CCTV Installation Tawa

A camera system is only useful if it covers the right spots and keeps recording when you need it. Our security camera installation in Tawa covers homes and businesses: wired and wifi cameras, doorbell cameras, recorders and phone viewing. We walk the property with you first, agree what each camera should see, and give you a written price before any gear is ordered.

Tawa CCTV on both sides of the valley, from Linden to the infill sections

Tawa's camera jobs split between the valley floor and the slopes. Post-war houses and the state housing at Kenepuru and Hampton Hill from the late 1950s and early 1960s often sit with a driveway and a garage beside or behind the house. There, a driveway camera and front and back door cameras cover the usual approaches. On the hilly sides of the valley and in Linden, sections slope and the garage can be well below the house, which means a longer cable run planned around banks.

Infill has changed the picture too. Where an older quarter acre has been subdivided, the original house and a newer home can share a long right of way. We aim cameras at your own door and parking rather than down the shared drive, and use privacy masking where the view cannot avoid the neighbour. On those subdivided sections the newer home usually has a modern board ready for an extra circuit, while the original house may not.

Wind zones vary from site to site, and a council LIM for one Tawa address records a Very High wind zone, so exposed walls get short rigid camera mounts screwed into framing. For many of the original homes, the board has little spare space and no RCD protection, so if a new socket is needed for the recorder we check that first and include any protection the new circuit needs in the quote.

Local tip: On a Tawa section with a shared right of way, agree camera angles with your neighbour before install day, which saves adjustments later.

CCTV Installation in Tawa: Local Conditions

Western and northern suburbs homes often sit on sloping sections with driveways, steps and garages below the house. We place cameras to cover the approach from the street, and plan cable routes through the subfloor where the house sits above the ground.

State houses usually have simple layouts, so a small system covering the front door, driveway and back door is often enough.

Homes in Tawa

Tawa's post-war houses and state housing from the late 1950s and early 1960s are generally wired in plastic-sheathed cable, but some early homes may still have rubber-insulated cable in places. Original boards often have rewireable fuses or early breakers, little spare space and no RCD protection. By the mid 1950s more people lived on the hilly sides of the valley or in Linden than on the old valley floor, so many homes sit on slopes. Newer infill homes on subdivided sections generally have modern boards ready for extra circuits.

Tawa is the northernmost suburb within Wellington City, about 15 km north of the central city between Churton Park and Porirua.

Our electricians are in and around Redwood railway station and Tawa College and the rest of Tawa most weeks. For everything else, see electricians in Tawa.

How We Handle CCTV Installation in Tawa

Before we leave we show you how to view live and recorded footage, and explain how long the recorder keeps it. Any new fixed wiring comes with a Certificate of Compliance.

Pricing: a free quote and a fixed price agreed before we start. You get a written, itemised quote, and small jobs can be quoted from photos.

CCTV Installation Jobs We Do in Tawa

Motion zones reset to stop false alerts
Power point installed for a recorder
Extra cameras added to an existing system
Wifi camera on a detached shed
Yard and gate cameras for a workshop