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A large open-plan kitchen and living space at night, lighting and audio on one system
LOCATION / CHESHIRE

Home cinema and smart home installation in Cheshire

Large houses in Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Hale and Knutsford, and quieter work out across the plain to Chester. Under an hour from the workshop, with no travel charge.

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FIG. 01 / KITCHEN AND LIVING, RECENT WORK
55 min Workshop to Alderley Edge
5.0 Google rating, every review
2025 Smart Buildings Award winner
One team Design, install, aftercare
01 The county

Big footprints, glass elevations, and a gate at the end of the drive.

The Cheshire brief is usually scale rather than difficulty. Detached houses in Alderley Edge, Prestbury, Mottram St Andrew, Hale and Bowdon are large, often extended, and frequently gated, which means a system has to reach the annexe, the pool house, the garden office and the gatehouse as well as the main rooms. A single router in a hallway cupboard will not do it, so the network comes first and everything else hangs off it.

The other constant is glass. The big open-plan extension with sliding doors and a roof lantern is the room everybody lives in, and it is also acoustically hard, thermally difficult and impossible to black out without planning for it. Speakers have to work without a soft surface to help them, shading has to be wired in at first fix, and cooling belongs in the design rather than in a portable unit two summers later.

Further out, Knutsford, Nantwich, Tarporley and Chester bring Georgian townhouses, black-and-white timber-framed listed properties and sandstone farm buildings, and around Hale and Mobberley there is Green Belt to consider. Those jobs are retrofit, careful and slower, and they are usually run with an architect and a main contractor rather than direct.

TYPICAL HERE

Large detached and gated houses on the Edge and in Hale, Georgian townhouses in Knutsford and Chester, and family new builds across the plain.

WHAT IT ASKS FOR

A wired backbone that reaches the outbuildings, shading and cooling designed in early, and security integrated rather than bolted on.

An indoor pool house with concealed audio and LED lighting set for evening FIG. 02 / POOL HOUSE, RECENT WORK
03 Villages and areas

Where we work in Cheshire.

From the Edge across to Chester. All of it is a comfortable drive from the workshop, which is why we can service what we install rather than posting a courier a part.

If your village is not listed, ring anyway. It almost certainly means we have simply not written it down yet.

The Edge and around

Alderley Edge · Prestbury · Mottram St Andrew · Chelford · Mobberley · Styal · Adlington · Over Alderley

Knutsford and the north

Knutsford · Hale · Hale Barns · Bowdon · Altrincham · Lymm · High Legh · Great Budworth · Tabley

East Cheshire

Macclesfield · Bollington · Rainow · Poynton · Disley · Congleton · Holmes Chapel · Goostrey

Chester and the plain

Chester · Tarporley · Tattenhall · Nantwich · Audlem · Malpas · Farndon · Northwich · Hartford · Sandbach · Frodsham · Helsby

05 Why local matters

The difference is what happens in year three.

01

Under an hour, both ways

Close enough to be at a site meeting in the morning and back for a commissioning visit in the afternoon, and to service what we install for years afterwards.

02

We know these builds

Large extensions, basements, pool houses and gated plots, run alongside architects, main contractors and joiners. We are used to a programme with twelve trades on it.

03

Discretion as standard

Unmarked vans, no signage, no photographs published without written permission, and staff who are used to occupied houses.

04

Accredited, and checkable

Trained and certified on Control4, KNX, Lutron and Trinnov. Named Best Commercial Integration Project at the 2025 Smart Buildings Awards.

06 Questions

Asked here most.

If yours is not here, ring the workshop. We would rather answer it properly than have you guess.

Not one we can publish yet, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. The projects shown above are the nearest equivalents: the same basement entertaining briefs, pool houses and large open-plan builds, done in Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Several Cheshire clients prefer their houses stay off a website entirely, which we respect. If it would help, we will put you in touch with an existing client on a similar build so you can ask them directly rather than take our word for it.

It changes the method. Much of Hale, Mobberley and the land around Prestbury is Green Belt, and there are timber-framed and sandstone listed properties across the county. Outbuildings, garden rooms, external cameras and satellite dishes can all need consent, and cabling in a listed interior has to avoid original fabric. We will flag what needs permission before you commit to anything, and we are happy to speak to your planning consultant or conservation officer.

Yes, and on a gated plot that is usually the whole point. Gate control, intercom, ANPR, CCTV, alarm status and lighting can sit behind the same app and the same keypads, so arriving home is one action rather than four. We will work with your existing security company where you have one you trust — we would rather integrate a good alarm than replace it — and we keep camera recording local, with remote access properly secured.

No travel charge. We are at Clayton-le-Dale, about fifty-five minutes from Alderley Edge and Knutsford and a little over an hour from Chester. Cheshire is one of our regular patches, and support visits run the same as anywhere else: usually within one or two working days, same day when a room has stopped working completely.

07 / START HERE

Under an hour, and no travel charge.

We will come to the house, or you are welcome at the workshop at Clayton-le-Dale. Either way you get an hour, honest budget guidance and no obligation.

Local line
01254 917310
Hawkshaw Farm, Longsight Road
Clayton-le-Dale, Lancashire, BB2 7JA
Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00 · Sat by appointment