Smart home installation in Swiss Cottage

Newer apartments often arrive with a developer's basic smart package: a thermostat, perhaps a video entry panel, and little else joined up. We extend those sensibly — adding lighting scenes, music zones and proper networking — rather than ripping out equipment that is perfectly serviceable.

Purpose-built blocks from the sixties and seventies have concrete structures that punish wireless systems. Cabled access points and wired keypads are the difference between a system that feels instant and one that hesitates, so networking is always the first line of the design here.

For period terraces on the Finchley Road side we do the same retrofit work as in neighbouring Hampstead: lighting under control, heating zoned, music and television tidied, and cabling planned around the decoration you already have.