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CCTV Installation Mount Lawley
Character homes with original detail. The cable path gets worked out before anything is opened up.
Get a Free Quote in Mount Lawley
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 Mount Lawley
The things about Mount Lawley that change where a camera goes, or how the cable gets to it.
- Decorative brickwork stays untouched
- Tuck pointing and feature brick are left alone. Where a wall fixing is genuinely the only option it goes into a mortar joint, never the face of a brick.
- Original timber is not drilled
- Fretwork, brackets and verandah posts stay as they are.
- Bullnose verandahs
- There is very little space above one, so cable takes a route around it rather than through it.
- A return verandah is a gift
- A wide soffit gives plenty to mount into, and it is very often the tidiest position on the whole house.
- Where the recorder lives
- Ceiling roses, cornices and pressed detail inside mean it goes in a modern part of the house, a cupboard or the garage.
- Rear additions solve the puzzle
- An eighties or nineties addition at the back is usually the easiest part of the house to work in, and often solves the cable path for the whole job.
What changes the job
What Changes the Job at Your Address
Old cable is the usual surprise. A lot of these homes have had something up before, run where nobody would run it now.
- 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 Mount Lawley
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
The flats along the main roads are strata, and the rear units behind the older homes usually are too.
- 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 Mount Lawley
Will you have to drill into my tuck pointed brickwork?
We avoid it. On a character home the mounting point is almost always the timber fascia, the eave lining, a soffit under the verandah or a modern rear addition.
Where a wall fixing is the only workable option, it goes into a mortar joint rather than the face of a brick, which is far easier to make good later. We will show you the proposed fixing point before anything is drilled.
My house has a low roof space. Can the cable still be hidden?
Nearly always, though the route may be less direct. Older Perth homes often have a shallow space above the main roof and almost nothing above a bullnose verandah, so the cable goes around rather than across.
Where a small section genuinely cannot be crossed, a short length of conduit painted to match the wall is the fallback, and we would tell you that at quoting time rather than on the day.
Can cameras be kept subtle on a heritage street frontage?
Yes, and it is worth asking for. Smaller camera bodies, mounting set back under an eave and choosing a colour that blends with the soffit all make a camera much less noticeable from the footpath.
It changes nothing about the picture. If your property is heritage listed, mention it when you call so the street facing positions can be planned around it.
My property is heritage listed. Does that stop cameras?
Rarely. A camera is not usually a permanent structural change, so it is not the same conversation as an extension.
What it can affect is what is acceptable on the street facing elevation. Tell us up front and the positions get planned around it once instead of twice.
Where does the recorder go in a house like this?
In a modern part of the house, a cupboard or the garage. Ceiling roses, cornices and pressed detail mean we are not cutting into the original rooms to find a spot for it.
It needs a power point, somewhere near the modem, and a bit of air around it. That is the whole requirement.
My street trees have grown a lot. Does that matter?
It does, and it is the thing most often missed. Mature street trees and established front gardens grow into a camera view over a few years.
Positions get picked for what the garden will be, not what it is on the day we visit.