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Residential CCTV and security camera installation

Replace tired cameras or a dead recorder, keeping whatever part of the old system is still worth using.

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Tell us what is already on the house and what it is not doing for you. The brand, or roughly when it went in, both help.

We work out what can stay, what has to go, and whether the cable already in the roof can be reused. That answer is what moves the price.

  • Free written quote before any work starts
  • All of Perth covered
  • Cabling hidden through the roof space
  • We show you how to use it before we leave
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Tell us about the property, where you would like cameras, and anything already installed.

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Upgrades and Replacements in Perth

Plenty of Perth homes already have cameras. Most went in years ago, or came out of a box from a hardware store.

  • The picture has gone soft
  • The app has stopped working
  • Half the cameras are dark

We inspect what is there, then quote in writing on what gets replaced and what stays.

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An old video recorder being lifted off a garage shelf, its cables unplugged and coiled beside it

Scoping

What an Upgrade Usually Involves

Three shapes this takes, depending on what is already on the house.

Same positions, better cameras

Cabling stays

  • Existing cable reused wherever it tests clean
  • New cameras onto the same mounting points
  • Recorder swapped only if it cannot drive them

A few more angles

Some new cable

  • The gaps you have lived with finally get covered
  • New runs pulled through the roof space
  • One recorder running the old and the new together

Start again on the same house

Full replacement

  • Old kit taken down and taken away
  • Positions planned fresh rather than inherited
  • One brand end to end so the app behaves

Which of these you need is a site question. We test what is there before quoting to replace it.

Best for
An old or half working system already on the house
Existing cable
Reused where it is sound, replaced where it is not
Old equipment
Taken away, or left with you if you want it
Quote
Free and in writing after we inspect what is there

Worth a look

Signs Your System Is Past It

These are the ones people put up with for years before calling.

  • Faces turn to a blur the moment you zoom in.

  • Night footage is a wash of white where the sensor light sits.

  • The recorder only holds a few days before it writes over itself.

  • Half the cameras are one brand and half are another.

  • The app was never set up, so footage only comes off the box.

  • It went in with the house and nobody has looked at it since.

What you get

How We Do Upgrades and Replacements

  • We Reuse What Is Worth Reusing

    Sound cable in your roof stays. You paid for that labour once and should not pay twice.

  • Straight Talk About the Old System

    If yours only needs a new hard drive, you get told that, not quoted a full replacement.

  • No Gap in Coverage

    Cameras are swapped one at a time, so the house is never left blind for long.

  • Old Holes Made Good

    Every bracket that comes off leaves a hole. They get filled and sealed, not left for wasps.

  • Your Footage History Considered

    If something on the old drive matters to you, say so early and it is pulled off first.

  • A Free Written Quote After a Proper Inspection

    The quote comes after the recorder and the cable are inspected, not from a phone description.

Placement

What We Look At Before Quoting an Upgrade

Most of the decision gets made standing underneath the old camera. Three things tell us whether this is a swap or a rebuild.

A camera that still powers up is not the same as a camera still doing its job. Most of what we replace was working, just not well enough to identify anyone.

An old white bullet camera mounted under a peeling timber eave on a brick wall, its housing chalky and sun faded and the clear front hazed over, with a thin cable running from the back of it along the eave and into a hole in the brickwork
  1. 1

    The front of the camera

    Sun turns the clear cover chalky and yellow. It still records, it just records a soft grey picture that will not identify anyone.

  2. 2

    The bracket and its seal

    If the seal behind the bracket has gone, water has been getting in there for years. That decides whether the position can be reused at all.

  3. 3

    Where the cable goes in

    What sort of cable is at this hole is the whole question. Cable that tests clean saves you most of the labour on an upgrade.

A laundry shelf with a clean new black recorder sitting in place on it and an older dusty recorder standing on the floor below beside a coil of removed cable, a washing machine to one side

The swap

What You Keep and What Gets Replaced

An upgrade is rarely everything. The parts that cost the most in labour are usually the parts that stay.

The cable usually stays
Pulling new cable through a finished roof is the expensive part of any job. If what is already there tests clean, it stays and you spend the money on cameras.
The recorder usually goes
It ages worse than anything else and everything has to talk to it. A new camera on an old recorder is held back by the old recorder.
Positions get reviewed, not reused
An existing hole is only worth keeping if the old angle was right. Plenty of them were aimed at a roofline or into a hedge.

Common Questions About Upgrades and Replacements

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The old gear leaves with us unless you want to hang on to it.
Can you upgrade a system that someone else installed?

Yes, that is most of this work. It does not matter who put it in or what brand it is.

We look at the cable, the recorder and the cameras, tell you which parts are still doing their job, and quote on replacing the rest. There is no problem with taking over a system we did not originally fit.

Do I need new cable, or can you use what is already there?

Often the existing cable is fine and stays. Data cable in a roof space is well protected and lasts a long time.

It gets replaced when it has been damaged by rodents, when it has been run through a spot that gets very hot, when it is the wrong type for the new cameras, or when the run simply does not go where you want a camera now.

Can I add more cameras to the system I already have?

Sometimes, and the limiting factor is your recorder. Recorders come with a fixed number of camera channels, commonly four, eight or sixteen.

If you have four cameras on a four channel recorder, a fifth camera means a bigger recorder as well. We check the channel count and the spare capacity before quoting.

My cameras are fine but the recording has stopped. Is that fixable?

Usually, and it is often the hard drive rather than the whole system. Drives in recorders write continuously and they do wear out.

Replacing the drive is a much smaller job than replacing the system, and if that is all yours needs, that is what we will quote.

Will new cameras work with my old recorder?

Sometimes, but it is worth checking before you spend anything. Older recorders often cannot handle the resolution that new cameras record at, and features from one brand of camera frequently do not appear on another brand of recorder.

We test rather than assume, and tell you what you would be giving up.

What happens to the old equipment?

It comes down and goes with us unless you would rather keep it. Some people keep an old camera as a spare or want the hard drive kept for a while, and that is fine.

Let us know before the day so it is not packed into the van by mistake.

Can you upgrade some of the cameras and leave the rest for now?

Yes, and it is a sensible way to spread the work out. The usual approach is to replace the cameras doing the important jobs first, normally the driveway and the front door, then come back to the rest later.

The thing to check is your recorder, because old and new cameras both have to work with whatever they are plugged into. We test that mix before quoting so you are not left with a camera that will not come up on screen.

The system came with the house and nobody has the password. Can you still work on it?

Yes. Most recorders can be reset to a fresh login by somebody standing in front of the box, and where they cannot, the recorder is being replaced as part of the upgrade anyway.

What a lost password really costs you is access to the recordings sitting on the old drive, so mention it early if any of that matters to you.

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