Consult

You need vision. Is it a new house or an old one, and what can still be done?

When we design a home network we design it with the future in mind. Years of upgrading networks that were never planned have given us hindsight, and hindsight has given us foresight. We would rather spend that on your drawings than on your finished walls.

Almost nothing in a home is offline any more

Televisions, desks, the kitchen appliances, electricity monitoring, security sensors, cameras, air-conditioning, lighting, music, Wi-Fi, the gate and the intercom, telephony, the internet connection itself. Every one of them wants a reliable data connection, and the list grows every year. You cannot connect something that does not exist yet, but you can make sure the route for it is already in the wall.

Conservative building has not kept up

Standard construction practice was written for a house with one telephone point. We are under no illusion that a house built to that standard will be compliant with what a modern family needs. We will tell you plainly what can and should be done to get as close as possible, and what it will cost to fix later if you do not.

• Where every screen, speaker, camera, desk and access point will live
• How the internet enters the house and where the hub sits
• Which rooms need a wired point and which can rely on Wi-Fi
• What to leave in the walls for the next ten years

Thank you for the consultation, it opened my eyes to the possibilities when I renovate my penthouse. F.G., Cape Town CBD