that must be possibly the heaviest socket i think i've ever picked up well that's for
good reason because today we're going high-end we're looking at the Linea range from hamilton
i'm quite heavy does that make me high-end i don't think it quite applies to people gary but um
if you speak to an architect or an interior designer they'll suggest that you spend money
on the things that people touch because it's that feel that reflects the quality of the building
what do people spend money on taps incredibly you can see there's some incredibly expensive
taps out there bathroom fittings in general door handles and why shouldn't
switches and sockets be part of that process because it's something we probably touch
a number of times every day yeah and i didn't think we could level up from the
Perception CFX range that we looked at previously that hamilton offer and believe it or not i
know you're looking very closely there's actually a four gang light switch and a twin socket outlet
on that wall but it blends in seamlessly and i believe we've levelled up with this linear range
yeah i will leave a link in the description below to that video if you want to see gary wallpapering
then that is an absolute treat to watch but back to this range you know this is again if you don't
like wallpapering but you still want a high-end finish this is the range for you and i mean how
many finishes are we looking at here that you can possibly have Gary there's that many even
we can't remember them so we're going to leave a link to those finishes in the description i think
it's your imaginations the only thing is going to hold you back and it's the subtle little details
that we're going to drill into next the actual frames themselves should we take a look at that
let's have a closer look at some of these edge details it's all about the detail so first i've
got the duo finish there which is a very flat edge return okay and it matches the socket finish we
don't have to do that do you no you don't care it's a bit like when you bought your porsche
it was the you can have your seat stitching in a different color to your leather so here's
brass rondo finish which is quite a nice uh round edge to it but the rockers in the in the matching
brass as well yeah i like that that's a nice detail donut and obviously inserts yeah there's
lots of different colours of inserts available now as well so i can take it to another level
so here's a style you might be familiar with gary okay i've not seen it in this finish
that's normally the one i associate with maybe brass yeah so this is the georgian sort of rope
edge detail with a highly polished front plate or as we like to call them the line of duty front
plates because H was eventually caught because he left his fingerprints on a highly polished switch
okay nice detail there as well from you yep and then we've got the scala finish so again this
is a matching one of the four bronze finishes but you'll see there's a little stepped detail
yeah i like that that's really nice it's so subtle that until you really look you don't
really appreciate what it gives to the actual accessory do you that's lovely and then rounding
off our trim plate options is the Perlina which i guess is a sort of heading towards that georgian
finish but not quite as heavy a detail and again we've got that with a brass on brass option
yeah shall we take a closer look now of how that detail actually works yeah well i'm torn
here again i don't know what you want to look at i've got one type of bronze here out of the four
different possible bronze finishes i could possibly have but i think i'll plumb for this
one let's have a closer look um first thing not to remember is this it's not part of the packaging is
it no it isn't no so this goes on the wall say if you've got a plaster wall and you don't want it to
react with the metal finish particularly if it's a new building there's still a bit of moisture
in there so don't forget that but just to see how that detail works so this is the detail we've just
looked at now let's just remember on this socket outlets
these are sort of custom built to order so it's not something you'll expect to find on the shelf
because there's so many options available but there's our back plates detail if i remove
the front cover it's the the four point fixing we're used to seeing on the hamilton products
here's the switch that we've looked at in lots of videos before you get the usual
things you'd expect on there easy to wire uh very visible uh easy to identify your terminals
that just clips into the mounting frame so you can see that there there's some little spigots
at the top there again that just positions itself in there and then once you've put your
front plate screws in there's something quite satisfying about this and as it clips into
place just clicks into place i mean that looks gorgeous it does look gorgeous should you need to
remove it again perhaps you didn't get it level the first time you need to make some adjustments
it's just a screwdriver into there and you can then get into remove the front plate as well
quality quality quality i would suggest there now behind us we've got a lovely rig and we've
been using this rig in some of our other videos now we've paired it with a couple of dimmers
over there have you done any adjustments that low end that we've talked about in other videos
no i haven't but this is a special front plate that hamilton have made so this is a combination
of dimmer switches and some uh standard switch elements they also do
euro module in the range there which we've got here with the tv outlets in do they do
grid switches as well and there's grid switches as well the traditional grid switches so this is
a bit of a combination here but again shows that uh mix and match and the things that hamilton will
do especially for those high-end projects um but we've paired it with these dimmable incandescent
style led lamps and at the top you've got some led strip wow i didn't think you'd go there but
go on then all dimmed through uh a phase dimmed led driver and just so again if you you know you
can do things with apps and things like that but a lot of people just like a switch by the door
and again for the led so that's straight away dimming that led it's out of the box yeah yeah
i haven't trimmed to trim the low end and again the switch as well so you may want to trim the
law into for the cut-off point but sign of quality for me that works pretty well so we've got that
paired up with some five amp sockets so again if we're looking at high-end projects you'll probably
see a lot of these scattered around so people can plug in table lamps and everything else so
yeah the five amp socket lives on and at the other end of the scale for our modern devices
we've got the usb outlets as well so this is a combination of black with a with a bronze
and a bronze surrounding that's possibly my favorite but i am torn because this one is also
absolutely beautiful as well another bronze finish we've got here yeah lovely but as ever
with hamilton they've got all of your possible wiring accessory needs covered we've got the
fuse spurs things like you'd expect to see in things like kitchens got your favorite
there gary the dolly switch i mean that is heavy yeah it is quality i would suggest and i do like
that i think that's how a switch should operate a lighting system within a property i think that's
wonderful i could see that in the in your lives yeah if only had a library that would be the one
wouldn't it yeah um but as ever you know it's not our it's not what we think it's it's what
you think are you lucky enough to be fitting this Linea range from Hamilton if you are we'd like to
come around and see those installations because the from what we've seen these end up being some
quality establishments that you may not even be allowed to talk about um if you can't do that
well put some comments below let us know what you think and gary will try and answer all of them