Who we are
A specialist team in the Ribble Valley who design, install and look after the systems we put our name on. Two values, one process, and almost every job by recommendation.
Founded on two values. We have not needed a third.
Ribble AV design, install and maintain audio visual and building automation systems from our workshop at Hawkshaw Farm, just outside Clayton-le-Dale. Homes come first, with bars, hotels and offices alongside.
The team is trained and accredited on every platform we specify, and the person who draws your system is the one who commissions it. No subcontractors, no handover between departments, no learning your house twice.
Almost all of our work arrives by word of mouth. That keeps us honest, and it is the only marketing we have ever needed.
Honesty
We say what a thing costs, how long it takes and what it will not do. If a simpler approach suits the room better, we will tell you that as well.
Standards
Every cable dressed, every rack labelled, every speaker set to the room it sits in. The parts you will never see are built as carefully as the parts you will.
Best Commercial Integration Project, 2025.
The Smart Buildings Awards, for the Grand Hotel Belvedere in Wengen, Switzerland: a protected building, no new holes in any ceiling or wall, and music through every lounge, restaurant, bar and spa.
One entry, one trophy. The judges were shown a hotel where none of the technology announces itself, which is the only brief we ever really work to.
Read the Belvedere project →
Trained by the people who make it.
We hold dealer accreditation with every platform we specify, which means factory training, certification kept current, and direct technical support when something unusual comes up. Nothing on this page is a badge we bought.
The programming is ours as well. We do not subcontract it, so a change to your system two years from now is a phone call to the person who wrote it rather than a ticket in someone else's queue.
The same six stages, every project.
Choosing a system is confusing, and quotes are hard to compare. Three questions sit behind most of them:
Our process is structured and brand-agnostic. We apply the same standards whatever the budget, and specify what suits the room rather than what suits us.
The work takes us further than the Ribble Valley.
Most weeks we are somewhere between Clitheroe and Manchester. Some months we are in the Alps with a van. Either way it is the same team, and the same standard of finish.
Come and see the showroom.
Everything we install, working, in one building on King Street. Hear a cinema at reference level, walk through the lighting scenes and look inside a finished rack before you commit to anything.