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For me its Hager or Schneider as my preferred choice. I find KEW in Bath give very good prices on Hager
But if its a tight budget then I will often spec Click, that said I have used a lot of the Denmans own brand recently and made usign same moulds as click so wouldn't be surprised if its not made by the scolmore group for rexel/denmans.
The advantage of the click range is the adaptable light switches,very good if you want a mix of 1 way/2 way or intermediate switches in a small switch without going down the grid route.
 
For plastic I use Hager and carry some square edged BG when occasionally required. Like click too.
Lap get a lot of bad reviews if you look closer - quite a few say the switches stop moving after a few months. I would avoid. For metal my favourite is Schneider flat plate. BG Nexus aren't a bad metal budget option but have had a couple of failures in the past couple of years..
 
Needed a socket at short notice today so went to B&Q and grabbed a MK. Build quality seems okay but dissapointed that there's no covers for the screw heads
 
Schneider metal accessories, normally MK for plastic.
 
Ironically I’m not a big fan of those little white screw caps

I prefer a chrome screws neatly lined up

I’m glad I’m not the only one, it breaks me when I find screws that aren’t lined up vertically.
 

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