Wet systems and radiators
Zone valves and room sensors let each area run to its own schedule, without replacing radiators or lifting floors.
Smart home systems · Heating
Smart Heating.
The right temperature in the right room at the right time. Multi-zone control that follows your routine rather than a timer.
Most homes heat every room to the same temperature on the same schedule, whether anyone is in them or not. Multi-zone control heats rooms independently, follows how the household actually moves through the day, and integrates with the boiler and underfloor you already have. It is where the largest energy savings in a smart home come from, and it retrofits without rewiring.
One thermostat is the problem.
A single thermostat in the hall measures one spot and heats the whole house to suit it. The bedrooms overheat, the room above the garage never warms up, and the schedule bears no relation to when anyone is actually in. Zoning fixes the geometry; scheduling fixes the timing; the two together are what produce the saving.
The measure of a heating system is not the app. It's that nobody in the house ever thinks about it.
How retrofit works
It fits the heating you already have.
Smart heating is added at the boiler and at the zones. In most homes that means no rewiring and no disruption to the pipework.
Underfloor heating
Underfloor is slow to respond, which is exactly why it benefits most from proper scheduling rather than being switched on when someone feels cold.
Alongside the boiler you own
We integrate with the existing boiler and controls wherever they are sound, rather than making a new boiler a condition of the system.
What's included.
Four things define a properly zoned heating system.
01
Multi-zone control
Rooms and areas heated independently, so the bedrooms and the living space no longer share one schedule and one sensor.
02
Boiler and underfloor integration
Works with the wet system, radiators and underfloor you already have, including mixed systems across different floors.
03
Schedules that follow your routine
Programmed around when the house is actually used, then adjusted after you have lived with it for a few weeks.
04
One app, with the rest of the house
Heating sits in the same app and the same keypads as lighting and audio, so it becomes part of a scene rather than another icon.
Where zoning pays for itself.
- 01Older housing stock
Rooms that never behave the same.
A cold room above the garage, a hot south-facing bedroom, an extension that lags behind the rest of the house. Zoning treats them as separate problems instead of averaging them into one.
- 02Working from home
The house is occupied differently now.
One or two rooms in use all day and the rest empty. A single schedule heats all of it. Zoning heats the study and leaves the rest alone.
- 03Renovation or extension
New underfloor meeting old radiators.
Mixed systems are common after an extension and are exactly where a single thermostat struggles most, because the two respond at completely different speeds.
Investment.
Heating scales with the number of zones rather than the size of the house. A typical multi-zone retrofit across a family home starts around £2,000, including design, programming and installation.
Smart heating
£2,000 to £8,000
Including design, programming and installation
Quoted from a zone-by-zone design against your existing system. Heating is frequently the second phase clients add to a Starter, because it retrofits without disruption.
Showroom · Middlesbrough
Ask the awkward questions.
Heating is harder to demonstrate than lighting, so the showroom visit is more of a conversation: what your system is now, what zoning would actually change, and where the saving does and doesn't come from. We will tell you if the answer is a better schedule rather than a bigger system.
Demonstration rooms also in Yorkshire, London, Surrey, Hertfordshire and Hampshire.
Zoning is a design job, not a product.
Most disappointing smart heating installs are correctly installed products applied to the wrong zoning plan.
Designed around the building
Zones drawn from how the house is built and used, not from where the existing wiring happens to run.
Integrated, not islanded
Heating that sits inside the same system as lighting and security, so away and goodnight scenes include it.
Tuned after you live with it
The follow-up visit is where the schedules get honest. We expect to adjust them once you have used the system for a few weeks.
Platforms
- Control4
- Heatmiser
- Loxone
- Lutron
Control4 Certified · Lutron Trained
FAQ.
- How much does smart heating cost in the UK?
- A typical multi-zone retrofit across a family home starts around £2,000 and runs to about £8,000, including design, programming and installation. Cost scales with the number of zones rather than the size of the house, so a large open-plan home can be cheaper to zone than a smaller one cut into many rooms.
- Will it work with my existing boiler and underfloor heating?
- In most cases yes. Smart heating is added at the boiler and at the zone valves rather than replacing the wet system, and mixed setups with underfloor downstairs and radiators upstairs are common. We survey the existing system first and tell you honestly if something needs replacing.
- Do I need to rewire for smart heating?
- Usually not. Zoning is added at the manifold, the valves and the boiler, with wireless room sensors where cabling would mean lifting a finished floor. It is one of the least disruptive parts of a smart home to retrofit.
- Does smart heating actually save money?
- It can, and the saving comes from heating fewer rooms for fewer hours rather than from the technology itself. The homes that save most are the ones that were heating empty rooms on a fixed schedule. If your house is already well zoned and sensibly scheduled, we will tell you the saving is small.
- Can I add heating to a system I already have?
- Yes, and it is the most common second phase. If your lighting or control system is already on Control4, heating joins the same app and the same keypads rather than arriving as another separate product.
Get the heating right.
Tell us how the house is built and how you actually use it, and we'll tell you whether zoning is worth doing and where the saving really is.