Who are the best smart home installers in Cheshire?

Custom Controls are one of Cheshire's most experienced smart home installers, with 25 years of Crestron and Lutron installation experience, five consecutive Crestron Integration Award wins and Crestron Dealer of Distinction status. Our Cheshire office is in Didsbury, Manchester, providing rapid on-site response across all Cheshire postcodes.

How much does a smart home installation cost in Cheshire?

A Lutron lighting installation for a Cheshire home starts from approximately £8,000. A whole-home Crestron and Lutron system for a substantial Cheshire property — covering lighting, AV, climate, security and access — typically starts from £40,000 and can reach £100,000 or more for large estate properties.

Can you take over an existing smart home system in Cheshire?

Yes. Smart home system takeovers are a major part of our Cheshire workload. We audit, diagnose, reprogramme to our standard, replace outdated hardware and enrol the system in our remote monitoring service.

Do you offer smart home support in Cheshire?

Yes. Every installation is enrolled in remote monitoring from day one. We offer annual maintenance contracts with scheduled visits and priority response. With our Didsbury base, we provide on-site response across Cheshire — typically within the hour for urgent call-outs across central Cheshire.

Can you extend WiFi to a garden room or outbuilding in Cheshire?

Yes. For Cheshire properties with garage conversions, garden cinema rooms, pool houses and annexes, we extend enterprise WiFi to all outbuildings via buried Ethernet cable (our preferred solution) or UniFi building-to-building wireless bridges where cable installation is impractical. All outbuildings join the same Ubiquiti UniFi network as the main house, with the same VLAN structure and Crestron smart home integration.

Smart Home Installer Cheshire — Crestron & Lutron Home Automation

The North West’s most experienced smart home company. Certified Crestron Dealer of Distinction & Lutron dealer since 1998. Based in Didsbury, Manchester.

Custom Controls are a Cheshire-based smart home installer and home automation company with 25 years of experience delivering bespoke Crestron and Lutron systems for luxury residential properties across the North West. We are five-time Crestron Integration Award winners and hold Crestron Dealer of Distinction status. Our Cheshire office is in Didsbury, Manchester at 41 Whitelow Road, M21 9HG — and our engineers are active across all of Cheshire’s most prestigious residential areas: Alderley Edge, Wilmslow, Prestbury, Knutsford, Hale, Bowdon and beyond.

Cheshire is one of our most active UK markets. The county’s concentration of large detached houses, new build developments, country estates and barn conversions is an ideal environment for Crestron whole-home automation — and with our Didsbury base, we typically provide on-site response to Cheshire clients within the hour.

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Smart Home Installation in Cheshire — What We Deliver

Crestron Home Automation. The central intelligence of every Custom Controls Cheshire smart home. Crestron manages everything — lighting, AV, climate, security, access and blinds — from a single bespoke interface. For large Cheshire properties with separate outbuildings, gated entrances and extensive grounds, Crestron’s scalability to manage multiple structures and hundreds of devices is a defining advantage over consumer platforms.

Lutron Lighting & Shading. Lutron Homeworks QSX for Cheshire new builds and major renovations — the specification for Alderley Edge new builds, Prestbury barn conversions and Knutsford country house refurbishments. Lutron RadioRA 3 — fully wireless, no rewiring — for retrofit projects in existing Cheshire homes and period properties. Sivoia motorised blinds and curtains integrated with the lighting system.

Whole-Home Audio Video. Any source to any room across the Cheshire property and its outbuildings. Crestron NVX for 4K video distribution; Bluesound or Crestron NAX for multi-room audio; Kaleidescape for reference-quality cinema source material in the cinema room.

Home Cinema. Cheshire’s most extensive home cinema portfolio — garage conversions, garden cinema rooms, dedicated internal rooms and media rooms. All designed, installed and calibrated by our own team from our Didsbury base. Read more on our Cheshire home cinema page →

Enterprise WiFi & Network. Ubiquiti UniFi or Cisco Meraki wired networks with PoE backbone across the main house and all outbuildings — including extending WiFi to garden rooms, garage conversions and annexes via buried Ethernet cable or UniFi building-to-building wireless bridges. VLAN segmentation separating smart home, personal, security and guest traffic.

Security & Access Control. CCTV, video intercom, intruder alarm and smart access control integrated within the Crestron system. For Cheshire properties with gated driveways, separate garage buildings, pool houses and staff accommodation, Crestron manages every entry point with individual credentials from a single interface.

Smart Home System Takeovers Cheshire

Cheshire has a significant number of smart home systems installed during the 2000s and 2010s by companies that have since closed or moved on. System takeovers are a major part of our Cheshire workload. We audit the existing system, diagnose what is working and what is not, reprogramme to our standard, replace outdated hardware where necessary and enrol the system in our remote monitoring service. If you have a smart home system in Cheshire that is underperforming or no longer supported, contact our Cheshire office.

Smart Home Support & Maintenance Cheshire

Every smart home system we install in Cheshire is enrolled in our remote monitoring service from day one. We receive automatic alerts when any element degrades and resolve the majority remotely. We offer annual smart home maintenance contracts with scheduled preventative maintenance visits, software updates, programming refinements and priority response. With our Didsbury base, we provide rapid on-site response across all Cheshire postcodes — typically within the hour for urgent call-outs across central Cheshire.

Cheshire Smart Home Case Studies

Knutsford, Cheshire

A whole-home Crestron and Lutron installation in a large Knutsford property — one of our most complete Cheshire smart home references. Crestron manages AV distribution to every room, underfloor heating across all zones, swimming pool systems, security with full perimeter CCTV and gate automation. Lutron Homeworks QSX controls all interior and exterior lighting. The centrepiece is the dedicated cinema room — 4.5m Screen Excellence screen, Sony laser projection, Artcoustic 7.2.4 Dolby Atmos and Kaleidescape — accessible from the same iPad as every other system in the property.

Luxury Garage Cinema, Cheshire

A whole-property Crestron smart home installation in a substantial Cheshire property, with the garage cinema as the technology showpiece. Crestron manages AV distribution to twelve rooms, Lutron lighting control throughout, underfloor heating, security integration and gate automation. The garage cinema room — with Artcoustic 9.2.4 Dolby Atmos, Trinnov processing and Kaleidescape — is integrated into the wider system so a single Crestron scene transitions the whole property into cinema mode: external security lighting activates, internal zones go to their quiet settings and the cinema pre-loads the last film paused.

Prestbury Entertainment Complex, Cheshire

A large Prestbury country property where Crestron manages the main house and a purpose-built garden entertainment complex as a single unified system. The garden complex — cinema, games room, bar and terrace — is fully integrated with the main house: the same Crestron touchpanel that controls the house also manages the garden complex, and the same Lutron lighting scenes transition across both buildings simultaneously. The most technically complex Cheshire multi-building installation in our portfolio.

Country Estate, Derbyshire

A large country estate installation from our North of England portfolio demonstrating the scale of Crestron smart home that our Didsbury team regularly delivers. The estate’s main house, guest cottage and extensive grounds are managed as a single Crestron system — AV distribution, Lutron lighting, underfloor heating, enterprise WiFi across all buildings, CCTV and gate automation. A reference project for large multi-building estate installations across the North of England.

Cheshire Areas We Serve

Alderley Edge · Wilmslow · Prestbury · Knutsford · Hale · Hale Barns · Bowdon · Altrincham · Bramhall · Poynton · Macclesfield · Nantwich · Chester · Tarporley · Northwich · Frodsham · Congleton and all Cheshire postcodes. We also work regularly across Greater Manchester, Lancashire, North Yorkshire and the wider North of England.