CCTV & Security Cameras — Installed by a Licensed Sparkie
From a four-camera house system to full perimeter coverage on a hills acreage block or a winery cellar door. Hard-wired PoE, proper cabling, NVR setup, mobile app sorted. Installed by a real electrician, not a weekend handyman.
Who this is for
- Homeowners wanting four to eight cameras covering the house, driveway and back boundary
- Acreage blocks in the hills that need perimeter coverage where there's no street lighting
- Swan Valley cellar doors with big weekend foot traffic wanting customer-area coverage
- Small commercial premises along Great Eastern Highway — loading bays, workshop entrances, shopfronts
- Property managers wanting reliable coverage on rentals and investment properties
What a proper CCTV install includes
Every job is different but the frame is the same:
Site walk-around first
Camera siting is 80% of whether the system actually works. Too high and you get top-of-head shots. Wrong angle and the bright morning sun blinds the lens every day at 7am. We work out sightlines before a hole gets drilled.
Hard-wired PoE cabling
Through ceilings, wall cavities and external conduit where needed. I prefer PoE over wireless for anything more than a doorbell camera — wireless drops out, PoE doesn't.
NVR (Network Video Recorder) setup
With proper storage sized for how long you want to keep footage.
Network integration
Hooking the system into your existing router without opening up your home network to anything dodgy.
Mobile app configured
So you can actually check the cameras from your phone without ringing me every six months for the password.
A walk-through when it's done
So you know how to review footage, export clips for insurance or police, and troubleshoot the obvious stuff yourself.
Common jobs on this side of town
Hills acreage perimeter
Helena Valley, Gidgegannup, Mundaring
Long runs from the house to driveway entrances, shed corners, and rural-fringe boundaries where there's no visibility from the street. PoE over armoured cable or conduit is the standard here. Often combined with motion-activated floodlights.
Swan Valley cellar doors and function venues
Cameras covering customer areas, tasting bars, car parks and back-of-house wine storage. Bigger weekend foot traffic means more incidents, and the insurance premium difference once you've got proper coverage is usually worth the job on its own.
Midland and Midvale investor rentals
Property managers wanting front/back coverage on tenancies where there's been break-in history. Hardwired units the tenant can't unplug.
Great Eastern Highway trade premises
Loading bay, roller door, shopfront, workshop. Coverage of insurance-nominated points so the premium stays reasonable.
Why a licensed electrician should do this
You don't legally need an electrician's licence to install CCTV — but you do need it for the 240V side of any powered unit, and once you're running cables through walls, drilling external conduit, and integrating into your switchboard for PoE power supplies, you want someone who actually understands the electrical side.
Plenty of CCTV-only installers do decent camera work and then leave a rat's nest of 240V spaghetti that fails inspection at sale time. Or they plug a whole eight-camera system into a single double-adapter behind the TV because "the customer said that was fine." I'm EC 9715. Everything's run properly. If the house goes on the market, nothing the system's touched will fail an RCD test.
What it costs
Jobs vary too much for a fixed price online and anyone quoting you one without a site visit is guessing. A ballpark:
- Simple 4-camera house install with NVR: usually a one-day job
- 6-8 camera house or small commercial: 1–2 days depending on cable runs
- Hills acreage perimeter with long PoE runs: 2–3 days depending on external conduit and floodlight integration
I'll do a free site walk, agree the camera positions with you, and write a fixed quote before any drilling starts. You get a number, not a "from" figure that balloons on invoice day.
Existing system not working?
I do fault finding and upgrades on CCTV that another installer put in. Most common calls: NVR won't record, mobile app stopped working after a router change, one camera died, night vision's poor, coverage has blind spots.
Service area
Midland, Midvale, Bellevue, Greenmount, Swan View, Jane Brook, Helena Valley, Guildford, Eden Hill, Stratton, Woodbridge, Koongamia, Viveash, Mundaring, Parkerville, Stoneville, Sawyers Valley, Chidlow, Darlington, Glen Forrest, Hovea, Mahogany Creek, Bailup, Gidgegannup, Caversham, West Swan, Middle Swan, Herne Hill, Millendon, Brigadoon, Belhus, Baskerville, Henley Brook, Dayton, Bullsbrook.
Related pages
Send me a photo of where you want cameras
Sketch, rough marks with arrows, or a quick video walk-around. I'll come out for a proper site look and quote.