How Much Does a Smart Home Cost?
Self-Build Smart Home Specification Budgeting Tool
Building your dream self-build home can be an extremely exciting, fulfilling, and ultimately satisfying project...if you get it right.
Invariably, it can also include researching a large range of topics from construction methods and materials, to various different solutions that could be incorporated to enhance your future home.
The activities can quickly mount up, with a range of tasks ranging from:
- Creating the optimum room layouts
- Selecting aesthetically pleasing interior and exterior finishes
- Finding the most effective suppliers for your desired fixtures and furniture
- Managing a multitude of potential new supply and installation companies
- A long process of liaising with each of these companies to outline your project and specific requirements
- A series of back and forth communications with all the companies to create a bespoke quotation involving numerous refinements to the quotation through several iterations to reach the correct level of functionality at a suitable price
Often, you might have to engage with several different suppliers of the same system until you can find an ideal fit for your project.
Very quickly, your dream project can become a laborious, time-consuming and frustrating exercise in supplier management to even get to the point of understanding the potential budgetary costs of your new home. Once you have selected your preferred suppliers, then you will have to review each of their different contractual terms and conditions. After signing all these different contracts, you will then will need to liaise with all the companies individually to provide the relevant purchasing authorisations and payments.
It also means that once the work onsite starts, you have a host of different companies that need to be project managed so they can supply their goods and services in line with the overall project plan and co-ordinated with all the other trades onsite.
Automated Spaces has the perfect solution! We can help you minimise the number of different suppliers you need to engage with, as we can partner with you on your project to provide you with a wide range of different solutions from one single source.
As a result, this will provide you with the following benefits:
- You can spend less time engaging with suppliers to get to the point of understanding the budgetary costs
- You have less contractual terms and conditions documents to review
- Less separate purchasing authorisations and payments to create and release
- Significantly less companies to project manage and co-ordinate onsite with the other trades
- We can offer you enhanced discounts based upon a volume purchase of several systems at the same time
To assist you further with the initial budget planning process, Automated Spaces has developed the following ‘Self-Build Smart Home Specification Budgeting Tool’ to make it easy to identify indicative costs associated with adding the following types of solutions to your self-build home:
Safety & Security
- Home Security Design Service
- Intruder Alarm
- CCTV
- Internet Connected Door Bell
- Water Leak Prevention
Home Entertainment
- Multi-Room Audio
- New TVs & Mounting on Walls
- Media Rooms
- Home Cinema Rooms
Smart Lighting
- Smart Lighting Design Service
- Smart Lighting Interior
- Smart Lighting Exterior
Comfort & Convenience
- Motorised Shades
- Control of Underfloor Heating
- Control of Radiator Zones & Hot Water
Intelligent Networking
- Wi-Fi Indoor
- Wi-Fi Outdoor
- TV Wall Sockets
- Data Wall Sockets
User Experience
- Smart Remote Controls
- In-wall Touch Screens
The smart home specification budgeting tool will then automatically specify the following ‘Smart Home’ elements to compliment your selected solutions:
Control4 Smart Home System
- Control4 Smart Hub
- Additional Control4 Equipment
Core Network Equipment
- Router
- Network Switches
- Patch Panel
Server Rack & Rack Equipment
- Server Rack
- Power Distribution Unit (PDU)
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Use the Self-Build Smart Home Specification Budgeting Tool to explore the types of solutions available to add to your dream self-build home for your available budget. You can alter the specified solutions and see the changes in charges adjust in real time.
Then, once you have finalised your preferred specification you can request an email with a PDF summary of the commercials. We will also include on the PDF summary a special volume discount based on the amount of solutions you include within the specification i.e., the more elements you include the higher the level of volume discount we can apply.
If you have any questions or feedback about the Self-Build Smart Home Specification Budgeting Tool or any other way we could assist you with creating your dream self-build, please feel free to contact us.
Alternatively, if you have an existing home and would like to retroactively add smart home solutions, please feel free to contact us and we can create a bespoke quotation for your specific home and requirements.
