leaving line side studios and traveling out can sometimes feel like a bittersweet symphony
i don't know where i'm going or who i'm going to see but today i'm a lucky man because i'm here to
see Marcus Barrett from Spark Safe in the property behind me and he's installing the Verve range of
electrical accessories from Hamilton Marcus just in the lounge pal come through all right okay
all right Eric how are you doing you wow it looks like you're fitting one of those invisible sockets
from Hamilton i thought we were fitting the Verve range i can't see a socket Marcus no so i haven't
actually managed to fit one of them invisible socket outlets yet so what i'm going to be using
which i use quite commonly is the Hamilton Verve range i love the slim profile of these
the range they have is unbelievable i mean if a customer wants it Hamilton are going to have it
i think these are standard on every job the customer is wallpapered um we've Wago in there
so they can wallpaper we're going to cut the wallpaper out so it's not a wallpaper socket Gaz
and then we're going to fit a single socket there was the old conversion kit on it they didn't want
them and they're trying to as they decorate each room get sockets mounted inside the wall whether
we're going to be chasing them in and this one already had a single back box so they just want
a single socket here um so we're going to cut around the wallpaper and and do that i'm glad
you cleared that up for me because i was a little bit worried when i come in i thought we're not
going to be fitting anything so just to slice the wallpaper out just fill that socket for us nicely
busy well it's going to make a big difference this room isn't it so they're freshening up the
electrical accessories as they go around this is the first room to decorate they're only just got
into the property um nice bit of wallpaper and so obviously they'll just raise uh raise it up
a little bit in the air it's a switch when i came in was um yeah in need of being replaced
so again we'll see what an improvement just changing white accessories over to new ones can
make to a room 100% the old conversion plate is still here so i'm just trying to cut around that
first just so we can start to loosen that okay have you fitted any of those wallpaper ones from
Hamilton before i haven't not yet known okay so it would have been a golden opportunity to
upsell into here but it would have yeah but again this is just a matter of swapping accessories for
nice new fresh ones which only will make a big difference you said the range was massive i've
had a look through it and i don't think we can do it justice in this video i'll leave a link in the
description to the range but is that one of the things that drew to it then yeah 100% you know
the way you can swap over the grids the the micro grid systems they have you can almost have any
combination you want um yeah it's just it's just a great range to have i'm already thinking the euro
modules in there as well as that micro grid yes yeah that gives you a lot of flexibility across
the Hamilton range yeah it does yeah i'm just getting this conversion plate off okay yeah
they come and then i should be able to see whether the actual back box finishes i can cut around that
um just cut into the corners and fold them so we can get the single socket on there so i've took
the conversion kit off now this is nice and rusty i imagine the wallpaper paste had something to do
with that i'm just going to fit on a single switch socket outlet again with the slim profile which is
lovely just quickly as well just got to hand here because we're going to be changing one of these
is a fuse spur or fuse connection unit the thing i love about the Hamilton ones ones is rather
than have the terminals all over the place and you've got to get underneath and tighten
the terminals up you've actually just got all the terminals at the top here
so you've got the line out line in next to each other neutral and neutral which is a really nice
way of doing it as opposed to especially if you're in a kitchen it's mostly where they're going to
be and you've got the work top there and you're trying to get underneath or you're spinning it
round and you pop it back around it's just a nice way to do it so nice thought nice touch yeah yeah
so would you get these out the Wago or Wago yeah old colours as well so yeah pre 2004
yeah obviously there's been uh EICR on the property um before the work was carried out
and we're just freshening up these accessories it's all good though this wallpaper wall is quite
uh quite a thing isn't it yeah it's nice it's this the the pattern on it's nice isn't it and
it'll just show off with nice accessories on it nice white accessories just give it a little
bit of a pop that off yeah i'm gonna update the sleeving it's gone a bit brittle over the years
as you see not on the neutrals not the best amount of length so because i have to trim these down
because they're slightly damaged i'm probably not going to double these over again doubling
over is good practice but when they're so short i'd rather not cut more off than i need to so
those screw heads look massive yeah they are and again they're nice solid terminals another thing
i like just the thought behind the accessory is all these terminals are in line with each other
um yeah so they're not scattered about at the back of the accessory et cetera
they're just all nice and in line and it just helps with the termination process so especially
when you have shorter cables and you haven't got to try and get them here there and everywhere oh
yeah so at the top some at the bottom yeah trying to center back because generally the conductor
lengths all tend to be the same yeah yeah exactly side by side that makes it a little bit easier
pop those CPC's in i'm quite intrigued to see what it looks like against the wallpaper
yeah same and i think it just goes to show sometimes just by changing the electrical
accessories especially when you get a nice rounded edge profile slim profile accessory um
it does it does make for a nice difference and generally the customers are sort of
wowed and think oh i don't have to have polish chrome for it to look a million dollars almost
because it's a finished uh socket outlet are the screw caps gonna go in yeah so because
they've already decorated around it normally i wouldn't put them on because they might wanna
sort of take it off slightly but because they have we're just going to get the screw caps in
just to finish it off so these are ones i like to replace because it's easy impact isn't it just by
swapping for a fresh one but you're not going for a standard two gang no no we're going to put in
