Smart home and commercial AV installation in Manchester
Houses in Didsbury and Prestwich, apartments in Ancoats and Deansgate, and bars, showrooms and offices across the city. We are forty minutes up the M66, which is close enough to look after what we install.
Victorian lath and plaster on one job, a concrete slab on the next.
Manchester is two different jobs wearing the same postcode. In Didsbury, Chorlton, Heaton Moor and Prestwich you are working in tall Victorian and Edwardian rooms: lath and plaster ceilings that will not hold a heavy speaker, original cornice nobody wants cut, suspended timber floors that make cable routes easy and airborne noise between rooms a problem. Several of those streets are conservation areas, so what happens on the front elevation matters.
Move into town and the constraints invert. Apartments in Ancoats, Castlefield and around Deansgate are concrete and steel, so Wi-Fi dies at the core and nothing gets drilled without the freeholder’s blessing. There is no loft, no void and often no obvious home for a rack, so it goes into the utility cupboard and gets ventilated properly. Noise transfer through the structure decides how a cinema room is built long before the speaker choice does.
The third strand here is commercial. Bars, restaurants, showrooms and offices in the city need audio that is even from the door to the back wall, screens a member of staff can change without ringing anyone, and a system that survives being used by the public every day. That work runs to a contractor’s programme, and we are used to holding an AV package inside a fit-out.
Victorian and Edwardian villas in the southern suburbs, apartment conversions and new-build towers in the centre, and commercial fit-outs across the city.
Structural isolation for cinema, consent-friendly methods in managed buildings, and a channel plan that cuts through neighbouring networks.
Eight disciplines, all from the same team.
Most Manchester projects use three or four of these at once, residential or commercial. Nothing is subcontracted out, and the person who draws it is the person who commissions it.
Where we work in Greater Manchester.
All of it is inside a comfortable drive of the workshop, which is why we can service what we install rather than posting a courier a part.
If your area is not listed, ring anyway. It almost certainly means we have simply not written it down yet.
Didsbury · West Didsbury · Chorlton · Whalley Range · Withington · Fallowfield · Victoria Park · Levenshulme · Burnage · Heaton Moor · Heaton Mersey
Deansgate · Castlefield · Spinningfields · Ancoats · New Islington · Northern Quarter · Green Quarter · St John’s · Salford Quays
Prestwich · Whitefield · Broughton Park · Worsley · Monton · Eccles · Irlam · Cadishead · Ramsbottom
Sale · Urmston · Flixton · Stretford · Timperley · Didsbury Village · Northenden · Cheadle · Gatley
One here, and the nearest others.
The difference is what happens in year three.
Forty minutes up the M66
Close enough for a support visit the same week, and for the site meetings a city fit-out needs. Far enough out that our rates are not city-centre rates.
We know the buildings
Freeholder consent, riser access, lift bookings, loading bays and out-of-hours noise rules. We have done the paperwork before, so it does not stall the job.
Aftercare, not a ticket queue
Programming stays with us. A change to a scene or a source is a phone call to the person who wrote it, not a support portal.
Residential and commercial
Homes, bars, showrooms and offices from the same team. Named Best Commercial Integration Project at the 2025 Smart Buildings Awards.
Asked here most.
If yours is not here, ring the workshop. We would rather answer it properly than have you guess.
