeping a crowded entrance a little gentler to pass by. |
| Community and Public Spaces | Halls, libraries and civic buildings use a red board for event bulletins, warnings and public notices, the loud felt cutting through a crowded space and the certified surface keeping a shared, heavily used wall within the fire rules that space keeps. |
| Retail and Workplaces | Back rooms and shop floors take a red board for price alerts, policy notes and rotas, the high-visibility colour making sure staff catch a change at speed and the roomy face keeping a full week of notices tidy in one single spot. |
Need a Smaller Red Board?
When a full-size board is simply more wall than a space needs, this same fire retardant red felt is also made in a compact size. Take a look at the smaller red fire retardant noticeboard here, which ships with free UK mainland delivery.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Red is the first colour the eye lands on when someone scans a wall, so a notice pinned to this board is caught before a single word has even been read. In a well-used corridor or a crowded reception hall, that early pickup really matters, so a warning or a deadline is spotted quickly and acted on rather than lost in the rush of people passing through. Black print stays sharp against it, so the colour draws the eye without making the words themselves any harder to take in.
Fire performance sits under that colour, because the felt itself carries a finish that resists ignition and checks the spread of flame, taking it to the two marks BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 in the B-s1, d0 band. A board loaded with paper in a school, an office or another public building must satisfy both of those rules before going up on the wall. Here that testing comes built into the felt, so a loud, well-used board still stays inside the fire rules that particular room has to keep.
An open felt face holds a whole wall of notices at once, with the warnings, rotas and bulletins all sitting neatly side by side together in one single, shared spot. Pins and staples both press straight into the red surface, with no glass or door in the way, so a lone alert and a thick stapled pack each lie flush on the red. A full seven days of material can share the board together, and a single sheet lifts off then swaps over in moments.
Rounding off the corners is a small touch that matters on a board fixed where people pass close by, since a curved corner is gentler than a square one, and the fixing behind each corner stays hidden away under the frame. That surrounding frame is satin silver anodised aluminium, the board hangs in portrait or landscape from the kit supplied, it is meant for indoor rooms only, and it is sold only through Displaysense. The same fire-rated board is offered in blue, green and grey at this size, along with free UK mainland delivery and a 28-day returns window.
What Arrives in the Box
- 1 x red fire retardant felt noticeboard set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame with rounded corners
- 1 x wall mounting kit with hidden corner fixings
Prefer a Colour That Blends In?
If the wall would suit a quieter shade than a bright red, the same board comes in grey at this size. Red pulls the eye to an urgent notice, while grey sits back and lets the room stay neutral, so the pick follows the job the wall has to do. Our team is happy to advise.
Call us on 01279 460460 or view the grey fire retardant noticeboard.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Set out below is the full specification for the NB4815RD red fire retardant noticeboard. The five boxes at the top flag the headline points, and each following row lists a detail next to a short line on what that detail means for you on a bold, high-visibility red wall. Read down through the fire rating and the size first, then on to the felt, the aluminium frame, the rounded corners and the wall fixings right at the end.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Red open fire retardant felt noticeboard | A wide, open felt board in a high-visibility red that holds a full wall of notices at once, and still stays fire-safe for use in a public room. |
| Colour | Red | A bright red pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update gets caught the very moment that someone enters the room. |
| Fire rating | BS 476 Class 0, BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) | Two named fire ratings mean the red felt can hold a full load of paper and still leave the room it hangs in well inside its fire cover. |
| Size | 1500mm x 1200mm | A broad display area that gathers a full week of urgent notices together into one spot and covers a large stretch of otherwise bare, hard wall. |
| Weight | 18kg | A solid board best carried and squared up by two people together, then left sitting flat and firm once all of the fixings are home. |
| Surface | Red felt, holds pins and staples | The open felt grips both pins and staples right across a wide face, so alerts, rotas and bulletins go up and come down again fast. |
| Corners | Rounded, no sharp edges | Rounded corners are kinder on anyone passing a board fixed at eye level in a well-used corridor or a crowded, busy front entrance. |
| Corner fixings | Hidden behind the frame | Each corner fixing tucks fully out of sight, so no screw heads are shown on a bold board mounted where staff and visitors walk past. |
| Frame | Satin silver anodised aluminium | A slim satin silver frame sets a clean, level edge that frames and lifts the red felt, suiting a corridor, a reception or a classroom wall. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | Hang the red board upright for a portrait layout or on its side for landscape to match the space, with the kit handling both orientations. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Built for indoor walls in classrooms, staff rooms, clinics and public halls, and not for damp, wet or weather-exposed outdoor spots. |
| Exclusivity | Available only from Displaysense | Stocked through Displaysense and no other retailer, which keeps this bold red board a genuinely distinct pick for a busy site. |
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
3 to 5 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders typically ship within 1 to 2 working days of placement
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
Questions About This Red Fire Retardant Noticeboard
Getting the Most From a High-Visibility Notice Wall
A red board does its job when the content works as hard as the shade, so what goes on the wall matters as much as the board itself does in the end. These Displaysense guides cover why fire-rated felt really matters in a school, keeping safeguarding messages clearly on show, holding attention along a busy corridor, and using a bold display to keep pupils engaged and well informed right across the whole year.