a two the two gang dimmer range from the Hamilton Verve um 100 watt maximum load for LED lights but
also if you've just got standard light fittings or lamps um it's 400 watt maximum okay so
yes there's a incandescent style yeah there's different range of pendent um
just an important thing to know now is the box gonna be deep enough yeah it is so because it's
a slight old build house they haven't put 16 mil boxes in um almost fit a USB socket in there okay
and it's chased quite far back so okay yeah that's good so dropping those out they've been identified
as well by sleeving okay yeah so you've got those done as well yeah so that's black on brown yes yes
it is yeah to identify that as a switching line conductor yeah again just a little upgrade didn't
it so we've gone for a from a switch that really could do with being freshened up we've added it
to the dimmer so we get sort of a double whack don't we yeah and again you notice they've done
things here they've crimped them um into the back box itself we have a plastic accessory so
there is no earth terminal in here so we'll just leave them as they are they seem tight
um so sort of happy with them and again the connections are all in a row at the top yep and
it looks this time as if you've got a little bit longer at the length than you did on that socket
out there yeah and they're already doubled over so yeah so it's a nice straight swap we've got many
of them do you no no not at all and but again like you said it's when you when you're changing these
just simple things like light switches over the impact it has on a room and and people notice it
when they walk in oh that's a nice nice dimmer even though it is a white accessory so so just
making those final connections on the dimmer yeah and a good thing about these dimmers as
well the modules are interchangeable as well so okay so that one's awesome time we'll see
put the cables back into the box nicely dressed a little bit longer there so that was handy
yeah they should go back a treat shouldn't they even yeah again here aren't you yeah it's not been
too bad we all like jobs like this have you got any other jobs which you can show me where you've
been using the Verve range yeah so again i i use the Verve range all the time it's my common go to
range so i'm actually doing um a bit of a partial rewire where i've started to use them accessories
so we can shoot over to there if you want to and have a look at the accessories we put there so you
come across town partial rewire yeah so we've been under taking a partial rewire we've come
to second fix some of the accessories today the customers started to decorate as you can see up
here and they've had the bathroom fitted so it's more about they're going to start wanting to have
carpets fitted etc and start to move in slowly so we're going to swap some of the old plastered
accessories because it was a partial rewire for the new Hamilton Verve range which i use on every
job anyway so and that means we've got a USB socket by the side of the bed some switches and
things like that to swap over yeah 100% well it certainly is your go to accessory because we're
taking one off you obviously powered up so the customer had some power to decorate yeah and it
just seems that they've plastered everything in so what we're doing is changing these accessories
now because they're as you can tell by inside they're a bit of a stake so what we're going to do
is it's cracked a little bit as we've taken it off whether maybe they haven't bonded the box in
around the edges there so what we'll do is we'll get a bit of filler once we've got the new
accessory on um we'll put a bit of filler there just for the customer really and it's both sides
of the bed for USB is that what the standard practice is pretty much now yes yeah and it's
just something they requested as well they're the only USBs they want in the property really so okay
the USB A's and are they 2.4 amps more right and thinking for each of the outlets yes they are yeah
so they get that quicker charging as well so it's handy i think uh the bedside socket outlet becomes
the phone charger radio alarm clock entertainment system and everything isn't it so you have an
ability to charge your device while the side of bed is brilliant so we can pop the new one on
do you put the screw caps on at this stage would you save it to the customer no i'll save them for
the customer because again if if we're gonna have to fill around these edges they're gonna
maybe just slightly loosen the socket off to cut it in with paint rather than them call me back and
say oh try to get it off and i've i've damaged it because they don't know the tricks of the trade as
such so okay so yeah pop that one in yeah and that's it not nicely done so yeah you can see
we're close to finishing downstairs is in a little bit of a worse state from the point of view we
haven't had the plasterer in so obviously they're working from the top down bathroom looks lovely
because the USB socket outlet fitting many of these is it pretty much standard practice now yeah
everyone seems to love these now um and especially they've moved on they now fit in a 25 mil box
um they become more common and it's something you i find yourself as electrician sometimes
saying what about USB socket have you thought about having one of them here or
you know you go and they've got extension leads with multiple iphone chargers plugged in etcetera
so yeah so it comes with a mini up upsell doesn't it you know the ability to have USB socket outlets
because always form with rewired you start off with sockets lights everywhere and when you've
finished and spent your money you've still got sockets and lights everywhere so yeah it's down
lights it's uh USBs and obviously the ability to switch maybe from more than one position than
you would normally yeah obviously gives that a little bit of a luxury feel to it doesn't it yeah
we've said before and we're about the Hamilton range been massively extensive obviously with
all those um decorative ones and we've also mentioned the wallpapered in one
uh give them options do you within the Hamilton range yeah yeah yeah
there's such a range on there um you can sort of cater for for any needs of what the customer
wants so whatever that they're talking about having whether it's just the the Verve range
um like these ones here whether you're looking at different colour outlets different finishes
um different setups they sort of cater for it all really so when you when you go there and
they they ask you something and you think oh does my brand do that am i gonna have to go searching
