Smart home installation company in Dubai — from drawings to handover

It follows the fit-out programme rather than a fixed number of weeks. The electrical contractor’s first fix happens before plastering and ceilings, and BUTLER inspects it before they close; panel connection and device installation follow the finishes; programming and commissioning begin once the property is powered and furnished enough to test scenes. On a new villa the installation therefore spans the fit-out; in a completed apartment the work is compressed into the renovation window. The schedule is agreed in writing at the scope stage and tied to the main contractor’s milestones.

By the scope of works. The number of control points, the boards and panels, the equipment specified and the stage at which BUTLER joins the project all set the figure; the cable and containment are priced by the electrical contractor from BUTLER’s cable schedule, so the two estimates can be read side by side. A property at shell and core is priced differently from an occupied home where routes have to be opened and finishes made good. BUTLER’s cost is set once the design and the scope of works are agreed, and it is presented as an itemised estimate.

Yes, and the survey decides how. Where a renovation is planned, the installation follows it and the routes are opened by the contractor with the other works. In an occupied home BUTLER maps which ceilings, risers and skirting can carry new cable, keeps the wired backbone for panels, lighting and network, and uses wireless devices only as a convenience layer where a route genuinely cannot be opened. The scope of works records which finishes are affected and who makes them good.

Yes. BUTLER reviews the drawings and the equipment schedule first, flags what will fail on site — a board with no space for automation modules, a keypad position with no back box, a rack with no cooling — and agrees the corrections with the designer before first fix. Where a project arrives with no installation drawings, BUTLER prepares them at the design stage, which is scoped and priced before installation begins; where full engineering documentation is needed, that is a separate service.

KNX, Lutron, Control4 and Crestron, with network, security and intercom systems chosen to suit the property. The platform is chosen at design stage against the brief and the property rather than fixed in advance, and the installation is carried out by certified specialists under one contract, and BUTLER answers for the result after handover.

BUTLER — for everything it designed, built, connected and programmed. BUTLER’s work carries a twelve-month warranty, set out in the contract; the manufacturers’ warranties on the equipment are passed to you on their own terms, in full; the cable installation remains the electrical contractor’s, with the test records from before the walls closed in the same handover file. Because BUTLER designed the system, inspected the cabling and built everything that runs on it, a fault has one address: the team that holds the as-built drawings and can trace a circuit or a scene to its source. Beyond the warranty, a service contract sets the response time — from a few hours to a couple of days, agreed in writing.

Before first fix — ideally while the interior drawings are being finalised and the main contractor’s programme exists. At that stage board locations, cable routes, keypad positions and rack rooms can still be moved on paper. Joining later is possible, and BUTLER often does, but every week after plastering turns a drawing change into a site change. For a completed property, the right moment is the start of renovation planning, when the routes are decided.