CCTV for villas and houses with land
Castellvell del Camp has grown up right against Reus, with streets of detached houses, gardens and estates climbing towards the hills. Many houses have more than one way in, poorly lit corners and hours of the day when nobody is home. That is why CCTV is one of the jobs we are asked for most here.
How we set out a camera system on a house in Castellvell:
- A walk round the plot: we identify the front door, the vehicle entrance, the sides and the back.
- IP cameras with night vision wired back to an NVR recorder, ideally by cable so they do not depend on the wifi.
- Access from your phone to watch live and go back through recordings.
- Meeting the GDPR: cameras aimed at your own property and a monitored-area notice on display.
If you already have an older setup with a DVR and analogue cameras, we will tell you whether it is worth keeping or whether moving to IP makes more sense.
When the wifi will not reach the garden
The provider’s router usually ends up in the living room. In a two-storey house with thick walls, and more so if there is a pool or a covered terrace at the far end, the signal runs out. We solve that with wifi solutions worked out for each home:
- Mesh systems with several nodes forming a single network.
- Wired access points, which give more stability than cheap repeaters.
- Powerline adapters when cable cannot be run between floors.
- An outdoor access point for the garden, the terrace or the pool.
Good wifi is also the foundation for the cameras, an IP video entry system and television over the internet.
Terrestrial aerials on detached homes
On a detached house every owner has their own aerial and their own problems. The usual find in Castellvell is an installation dating from when the house was built: an amplifier past its best, degraded cable, or an aerial nobody has looked at since 2020, when the second digital dividend changed the frequencies. Higher up, closer to the hills, getting the aim right matters more still.
We inspect, measure and repair your TV aerial, and add sockets wherever you need them. If you want to see who is at the gate from your phone, we also fit video entry systems.
What the quote depends on
We do not give fixed prices over the phone because every house is different, but we will tell you what it hangs on:
- How many points need covering: watching one entrance is not the same as the full perimeter of a large plot.
- The type of cabling: with ducting free the installation is quicker; opening up routes across the facade or the garden takes more work.
- Distances: a shed or a pool thirty metres from the house calls for a different answer than a terrace beside the living room.
- What is already there: we often make use of part of your existing kit, such as the recorder, the router or the aerial.
With all of that on the table we hand over the quote in writing and with no obligation. You decide whether we go ahead, in your own time and knowing what each line covers.
The steps in every installation
- A conversation first, to find out what you need and what you already have.
- A visit to the house, measuring both television signal and wifi coverage.
- A free quote, explained line by line.
- A tidy installation, the app set up on your phone and a final test of the whole system.
Coming out to Castellvell del Camp
From Salou we take the C-14 to Reus and are in Castellvell about twenty minutes later. We cover the village itself, the estates and the houses higher up the municipality. Being so close, we also work in Reus, Les Borges del Camp and La Selva del Camp.