Home automation long had a reputation for over-engineering: proprietary systems, remote controls by the dozen, installations only one integrator knew how to run. That's not what we install any more. Today a well-designed connected home is a few chosen uses, standard hardware, and an electrical installation designed to accommodate them. That's the approach we stand for — all the more readily because we come from that trade.
The four uses that are worth it
After years of seeing what gets used and what sits idle, our list is short.
Lighting. Scenes rather than switches: an "evening" mood that dims the living room and brings up the wall lights, a "night light" setting, a corridor that lights up on detection. The comfort gain is immediate, and it's the use people regret least.
Roller shutters. Centralising opening and closing, setting a schedule, closing everything with one gesture on the way out. It's simple, robust, and genuinely changes daily life in a south-facing flat.
Heating. Controlling electric radiators room by room, via pilot wire or connected thermostats, with a schedule that follows your real days — and consumption tracking that shows where the money goes. It's the use that pays for itself.
The network. Not home automation in the strict sense, but everything else depends on it. RJ45 sockets in the main rooms, a well-placed router, Wi-Fi that actually covers the home: without that, connected devices spend their time dropping off.
Beyond those, we also fit switched sockets, remote shut-off for a water heater, or camera viewing and presence-detection notifications. They're useful extras, but we offer them after the first four, not before.
Wired or wireless: the question that decides everything
It's the first trade-off, and it depends on the state of your home.
In a finished home, we favour radio solutions: modules in the existing boxes, connected switches, wireless thermostats. No chasing, fitted in a few hours, and reversible. It's the right choice for equipping a flat without building work.
On an open site, we pre-wire: conduit to every shutter, every controlled lighting point, every thermostat position, and a wired network in the main rooms. Wired is more reliable, more discreet and depends on no battery — but it can only be decided before the walls are closed. That's why we always raise home automation at the drawing stage of a major electrical renovation or an apartment rewiring, even for a client who isn't sure they want it: a few extra runs of conduit cost almost nothing, pulling them later costs a partition.
A technical detail that often catches people out: most connected switches need a neutral in the box, and older wiring layouts don't have one. We check before proposing hardware that couldn't be fitted.
What we refuse to do
Three things, and we'd rather say them upfront.
We don't promise quantified savings: controlled heating cuts consumption when the schedule is set properly, not by magic. We don't lock a client into a closed proprietary system that only one supplier knows how to extend — we favour standard protocols that other electricians can take over after us. And we don't install for the sake of installing: if a use matches no real habit of yours, we say so, even if it removes a line from the quote.
How it works
A visit first, to understand how you live in the home: who comes home when, which rooms are used in the evening, what annoys you today. From that we build a proposal by use, separating what's wired from what's wireless, with a line-by-line quote.
Installation runs from half a day for connected lighting or a set of shutters, to a few days for a fully pre-wired home. Every device is configured and tested with you before we leave — you're left with an installation that works, not with a manual.
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