Overview
Make Notices Impossible to Miss on a Red Fire Retardant Board
When a notice has to be seen the moment someone walks in, a strong red board pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety message or a looming deadline is caught and acted on right away rather than left to wait around. The felt behind that strong red meets fire rules for public buildings, its corners are rounded off rather than left sharp, and both pins and staples grip the felt so a printed page or a poster can go straight up in just seconds. This noticeboard is sold only through Displaysense. Best suited to schools, staff rooms and healthcare settings where a message has to be noticed at once and the board itself still has to pass all of its fire rules.
Why Rounded Corners Help a Red Board Fit a Busy Space
- Red that pulls the eye to the wall: The strong red felt stands out against paint, brick or a plain wall, so a board of safety notices, deadlines and alerts is spotted the second a person enters a room, and the message is read before anyone has a chance to walk straight past it unseen.
- Smooth rounded edges, no sharp points: Each corner is smoothed off rather than left square, so a board fixed at eye level in a crowded corridor is gentler on anyone passing close, and the hidden fixings keep the finish clean, flat and neat around the red felt.
- Fire-rated felt under the colour: Under the red, the fabric is finished and tested to known fire standards, so a board covered from top to bottom with paper still holds a school, an office or a clinic on the right side of the fire-safety rules that the particular building it hangs in must keep to.
- Holds pins and staples on an open face: Push in a pin or drive a staple straight onto the open red felt, so a single-page alert and a stapled multi-page notice each sit flat against the felt face and come away cleanly whenever the wall is changed over for a new week, a new event or a new term.
- Room for a full wall of urgent notices: The wide red face gathers rotas, warnings and bulletins into a single place, so a well-used area keeps its most-seen information gathered together and nobody has to hunt across a scattered, patchy stretch of wall to find the one thing they need.
- Mounts upright or on its side: Fix the board standing portrait for a tall gap or turned landscape across a wide run, using the kit supplied, so a narrow pillar beside a door or a broad stretch of corridor each gets the shape that best suits the notices going on show.
Where a Red Bulletin Board Stands Out in Busy Buildings
| Schools and Classrooms | Teaching walls take a red board that makes timetables, safety notices and reminders impossible to walk straight past them, the vivid felt keeping key messages in clear view for both pupils and staff while the rated surface meets the fire rules a school building has to follow. |
| Staff Rooms and Comms Points | Team areas gain a red board that flags rotas, alerts and must-read updates at a glance, the strong colour making sure that a shift change or an urgent note is caught the moment someone steps in for a quick tea break or a handover. |
| Healthcare and Clinics | Waiting areas and clinic corridors use a red board for guidance, safety signage and appointment notes, the bold shade drawing eyes to health messages quickly while the tested felt keeps a paper-heavy wall well inside the fire rules a care site has to keep. |
| Reception and Entrances | Front-of-house walls take a red board that greets people with directions and priority notices they simply cannot miss, the eye-catching colour setting an alert tone and the smoothed corners keeping a crowded entrance a little gentler to pass by. |
| Community and Public Spaces | Halls, libraries and civic buildings use a red board for event bulletins, warnings and public notices, the loud felt cutting through a crowded space and the certified surface keeping a shared, heavily used wall within the fire rules that space keeps. |
| Retail and Workplaces | Back rooms and shop floors take a red board for price alerts, policy notes and rotas, the high-visibility colour making sure staff catch a change at speed and the roomy face keeping a full week of notices tidy in one single spot. |
Need a Smaller Red Board?
When a full-size board is simply more wall than a space needs, this same fire retardant red felt is also made in a compact size. Take a look at the smaller red fire retardant noticeboard here, which ships with free UK mainland delivery.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Description
Red is the first colour the eye lands on when someone scans a wall, so a notice pinned to this board is caught before a single word has even been read. In a well-used corridor or a crowded reception hall, that early pickup really matters, so a warning or a deadline is spotted quickly and acted on rather than lost in the rush of people passing through. Black print stays sharp against it, so the colour draws the eye without making the words themselves any harder to take in.
Fire performance sits under that colour, because the felt itself carries a finish that resists ignition and checks the spread of flame, taking it to the two marks BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 in the B-s1, d0 band. A board loaded with paper in a school, an office or another public building must satisfy both of those rules before going up on the wall. Here that testing comes built into the felt, so a loud, well-used board still stays inside the fire rules that particular room has to keep.
