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I have just been working in a two year old bungalow that has many antique brass finish wiring accessories supplied by CEF. They look attractive but the build quality is much the same as LAP. Poor.


Anyway the bungalow is fully cluttered with wiring accessories etc. on walls and ceilings.


People complain about cables or wiring accessories  that are visible, but they accept heating radiators or pipework with no complaints. Nowadays it is even trendy to have 3 metre high chrome plated radiators/towel rails in bathrooms from floor to ceiling.


Anyway this bungalow is cluttered with switches, sockets, smoke/CO alarms, front door 360 degree P.I.R. to turn on the entrance hall light etc.


Yers ago you may have had just a two gang light switch by the front door, one switch for the entrance hall light and another for the outside light. Now here there are four separate  plates side by side taking up much of the small side interior wall. One alarm plate with three switches marked LOCATE, TEST & SILENCE. A blanked off white blanking plate, and two other single accessories. All clutter, not neat at all. And all accessories are in different finishes so stick out like a sore thumb.


Then in the kitchen diner there is a high vaulted ceiling with sloping sides. The small horizontal top ceiling has two separate alarms, probably  CO and heat alarms, and two pendant drops. All very cluttered.

A double plate light switch on one wall with a metal box behind with no grommets in the 20mm holes and many unsheathed cables entering or leaving through the rough edged metal holes.


Clutter, clutter everywhere and not a clear space to see.


GGGRRRRRrrrrrrr


Z.




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    I was having a coffee in Marks and Spencer's cafe in Westwood Cross the other day.  The tables and chairs, walls and counters etc all look well designed, easy on the eye, then you look up... Ah!  They've forgotten the ceiling.  All the ducting, trunking, cable trays, air con condensate pipes, etc., etc. are all on view.  The air con cassettes are designed to be fitted withing a suspended ceiling, but they are just hanging with all the gubbins on view.  Is it just me?
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    It's the new inview "industrial" look Foffer. It is supposed to be modern and trendy. I think that it all started in the new homes built in old warehouses in the East End dockland area of London. Personally I have mixed views of the system of inview industrial design. Some is good some bad. I suppose that it is a personal thing as to liking or disliking it. Inview galvanised conduit and cable tray anyone?


    Z.
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    I am in the process of putting seven or eight double sockets for his and hers desks into daughter's house. Will that make it look cluttered?


    Or will the removal of the snakes' wedding of tangled cables de-clutter the room?


    Her new sockets are like little bread boards (no, not the things for prototype electronics).
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    Being a Unistrut aficionado I quite like the industrial look in cafes etc, gives me something to look at while Mrs B is waffling about handbags and shoes
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    This was the first large scale example that I came across with internal visible services. https://www.arup.com/projects/selfridges-birmingham
    On the exterior the earlier Pompidou Centre in Paris & Lloyds of London come to mind.  

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    Ah!  They've forgotten the ceiling.  All the ducting, trunking, cable trays, air con condensate pipes, etc., etc. are all on view.



    Well I suppose it stops the badgers just chucking cables over the ceiling tiles....

      - Andy.
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    One of my customers turned a brick arch cellar into the living room of a new flat, I wanted to run some conduit to the light and switch, nothing complicated just galvanised conduit on the brickwork, all very trendy.

    The customer said no and paid a carpenter to line the arch with a plywood ceiling that he struggled to get to follow the curve, when he fixed it to the battens he had fixed to the brickwork it resembled a threepenny bit.


    Meanwhile another tenant asked if she could wallpaper a wall in another of his goats to make a feature of it and proceeded to paper the wall with mock brickwork wallpaper.


    Andy 


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    goat ?


    If you can get mock brick wall paper, perhaps we should look for wallpaper mock clipped direct surface wiring and surface lead gas pipes.
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    Blencathra:

    Being a Unistrut aficionado I quite like the industrial look in cafes etc, gives me something to look at while Mrs B is waffling about handbags and shoes



    ?


    z.
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    mapj1:

    goat ?


    If you can get mock brick wall paper, perhaps we should look for wallpaper mock clipped direct surface wiring and surface lead gas pipes.




    I definitely didn’t write goat.

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