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Decorative perforated aluminium sheet from Gooding Aluminium — a curated collection of non-standard perforation designs that sit outside the conventional round, square, hexagonal, and slotted categories. These sheets use distinctive hole geometries and arrangements to create surfaces with a stronger visual identity than standard perforations: chevron and herringbone slot formations, cloverleaf and cross-shaped apertures, decorative grain-effect textures, and uniquely shaped punches that give each sheet a character of its own. Open areas range from 20% to 46% across the collection, with hole sizes from compact 10.0 x 6.0mm patterns through to bold 80.0 x 25.0mm formations.
All sheets are manufactured to order and dispatched within 2–5 working days on an overnight delivery service.
| Perforation Patterns | Non-standard decorative designs — chevron, herringbone, cloverleaf, cross, grain-effect, and shaped apertures |
| Also Known As | Designer perforated sheet, ornamental perforated aluminium, patterned perforated panel, special pattern perforated sheet |
| Pitch Layouts | Staggered and Parallel (varies by pattern) |
| Hole Sizes Available | 10.0 x 6.0mm, 10.0 x 10.0mm, 12.0 x 5.0mm, 17.0mm, 80.0 x 15.0mm, 80.0 x 25.0mm |
| Open Area Range | 20% to 46% |
| Sheet Size | 2000mm x 1000mm, 2500mm x 1250mm & Custom Sizes |
| Material Thickness | 1.2mm & 2.0mm |
| Material | Aluminium |
| Surface Finish | Mill (untreated) |
| Dispatch | Normally 2–5 working days |
| Delivery | Overnight nationwide service |
| Custom Options | Bespoke sizing, plain borders, fixing holes, folded edges, anodised and powder coat finishes available — contact sales@goodingalum.com |
| Bespoke Patterns | GA can sometimes produce entirely bespoke perforation patterns to your design — contact sales@goodingalum.com with your requirements. |
Sheets are normally dispatched within 2–5 working days. Delivery is via an overnight nationwide service.
Yes. All sheets in the decorative range can be supplied with a polyester powder coat finish applied after perforation. Finishes are available within a few days of order. Contact sales@goodingalum.com with your colour and finish requirements.
Normally, we can produce specially sized panels with plain borders, and fixing holes, if required, within a few days.
Decorative perforated aluminium sheet uses non-standard hole shapes and arrangements that fall outside the conventional round, square, hexagonal, and slot categories. The patterns in this collection include chevron and herringbone slot formations, cloverleaf and cross-shaped apertures, grain-effect textures, and uniquely shaped punches. They are designed to create surfaces with a stronger visual character than standard geometric perforations, making the sheet a visible design element rather than a concealed functional component.
Standard perforated sheets use a single, uniform hole shape repeated across the surface in a regular grid. Decorative perforated sheets break from this convention by using non-standard hole geometries, alternating orientations, or compound arrangements where the visual effect depends on how the holes interact with each other rather than on the individual hole shape alone. The result is a more complex surface texture that reads as a deliberate design statement rather than a simple array of openings.
Sometimes, yes. Gooding Aluminium has in-house perforation capability and can discuss bespoke patterns, but the feasibility depends on the specific design. Some geometries require custom tooling, which affects lead time and cost. Contact sales@goodingalum.com with your preferred design and the team will advise on what is achievable.
Open areas across the decorative collection range from 20% to 46%. The large-format chevron and herringbone formations (80mm slots) sit at the lower end (20–22%), providing strong visual opacity with a bold directional pattern. The compact cross and cloverleaf designs (10mm apertures) sit at the higher end (43–46%), delivering greater light and airflow transmission through a more intricate surface texture.
The standard perforated sheet categories — round holes, square holes, hexagonal holes, and slots — each use a single, regular hole shape repeated uniformly across the sheet. They are selected primarily for their functional properties: open area percentage, airflow characteristics, acoustic behaviour, and structural efficiency. The hole geometry serves the engineering requirement first, and the visual effect follows from that.
The decorative perforated sheet collection inverts that priority. These sheets are selected because of how they look. The perforation designs in this range use non-standard hole shapes, alternating orientations, and compound arrangements that create surface textures with a recognisable visual character — herringbone directional rhythms, cloverleaf repeats, cross formations, grain-effect fields, and boldly scaled chevron patterns. Each design reads as a deliberate surface treatment rather than a simple array of holes.
This does not mean the sheets lack functional capability. Open areas range from 20% to 46%, so ventilation, light transmission, and acoustic properties are all present. But the primary selection criterion for decorative perforated aluminium sheet is the pattern itself — its visual weight, its scale, and the way it transforms the character of the surface it is applied to.
The collection divides naturally into two groups based on the physical scale of the pattern, and the distinction matters because the two groups serve quite different visual purposes.
The compact patterns use hole sizes in the 10–17mm range. These include cross-shaped and cloverleaf apertures at 10.0 x 6.0mm and 10.0 x 10.0mm, a decorative grain-effect texture at 12.0 x 5.0mm, and a uniquely shaped 17.0mm punch. At this scale, the individual holes are visible up close but blend into a unified surface texture when viewed from a few metres away. Open areas are relatively high (24–46%), so the sheets transmit a good amount of light and air while presenting an intricate, detailed surface. These suit close-viewing applications: wall-mounted feature panels, reception area screening, furniture inserts, display cabinetry, and interior cladding where the subtlety of the pattern rewards closer inspection.
The large-format patterns use 80mm slot formations arranged in chevron and herringbone configurations. These are emphatically visible — the individual slots and their directional arrangement are clearly readable from a distance, producing a bold, graphic effect across the sheet surface. Open areas are lower (20–22%), making these sheets more opaque and more effective at visual screening. They suit larger-scale applications where the pattern needs to command attention across a wider area: external screening panels, large-format wall cladding, entrance features, and commercial frontages where the sheet is viewed from a distance.
The eight standard sheets in this collection represent the most popular decorative designs that Gooding Aluminium holds on its production schedule. They are available to order immediately through the website, manufactured using existing tooling, and normally dispatched within 2–5 working day window.
Beyond this standard collection, Gooding Aluminium has the in-house capability to produce bespoke perforation patterns to a customer’s own design. This service is subject to feasibility assessment — some hole geometries require custom tooling, which adds lead time and cost, while others can be achieved using existing punch sets in non-standard arrangements. The team at sales@goodingalum.com can advise on what is achievable for a specific design.
All sheets in the decorative range can also be supplied with a polyester powder coat, and cut to bespoke dimensions with plain border margins and fixing holes where required. For projects where the perforated sheet is a visible design element — rather than a concealed functional component — the combination of a non-standard pattern with a colour-matched finish can produce a distinctive surface that standard catalogue products cannot replicate.
Standard orders from the existing collection are dispatched within 2–5 working days and delivered via an overnight nationwide service. Bespoke pattern commissions follow a separate timeline agreed during the enquiry process.
Free material samples are available for all sheets in the decorative perforated collection. Samples are posted first class and usually arrive within a couple of days. With decorative perforated aluminium sheet, the physical sample is particularly important — the interplay between hole shape, solid material, light, and viewing distance creates effects that are difficult to predict from product images alone.
