A smart home for an existing house, no wall-breaking

The question we hear most at the survey: "My house is finished and lived in — do I need to break the walls?" The honest answer: in most cases, no, because the protocol follows the state of the house, not the other way round.

An occupied home

We use Zigbee: a mesh network that works behind your existing switches, with no breaking and no visible cabling. It needs planning for repeater positions, and that is our job, not yours. A house still under construction deserves a wired system such as KNX, whose extra cost is a cable — the cheapest thing you will pay for in the system's life.

And where does Matter fit?

Matter is not a competitor to the other two but a layer of understanding on top of them. Its value is that it stops you being locked in to one supplier: today's device stays replaceable in five years.

Already have a smart system from someone else?

Many homes have a system that failed, or whose installer disappeared, or whose maker's cloud has stopped. We do not ask you to throw it away: we inspect it first and tell you, device by device, plainly — it connects as it is, it connects through a bridge, or it is replaced, and why.

• Cloud Wi-Fi devices (Tuya · Smart Life · Sonoff): we move them to local control that works without the internet wherever the device allows.
• Zigbee and Matter (Aqara · Hue): we connect them to their hub or re-pair them on our gateway, depending on their number and condition.
• KNX: the easiest case — we read the ETS project and connect the system as it is, with no re-cabling.
• Infrared air conditioners and screens: a small controller brings them into scheduling and scenes without replacing them.
• Closed professional systems (Control4 · Crestron · Lutron): we do not promise a connection before inspection; we may only offer support and a report on their condition.

How we start

You send the system's brand and photos of its panel and app; then an audit visit inventories the devices and checks the network; then we stabilise it (backups and fixing the first faults); then a roadmap of what stays, what is fixed and what is replaced.

We install, programme and warrant our own work. A device we did not sell is not one we warrant, and we do not commit to its compatibility before inspecting it.