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IBT Controls (Also Trading As EnTech) Promised Me Total Home Automation With KNX, But All I Got Was Added Expense And Months Of Misery

  Approximately thirteen months ago, I signed a contract with EnTech (also known as IBT Controls) of Bredbury, Stockport. I paid them more than £11,000 for the installation of a KNX intelligent home control system  as part of an extensive refurbishment of my house. Now, almost six months after the system went live, my buyers’ remorse is absolute. I’m a writer, so I started this blog to review my experiences with the company. As you can probably guess from my introduction, these experiences have been almost completely negative. There are many reasons why I wouldn’t recommend IBT Controls. To cut a very long story short, here are the top three: 1)     EnTech/IBT Controls failed to deliver a working installation Ever since the system went live in June 2017, there has been no part of it untouched by significant problems. Despite numerous visits, three separate project engineers have failed to make it work. Each time an engineer visits, new and myst...