No building work
Works with your existing office, walls, and ceilings
1–2 days
Typical installation, outside business hours if needed
Self-install option
DIY kit with instructions and calibration app included
Documented result
Written performance report on every commissioned install
Speech leaves the room. The question is whether it remains intelligible on the other side, and in standard commercial offices, behind stud partitions and especially glass, it almost always does. Closing the door helps; it does not solve it.
The gap between how private an office looks and how private it actually is is the problem acoustic masking addresses.
Masking does not change the wall. It changes what the listener hears on the other side of it.
Compact maskers fitted in the ceiling of the receiving space (the corridor or adjacent area) produce a calibrated broadband signal tuned to speech frequencies. At roughly 45–48 dB(A) the masking pushes overheard speech below the threshold of intelligibility.
People inside the room are unaffected; people working outside it stop registering the masking within a few hours, and most visitors never notice it at all.
DIY kit
Electrician
We supply the full kit and detailed installation instructions. Any competent electrician or hands-on person can complete the job; no acoustic specialism needed. Calibrate yourself with the app afterwards.
Full Service
We survey, supply, install, and calibrate. Typically one to two days on site. Includes a written commissioning report confirming the privacy classification achieved in each zone.
Two meeting rooms sharing a partition, with masking in the corridor outside. Here is what acoustic masking costs to deliver speech privacy on this layout, alongside the construction work that would otherwise be required.
£1,410 ex‑VAT
approx. £14,000
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