Fifty lighting circuits, four buttons.
The White Horse in Cromer was gutted and rebuilt after our client bought it. They wanted the lot: lighting, heating, music, screens, a network for guests and cameras. One thing mattered more than any of it. A new member of staff had to be able to run the room on their first shift.
Much of the ceiling is glass, which rules out speakers in it. So the speakers went on the walls, chosen to look like part of the room rather than equipment in it, with the bass tucked under the bench seating where nobody notices it. The result is even sound at a volume that keeps the neighbours on side.
The televisions show coastal artwork when nothing is on, so the walls read as walls. The bathrooms play audiobooks, which was an odd request and remains the thing guests mention most.
Behind that simplicity sits a lot of wiring: over fifty lighting circuits, five heating zones and an air conditioning zone. Staff see four scenes, morning, day, evening and late, on a keypad out the back or a panel on the bar. Turning the alarm off brings the pub up. Setting it puts the pub away.
Norfolk is a long way from the Ribble Valley, so we specified only equipment we can reach from here. Most problems are solved before anyone notices them, and almost none need a van.
Open seven days a week since reopening, with no callouts, and the same client has since handed us a second bar in the town.
Photographed after handover.
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