Data and Security

Yes — it is the same trade and the same standard of work, just its own page because houses and small businesses ask for data and network cabling on its own just as often as it comes bundled into a bigger commercial fit-out. It is the same Cat6 or Cat6A cabling, terminated into a proper patch panel, tested and certified the same way, whether the job is three points in a house or thirty across an office floor. The only real difference is scale — a home job is usually a single visit, where a larger commercial run might need a comms cupboard or small rack to keep everything organised and labelled properly.

Yes, and it is the smart way to do it, particularly during a renovation or new build where walls are already open. We run and terminate the cabling for cameras, access control or an alarm panel to sensible locations — eaves, entry points, a central cupboard for the recorder or panel — even before you have picked a specific system or brand, since standard cabling works with most equipment on the market. That way, when you are ready to install cameras or an alarm in six months or two years, it is a matter of connecting equipment to cable that is already in place, rather than chasing open walls again, patching, and repainting a second time.

This service covers the cabling, network points and comms infrastructure side of things. If you also need cameras or an alarm panel supplied and installed, that falls under our CCTV & Security Cameras service, which we are happy to quote together with the cabling as one job, so you are dealing with one trade and one invoice rather than coordinating two separate contractors and hoping their work lines up.

WiFi covers most day-to-day use fine, but wired points still matter in a few situations — a security camera or recorder that needs a reliable, always-on connection rather than something that can drop out, a home office where video calls and file transfers benefit from a stable connection, or a media setup like a smart TV or streaming box where you want it off the WiFi entirely. We often end up doing a hybrid setup: a few key wired points to the places that need them, plus a properly positioned WiFi access point or two to cover the rest of the house, rather than trying to wire every single room.

For most houses a small, tidy patch panel in a cupboard is plenty — enough to terminate all your data points cleanly, plug in a switch, and know which cable goes where without guessing. A full rack setup is more of a business or larger-property thing, where you might have a server, more networking equipment, or a security system's recorder all living in the same spot. We size it to what you actually need rather than sell you rack equipment a normal household has no use for, but even a modest patch panel is worth doing properly, since an unlabelled tangle of cable in a cupboard is genuinely hard to troubleshoot later.

We test it. Older cabling — anything that predates Cat6, or Cat6 that was terminated poorly — can still work for basic internet but often will not reliably support higher speeds or things like security cameras that draw power over the data cable. We can test your existing runs, tell you which ones pass to current standard and which do not, and recommend replacing only what is actually causing a problem rather than assuming everything needs to be redone. Sometimes it is one bad run rather than the whole house.