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Flexible Stone Series · MBBWB
Ripple Board Fluted Marble Panel
Marble, reeded. The flutes run about 18 mm apart and the veining ignores them completely, which is the only reason the combination works: a printed reed would have stopped the veins at every groove.
Technical data sheet, MBBWB (PDF, 0.6 MB)·Colour card, 106 surfaces in four series (PDF, 10.4 MB)
The base is a white marble with grey and green-grey veins, drawn at the scale of a Calacatta slab. Over that, the face is cut into shallow round-topped reeds. The veins run through the reeds and over the shoulders between them, so the light breaks along the flute and the vein continues regardless.
Two sizes: a 540 mm strip for columns and narrow returns, and 1150 × 3000 for walls. At 6 mm and 7.5 kg it is heavy for a flexible sheet, but the flute needs the depth, and the strip size means you can wrap a 500 mm column in four pieces with the joints on the shadow lines. The brief it usually lands in is a wave wall panel behind a reception desk or a bar, where the reeding has to run floor to ceiling in one length.
Veins do not stop at a groove
Look at the join between two reeds in the texture shot: the vein crosses the shoulder without a break in tone. That is the detail that separates a moulded face from a printed one, because a printer has to decide what happens to the image at the edge of the flute and almost always gets it wrong.
Bathroom, then bar
The bathroom is a 540 strip either side of a mirror, joints on the reed lines. The bar front is the wide sheet, cut so the veins run vertically and the flutes run with them, which is the harder setting out of the two and the one worth paying for.
Installed, ripple board
Good for
- Bathroom walls and vanity returns
- Bar fronts and reception desks where a stone look is wanted but a slab will not fit
- Columns, in the 540 strip, four pieces to a 500 mm column
- Lift interiors, where the flute hides the joint lines
Not for
- Kitchens behind a hob; the flutes hold grease
- Floors
- Any wall where the veins need to book-match across a joint
Wrapped, not cut
The bend shot is the 540 strip taken round a 300 mm radius. The reeds compress slightly on the inside of the curve, which is fine on a shadow line and noticeable on a lit corner, so put the bend where the light does not rake.
Bent by hand, no heat
White, and one grey
The card is short: a white with grey veining, a warmer white with gold-brown veining, and a grey marble with a soft cloud. Reeding a busy marble is a mistake, so the three on offer are all quiet stones.
Specification
Everything below applies to the Ripple Board as supplied. The PDF above is the same sheet we send out with a quote; ask for a printed copy and it travels with the sample.
| Sheet size | 540 × 2800 and 1150 × 3000 mm |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 6 mm ± 0.5 mm |
| Weight | 7.5 kg/m² ± 0.5 |
| Item code | MBBWB |
| Substrate | Mineral powder, sand and fibreglass, pressed in a steel mould |
| Fire | EN 13501-1 A2-s1,d0, on a non-combustible substrate |
| Fixing | Polymer adhesive, or mechanical fixings on a ventilated frame |
| MOQ | Stocked colours ship from stock, no minimum |
| Lead time | 3–5 days for stock, 20–25 days for production |
Fitting it
Four steps, and the third one is the one that goes wrong.
Questions we get asked
Is the fluting deep enough to feel?
About 2 mm. It reads as a flute from across a room and as a shallow groove under a finger, which is the right amount for a bathroom where a deeper reed would collect dust.
Can the reeds run horizontally?
Yes, and on a long low wall they should. Vertical reeds make a room feel taller; horizontal ones make it feel longer.
How do you clean between the reeds?
A vacuum brush and a damp cloth. The pitch is 18 mm, so a standard brush head reaches the bottom without a special tool.
Does it need sealing in a bathroom?
The face does not. The cut edges do, particularly at the bottom of a wall near a shower.
Sample of Ripple Board
A4 offcut, posted from Ningbo, free. Ask for the colour card too — it covers all thirty-seven surfaces in the series.
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