Areas we cover
CCTV Installation Morley
Older stock and subdivided blocks. Two things decide most jobs here: the age of the eaves, and who owns the roof space.
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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 Morley
The things about Morley that change where a camera goes, or how the cable gets to it.
- Eaves built before the late 1980s
- The sheeting may contain asbestos. We do not drill it under any circumstances. The camera goes on timber fascia, a barge board or the wall instead.
- The angle rarely suffers
- Moving off the eave sounds like a compromise. In practice it almost always still gives the position we wanted.
- Split blocks, split roof space
- Where a block has been divided the roof space usually has been too. A camera on the far side of a shared wall cannot be cabled to directly.
- Shared driveways
- If access comes down a shared drive, the head of that drive is where everyone arrives, which makes it the position worth having.
- Say it when you call
- Survey strata or a shared driveway arrangement changes what the quote should say, so it is worth mentioning at the first conversation.
- Rear laneways
- A back gate onto a lane is a second entrance, and it is usually the one with nothing on it.
What changes the job
What Changes the Job at Your Address
Roof type splits this suburb. The original tile homes give us a way in, the newer infill builds on a low pitch steel roof do not.
- 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 Morley
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
Split blocks and duplexes mean a shared wall more often than people expect.
- 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 Morley
I share a driveway with the house in front. Can I still have cameras?
Yes. The camera goes on your own house and covers your own approach, your entry and your parking, which is what you need.
You are entitled to cover your own property, and the sensible approach is to frame it so you are not pointing a camera straight into a neighbour's front door. We set the framing on site and show you the picture before it is locked in.
My house was built in the seventies. Will you have to drill the eaves?
Not if the eave sheeting might contain asbestos, and in homes of that age it often can. We do not drill it.
The camera goes on the timber fascia, a barge board or the wall, and the cable takes a different path into the roof space. That constraint almost never costs you the angle you wanted, it changes the fixing point by a few centimetres.
Is a camera on the back laneway gate worth it?
It usually is, because a rear lane is a second way onto the block that nobody looks at.
The camera goes on the back of the house or on the shed, aimed at the gate, rather than mounted on the gate or the fence where it is within arm's reach. That also keeps it on your own structure, which avoids any argument about what it is fixed to.
How do you know if my eaves contain asbestos?
Age is the first indicator, and anything built before the late 1980s gets treated as suspect.
We do not test it and we do not drill it. The camera moves to timber or the wall, which takes a decision on site and no extra time.
I am in a survey strata at the back. What can I actually do?
Inside your own lot you have a lot of freedom. The complication is anything on shared structure or a shared driveway.
We will tell you which of the positions you want fall into which category before you commit to anything.
Can you reach a position on the far side of a shared wall?
Not by cable through the roof. Where a block has been split the roof space usually has been too, so that side is not ours to pull through.
The position either gets fed a different way or it moves. We will tell you which before you commit to it.