Lead Lined Boards
A range of high-pressure, lead-bonded building materials for effective lead-lining. Raybloc supplies and installs lead lined boards, x-ray resistant plasterboard and lead lined plywood, available at a standard thickness of 12.5mm excluding lead thickness. Greater thicknesses can also be supplied and installed upon request.
Lead Lined Plasterboard & Plywood
These lead lined plywood boards are commonly used to prevent radiation leakage through walls, floors, and ceilings within facilities that require radiation protection up to a lead equivalence of 10mm Pb. Examples include X-ray rooms in veterinary practices, dental surgeries and hospitals, CT rooms, and radiation research facilities. If you require a lead equivalence greater than 10mm Pb, please see our product page on lead chevrons.
Reliable Radiation Protection in Every Environment
Raybloc’s lead-lined plasterboards and plywood panels are expertly engineered to meet the shielding requirements of healthcare and industrial environments, offering long-lasting protection against scatter and primary radiation. Whether installed in a diagnostic imaging suite or a high-energy research lab, each board is manufactured to meet the highest standards of compliance and precision, with lead to edges and consistent thickness throughout the entire board.
Our solutions are backed by Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA) assessments and designed to help ensure your facility is fully compliant with shielding specifications from floor to ceiling.
Why Choose Raybloc For Lead Lined Materials?
Fast Delivery
Fast and efficient delivery to anywhere in Europe.
High Quality Construction
High pressure bonded to an array of boarding material, bespoke designed to suit your installation specification.
Flexible Options
A range of lead thicknesses to suit any application from dental to CT to industrial.
Long Lifespan
Tried and tested bonding method as carried out in hundreds of hospital locations throughout the UK guaranteeing a life-time bond for maximum safety and piece of mind.
Why use lead lined X-ray protective boards?
Lead is an effective standard used in radiation shielding practices given its malleability, cost, and high density. Lead sheets are manufactured in lead mills into rolls at a certain thickness, before being bonded to our lead boards at high heat and pressure to make lead-lined panels. The thicknesses they are made to are in accordance with lead codes. At Raybloc, we supply x-ray protection boards from code 3 (1.32mm Pb) up to code 8 (3.55mm Pb). These can be stacked to achieve a greater thickness of lead where necessary.
To ensure full lead coverage across a wall or ceiling, all of our radiation protective boards come complete with leaded battens for fixing onto solid walls and ceilings (e.g. block work) or lead strips (lead fillets) for fixing onto timber battens (e.g. stud work). Battens and strips prevent leakage between boards to make certain your room is completely protected to the standards of the Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA) specified for your project.
Fitting lead lined plasterboard & plywood for X-ray Shielding
X-ray protective panels are smaller than standard boards given they must take the load of the lead metal that is bonded to them. The standard size of board that we supply and install is 2400mm x 600mm to reduce the amount of weight of the lead lined panels. These require handling by at least two people, given each lead board weighs a minimum of 20kg, even with a thin layer of lead.
Since gypsum plasterboard is less structurally strong than plywood, lead plasterboard is limited to code 5 lead to prevent them from breaking once installed under its own weight. X-ray protection that requires code 6, code 7, and code 8 lead panels can only be mounted on plywood boards.
All of our lead-lined sheets can be supplied to the site and installed by our team of experienced radiation protection fitters.
Lead Battens and Fillets
To achieve a continuous radiation barrier across all junctions, Raybloc provides both lead battens and lead fillets to accompany every X-ray protection board installation. Lead battens are designed for fixing onto solid substrates such as concrete or block walls, while lead fillets (strips) are used for stud wall frameworks. These components are essential for maintaining shielding integrity at board joints and edges – an often overlooked but critical aspect of compliant X-ray room construction. By using our integrated battens and fillets, contractors and Trusts can be assured that no radiation leakage will occur between board junctions, even in complex layouts, so long as they are installed correctly.
Other Uses of Lead-Lined Boards
As well as being used for X-ray shields, lead-lined boards come with additional benefits. When compared to regular drywall and plywood boards, leaded boards have acoustic properties, preventing noise from transferring between rooms. This makes lead-lined panels effective for places like cinemas and studios where sound dampening is a necessity.
Quality and Experience at Every Step
From initial consultation to final installation, Raybloc is committed to delivering premium radiation shielding solutions with precision, care, and attention to detail. Every board is bonded in-house at our UK facility by trained operatives using machinery developed through years of experience in the field.
With over two decades of successful shielding projects behind us, we understand what it takes to ensure compliance without compromising on build quality or deadlines. Whether you require a full shielding package or a single pallet of boards, Raybloc offers responsive customer service, technical support, and industry-leading expertise every step of the way.
Lead thicknesses are altered to achieve various levels of radiation protection, determined by an RPA (Radiation Protection Adviser). Weights of various thickness of lead are shown on this illustration. Higher thickness of lead is available upon special request.
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