Connected home
Smart home installed on solid foundations
Lighting, heating, locks and blinds that work because the network underneath them was built first.
- Hampshire-based engineers
- Fixed-price quotes
- Setup & handover included
Smart home kit fails for one reason more than any other: it's sitting on Wi-Fi that can't cope. We build the network first, then add the devices to it.
We'll install what you'll actually use and say so when something isn't worth the money.
Typically
- Common start
- Lighting + heating, one room at a time
- Platforms
- Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa
- Time on site
- One to two days
Why it's worth it
Reliable, not fiddly
Devices sit on a network built to carry them, so lights and heating respond when you ask.
Works with what you use
Set up in Apple Home, Google Home or Alexa — whichever the household already has.
Start small
One room or one system first. Add more when you've seen what's worth it.
Shown to everyone
We hand over to the whole household, not just whoever booked.
Options
Pick what suits your budget
Start with one room
Smart lighting and heating in the room you use most, on a network that can take more later.
Lighting, heating controls
Whole-home system
Lighting, heating, locks, blinds and audio planned together, grouped by room and named sensibly.
Apple Home, Google Home, Alexa
Network first
If the Wi-Fi can't cope, we fix that first — it's the reason most smart home kit lets people down.
See Home Wi-Fi
Included
What you get
- Smart lighting and switches installed and grouped by room
- Heating controls and zoning
- Smart locks and access control
- Blinds and curtain automation
- Multi-room audio and connected TV points
- Set up in Apple Home, Google Home or Alexa — your choice
Not included
What we don't do
- Electrical work requiring a Part P certificate (we work with an electrician)
- Subscription automation platforms we don't install
- Remote troubleshooting after handover
The job
How this one runs
01
Talk it through
What you want to happen, room by room, in plain terms.
02
Design
Devices chosen for the platform you already use.
03
Install
Fitted, named sensibly, and grouped so the app makes sense.
04
Handover
We show the household how to use it, not just you.
Often booked with
Recent work
From our projects
Warsash, Hampshire
Building a smart home that works as one system
A one-acre property where the brief was simply 'what could we do to make the house smart?' — so we started with the infrastructure, not the gadgets.
Read the case study →
Cosham, Hampshire
A security-first network for a connected home
A Portsmouth home where an ISP router and consumer mesh kit were replaced with a segmented UniFi network, ten cameras, plate-recognition gate access and gigabit fibre.
Read the case study →From a customer
“Highly recommended — exceptional service and support”
We have used ARK Home to manage and support virtually all of our home technology requirements, and I cannot recommend them highly enough.
They have installed and continue to maintain our personal IT systems, supplied and installed a monitored alarm system, and, most importantly, finally resolved the Wi-Fi problems we had struggled with for years. They also took over our internet service and upgraded us from what had previously been a very slow and unreliable connection to a significantly faster and more dependable service.
Next step
Tell us what you want installing — or what's stopped working
Send us a note about the property and what you're trying to fix. We'll tell you what's involved, what it costs, and whether it needs a survey or just a repair call-out.