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.
