Reliable Home CCTV Perth

It depends on how many cameras you need, how hard the cable is to run at your place and what you want the system to do. A single storey house with an accessible roof space is a very different job to a two storey home where the cable has to be fed down wall cavities.

We inspect the house and put the figure in writing before anything is touched. That way the price you are quoted is the price for your house, not a package built for someone else's.

The count comes from how many ways there are onto your block, not how many rooms you have. A standard single storey home with a front, one side gate and a back yard is usually well covered by four.

Corner blocks, two storey homes, shared driveways, rear laneways and detached sheds all add positions. We walk the property with you and identify which positions are essential and which are optional.

There is one small hole per camera, and the camera bracket sits over the top of it. In most cases that hole is in the timber fascia or the eave lining rather than in your brickwork.

The cable itself runs above the ceiling through the roof space, so nothing is stapled to the outside of your house. Where a house has eave sheeting that may contain asbestos, we do not drill it and select a different mounting point.

Yes, from anywhere with mobile data or wifi, including overseas. The app on your phone connects to the recorder sitting in your house through your home internet connection.

We set it up on your phone before we leave, and on any other phone in the household that needs it. You are also shown how to locate footage from a few days earlier and how to save a clip from it.

Yes, and that is when they do most of their work. Most cameras switch to infrared after dusk, which gives a clear black and white picture using light you cannot see.

Some models hold full colour at night instead by using a small built in warm light, which is better for picking out a car colour or clothing. We check the night picture on site after dark rather than relying on the manufacturer's claim.

That depends on the size of the hard drive, how many cameras you have and what resolution they record at. The recorder fills the drive and then writes over the oldest footage, so you always have a rolling window rather than a drive that fills and stops.

Tell us how far back you need to be able to look and the drive is sized to match rather than estimated.

Not for the recording. The footage is written to the hard drive inside the recorder at your house, so an internet outage does not create a gap in what was recorded.

What you need the internet for is the live view on your phone, the alerts and remote playback. All of those come back on their own once the connection returns.

For a Perth house, wired is the better choice in nearly every case. Double brick walls, a tiled roof and thirty metres of back yard all weaken a wifi signal, and when a wifi camera drops out the drop out itself is never recorded, so you cannot tell it happened.

Wired cameras also record continuously rather than waking up on motion and missing the first moment. Wireless still has a place for awkward indoor spots where cable is impractical.

Yes, and a significant share of our work is exactly that. It does not matter who installed it or what brand it is, including kits bought from a hardware store.

We assess the cable, the recorder and the cameras, then tell you plainly which parts are still serviceable and which are not. Sound cable already in your roof is normally retained, which keeps the job smaller.

We cover all of Perth, from the northern suburbs down to the southern coast and out to the eastern edge of the metro area.

If you are outside that, call us anyway and we will confirm on the spot whether we cover you. It is a short conversation and it saves you chasing quotes from installers who were never going to travel.