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CCTV Installation Canning Vale
Modern estate homes. Truss roofs, tight setbacks and alfrescos with no eave are what decide the positions.
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Tell us where you are and what you need. We inspect the property, then put the quote in writing before any work begins.
Local notes
What Matters in Canning Vale
The things about Canning Vale that change where a camera goes, or how the cable gets to it.
- Alfrescos with no overhang
- Under the main roof there is no eave to drill. The camera goes on the soffit lining, a return wall at the edge, or out on the patio beam.
- Truss roofs are slow going
- A modern roof is a grid of timber webs at close spacing, which is an awkward crawl and sometimes an impossible one.
- Confirmed from inside the roof
- Because of that, positions here get checked from in the roof space rather than guessed from the ground.
- Zero lot and tight setbacks
- Under a metre needs a wider lens. No side access at all means coverage comes from the front and back corners instead.
- Check for builder conduit
- Some estate homes already have conduit in the walls, which is worth finding before anything new is run.
- Rendered walls show everything
- Fixing points and the sealing behind the bracket get more care here than they would on face brick.
What changes the job
What Changes the Job at Your Address
Two storey is the norm, so the ground floor cameras almost never come from the roof space. They take a wall cavity or a run behind the downpipe.
- How many levels
- A single storey runs through one roof space. A second storey means the ground floor cameras take a wall cavity or a short hidden run outside.
- What the roof is
- Tile lifts and gives us a way in. A low pitch steel roof leaves very little crawl space, so the route has to change.
- Where the recorder can live
- It needs power, somewhere out of the heat and a path back to the router. Usually that is the garage, a cupboard or the roof space.
- Whether there is cable already
- An older system can leave usable cable in the walls. We test it rather than assume it, and reuse whatever passes.
What We Install in Canning Vale
All of it is available here. Each one starts the same way, with an inspection of the property and a written quote before anything is touched.
CCTV InstallationA full set of cameras and a recorder fitted to your house, with the cabling hidden in the roof space.
Security Camera Upgrades and ReplacementsReplace tired cameras or a dead recorder, keeping whatever part of the old system is still worth using.
CCTV Repairs and Fault FindingCameras dropping out, a recorder that has stopped recording, or an app that no longer connects, traced and fixed.
Video Doorbells and IntercomsSee and talk to whoever is at your door or front gate, from inside the house or your phone.
Alarm SystemsA house alarm fitted on its own or wired in with your cameras, so an alert comes with a picture.
Remote Viewing and Phone App SetupYour cameras on your phone, with alerts that are worth reading and footage you can find quickly.
Before we drill
Strata, Rentals and Shared Walls
Zero lot homes sit close together, so the boundary question comes up even where strata does not.
- Strata and common property
- Anything fixed to a shared wall, a common roof or a lobby goes to the owners corporation first. We put the request in writing so you have something to hand over.
- Renting the place
- We ask for the owner's permission before anything is drilled. Where that is not on, we will show you what can go up without fixings.
- Shared walls and boundaries
- We aim the camera at your property, show you the frame before it is fixed, and move it if it takes in more of next door than it needs to.
Common Questions in Canning Vale
My side setback is barely a metre. Is a camera there worth it?
Yes, but the lens matters more than usual. In a narrow run a standard lens fills the frame with fence and gives you very little, so a wider lens is used to take in the whole width of the path.
Mounting it further forward and angling down its length also helps. If the setback is truly zero, we cover that side from the front and rear corners instead.
There is no eave over my alfresco. Where does the camera go?
On the soffit lining under the main roof, on a return wall at the edge of the alfresco, or on the patio beam, depending on what you want it to see.
Each option gives a different view of the back doors and the yard. We check the picture from each before fixing anything, since the easiest surface is not always the right one.
Is it cheaper to do the cabling while my house is being built?
Considerably, because the labour is the expensive part and open walls remove most of it. Cable goes in before the ceiling and linings go up, so nothing has to be pulled through a finished roof.
You do not have to buy the cameras at the same time, either. The cable can sit ready in the wall and be finished off once the house is done.
Front loaded garage. Where does the driveway camera go?
On the opposite corner. A double garage at the front blocks the view straight down one side of the drive.
Coming from the other corner gives you the length of the driveway and the approach to the front door in one position.
How do I know if my builder left conduit in the walls?
Some estate homes have it and plenty do not, and it is worth finding out before anything new gets run.
We check for it as part of the quote. Where it is there it can save a good deal of the work.
My estate was built in stages. Does that change anything?
It can. Roof construction varies street to street in a staged estate, sometimes noticeably.
The roof space gets looked at rather than assumed from the year the estate started.