An open felt face holds a whole wall of notices at once, with the warnings, rotas and bulletins all sitting neatly side by side together in one single, shared spot. Pins and staples both press straight into the red surface, with no glass or door in the way, so a lone alert and a thick stapled pack each lie flush on the red. A full seven days of material can share the board together, and a single sheet lifts off then swaps over in moments.
Rounding off the corners is a small touch that matters on a board fixed where people pass close by, since a curved corner is gentler than a square one, and the fixing behind each corner stays hidden away under the frame. That surrounding frame is satin silver anodised aluminium, the board hangs in portrait or landscape from the kit supplied, it is meant for indoor rooms only, and it is sold only through Displaysense. The same fire-rated board is offered in blue, green and grey at this size, along with free UK mainland delivery and a 28-day returns window.
What Arrives in the Box
- 1 x red fire retardant felt noticeboard set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame with rounded corners
- 1 x wall mounting kit with hidden corner fixings
Prefer a Colour That Blends In?
If the wall would suit a quieter shade than a bright red, the same board comes in grey at this size. Red pulls the eye to an urgent notice, while grey sits back and lets the room stay neutral, so the pick follows the job the wall has to do. Our team is happy to advise.
Call us on 01279 460460 or view the grey fire retardant noticeboard.
NB4815RD is a Fire Retardant Red Felt Aluminium Framed Noticeboard from Displaysense. Its bright red felt pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update is seen fast in a busy room. The felt passes fire standards BS 476 Class 0 and BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) for buildings the public uses. Height 1500mm, width 1200mm. Weight 18kg. An open red felt face holds pins and staples, framed in satin silver anodised aluminium with smooth rounded corners and hidden corner fixings. The board has no locking door of any kind. It goes on a wall in portrait or landscape using the supplied kit, indoors only. Picked by schools, staff rooms, health centres and workplace communication points that want a big, fire-safe board people notice at once. Sold only through Displaysense, and the same board is made in blue, green and grey at this size, plus larger and smaller sizes. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978. Free UK delivery.
Specifications
Set out below is the full specification for the NB4815RD red fire retardant noticeboard. The five boxes at the top flag the headline points, and each following row lists a detail next to a short line on what that detail means for you on a bold, high-visibility red wall. Read down through the fire rating and the size first, then on to the felt, the aluminium frame, the rounded corners and the wall fixings right at the end.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Red open fire retardant felt noticeboard | A wide, open felt board in a high-visibility red that holds a full wall of notices at once, and still stays fire-safe for use in a public room. |
| Colour | Red | A bright red pulls the eye straight to the wall, so a safety notice or an urgent update gets caught the very moment that someone enters the room. |
| Fire rating | BS 476 Class 0, BS-EN 13501-1 (B-s1, d0) | Two named fire ratings mean the red felt can hold a full load of paper and still leave the room it hangs in well inside its fire cover. |
| Size | 1500mm x 1200mm | A broad display area that gathers a full week of urgent notices together into one spot and covers a large stretch of otherwise bare, hard wall. |
| Weight | 18kg | A solid board best carried and squared up by two people together, then left sitting flat and firm once all of the fixings are home. |
| Surface | Red felt, holds pins and staples | The open felt grips both pins and staples right across a wide face, so alerts, rotas and bulletins go up and come down again fast. |
| Corners | Rounded, no sharp edges | Rounded corners are kinder on anyone passing a board fixed at eye level in a well-used corridor or a crowded, busy front entrance. |
| Corner fixings | Hidden behind the frame | Each corner fixing tucks fully out of sight, so no screw heads are shown on a bold board mounted where staff and visitors walk past. |
| Frame | Satin silver anodised aluminium | A slim satin silver frame sets a clean, level edge that frames and lifts the red felt, suiting a corridor, a reception or a classroom wall. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | Hang the red board upright for a portrait layout or on its side for landscape to match the space, with the kit handling both orientations. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Built for indoor walls in classrooms, staff rooms, clinics and public halls, and not for damp, wet or weather-exposed outdoor spots. |
| Exclusivity | Available only from Displaysense | Stocked through Displaysense and no other retailer, which keeps this bold red board a genuinely distinct pick for a busy site. |
Delivery & Returns
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
3 to 5 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders typically ship within 1 to 2 working days of placement
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
FAQs
Questions About This Red Fire Retardant Noticeboard
Knowledge Hub
Getting the Most From a High-Visibility Notice Wall
A red board does its job when the content works as hard as the shade, so what goes on the wall matters as much as the board itself does in the end. These Displaysense guides cover why fire-rated felt really matters in a school, keeping safeguarding messages clearly on show, holding attention along a busy corridor, and using a bold display to keep pupils engaged and well informed right across the whole year.