for another brand most of the time Hamilton does so yeah which is quite nice you're looking through
one catalog and not across several catalogs in order for them to select what they want yeah
hundred percent gonna get some filler quickly yeah we're just going to filler it first before we push
it back rather than trying to filler it and then getting it all on the side of the socket and doing
what was already happened to the previous outlet so and that's a beautiful empty property obviously
we can just leave it off can we yes yeah and the power's off anyway we've safely isolated it so
yeah i've got no issues there so this will freshen this one up because this is an old accessory
yeah this is again it was a partial reward so this was one that was just left over from
um before we started doing some work here decided to leave it on for when they get it dirty painting
it plastering etcetera and we're going to swap this for a one gang um this is for the two
definitely a two gang yeah no this this was just again to preserve newer accessories um rather than
putting them on yet because we knew they was going to get painted etcetera so did try and come into
the customer the actual two way switching for the landing and hallway is actually behind us okay um
and again that's just original and they didn't want it moving you know i did try and say to them
and to be the good thing i like about the Hamilton range is let's say i was going to put a two gang
on here and i needed let's say an intermediate and a two way or a one way you can actually swap these
out so if i had you can change the modules so if i'd made that a two gang and one of them wanted to
be say the intermediate you can just pop that out so you can screw it away so you just take out the
two little grub screws okay and this off either side yeah yeah so let's see that nice and close
yeah so you just pop those out and then you just interchange it for an intermediate i would imagine
too many people use one ways but you could no yeah yeah yeah so that comes out just click it out for
me is simple it just sits out and then all i would do is i would maybe buy from the wholesaler and
intermediate one gang intermediate um take it off the back of that slot it in place like so
yeah and then just screw it back in place so we could have had that there as a two game one of
them could have been intermediate one of them could have been two way okay i could have three
i could have three intermediates if i wanted to if i was putting on a three gang that that
again that it's just little things like that which is why this is my sort of go-to brand so
yeah right so let's have a look and see if there's any horrors under here no no that's all right
so that was recently rewired if it's uh brown and blue i know it's 2004 i'm sounding old now on
what's that but you said it's partial rewind 2004 yeah they had a pull cord basically and it was
just re-rooted yeah re-routed down to the box so i'm just going to go to the van get some sleeving
identify the switching line yet and then we'll we'll get the new switch on there again
it looks like the plaster didn't take off the accessory slightly before we skim around it so
maybe fill out the edges just to give it a nicer finish they can sand it down i'm not
a decorator so i'm not painting any for them as well so you clearly stated you're no decorator
Marcus however we're always looking to add value to the customer obviously it makes more work for
us but that must mean more money for us yeah what sort of things can you offer up so again things
like where people are having TV's and media walls plenty of socket outlets to stop the the dreaded
extension leads um coax point our RJ45 points all available in the Hamilton Verve range also
things like brush plates ah right yeah so where people have media walls and we maybe drop a bit of
conduit in for their HDMI cables etc now you can have the brush plates where they just come through
and they can make the connections behind the tv et um the things i like about this one as well
is it's actually got a gray brush as opposed to a dark black brush against the white
um accessory sometimes sticks out especially if it's on show where these are a bit more
discreet so all little bits like that that make an ultimate difference to a customer's property
it's the little differences they say make the biggest difference so
absolutely and it seems as we've said before the range is massive we almost can't catch it
no no definitely not should we take a look at the microgrid system next yeah so just another handy
element from the Verve range we have this micro grid system comes from a one to a six module um
and we can put lots of different elements in there so one of my favorite ones is this three module
here we've actually got a triple pole isolator for a fan okay you see it's labeled on there it's got
a picture of an isolator of a fan as well with an inline fuse we know a lot of extractor fans
are actually stating now it should be protected by three amp fuse or one amp fuse and if we turn it
over as you can see we've got these little grabber screws here so the top sort of clicks in place you
lever it down and you secure it in place for a grubber screw and this plate we can put anything
in here we needed to okay to fit the installation we're doing another good one we've got here
okay we've got a six module um and we've got a inline fuse here for a fridge as you can see
it's labeled dishwasher and then a little handy we can add a little light switch in there okay so
we can if we've got under cupboard lighting plinth lighting and anything like that we could actually
control that in this same faceplate so it's really handy we get lots of different ones so again we
can get them with just pictures on okay the double module ones we get single module ones they also
come with just blank ones as well okay so again a great range still with a slim profile um curved
edges and we can yeah we can sort of arrange it to fit the installation as we need to so i
started off the video with a few Richard Ashcroft thrown in there hopefully you spotted them and
i'll do another one i can change i can change i can change just about anything with a Verve range
from Hamilton yeah absolutely you can if you need a 50 amp cooker switch double pole they've got it
if you need a phone master or phone slave they've got it so pretty much anything you can think of
in this accessory range Hamilton will be able to provide you with however it's always your
feedback we're after is there something we haven't mentioned you think it's a standout within the
range please leave it in the comments below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can cheers