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Home CCTV
Installation.
Want eyes on your property when you're not there? We install home CCTV systems across Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and the wider North West. HD or 4K cameras, mobile app live view, doorbell cameras and weather-proof night vision. Family-run, plain-English, and tidy on the wall. Book a free home survey and we'll walk you through the right setup for your home in clear, everyday language.
If you're after CCTV for a business or premises rather than a home, that's a different setup. See business CCTV installation.
Home CCTV systems
by professionals.
Most homeowners can buy a four-camera kit off Amazon for a few hundred pounds. The trouble starts later. When a cable drops behind the soffit, the WiFi can't reach the back garden, or the footage you actually need has been overwritten because the storage filled up months ago.
Our domestic CCTV installs are designed and fitted by engineers who do this every day. We've been trading since 2019, with over 50 years of combined experience across the team. We size the system to your property, run cabling tidily (you won't see it), set up the network properly, and show you how to use the app before we leave.
You get a system that works in year one and still works in year five. That's the bit DIY kits tend to skip. For broader background, see our guide to professional CCTV installation.
HD & 4K home CCTV cameras.
Most home systems use a mix of camera resolutions. Doors and entry points typically need higher detail; wider drives and gardens are fine on standard HD. Choosing the best home CCTV setup means matching cameras to your property, not buying the most expensive kit you can find. We'll recommend the mix on your free survey.
HD Cameras
1080p HD cameras are the workhorse of home CCTV, covering front doors, side gates and garden corners with enough detail to identify a person at close range. Lower storage demands mean more days of recording. For most homes, an HD-led system with a 4K camera over the main entry is the sensible balance.4K Cameras
4K cameras pull in roughly four times the pixel detail of 1080p. The practical benefit is identification at distance, reading a number plate at the end of the drive, or picking out a face from the far end of the garden. Useful where there's a long approach to the house.Wireless Cameras
Wireless cameras are ideal where cabling is impractical: outbuildings, sheds, holiday homes. They run on battery or WiFi. For a main home system, wired delivers continuous 24/7 recording with no batteries to manage and rock-solid performance in any weather. We'll recommend the right option for each spot.Got a project in mind? Let's scope it together.
Live view, alerts, and cloud backup.
Modern home CCTV systems do far more than record. Most of the day-to-day value sits in the smart features.
Mobile App Live View
Open the app, tap a camera, and you're looking at your home in real time. Useful for checking the dog, seeing the kids back from school, or just confirming the side gate's shut while you're sat in a hotel in Wales. Works over your home WiFi or any 4G/5G connection.Push Notifications
The app pushes alerts when something triggers a camera. Modern systems detect the difference between a person and a passing branch, so you don't get woken at 2am because the wind moved a hedge. We set sensitivity zones during install, alerts for the front gate, not the cat on the lawn.Cloud Storage
Store footage locally on a hard recorder (NVR) inside the house, push it to the cloud, or both. Local keeps everything on your network. Quick to access, no monthly fee. Cloud adds an off-site backup, useful if a thief takes the recorder. We'll talk through both during the survey.Doorbell & front-door cameras
The front door is where most parcels turn up, most callers stand, and most activity around the home happens. Doorbell cameras combine a camera, a doorbell and two-way audio in a single unit, so you can answer the door from your phone whether you're upstairs or two miles away.We tie doorbell cameras into the main system rather than leaving them as a separate app. One feed, one set of recordings, one place to look. Most modern doorbells can be wired into your existing chime power supply, so you don't need to charge them. Where wiring isn't easy, battery models are an option. We'll check on the survey.
Night vision & all-weather cameras
Most break-ins happen at night, so night vision matters. The cameras we install have proper infrared (IR) night vision, black-and-white in low light, with a usable range of 20 to 30m on most home models. Newer cameras add full-colour night vision using a low-light sensor and a discreet white light, which is genuinely useful when you want to identify clothing or faces.For British weather, we install cameras rated IP66 or IP67. Sealed against rain, dust and the occasional dropped football. We've fitted plenty of cameras during the wettest weeks of the year; they keep going.
Privacy & neighbour considerations.
This is the bit most CCTV installers skim. We don't, because doing it badly causes problems for years.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is clear: home CCTV cameras should capture your own property and reasonable approaches to it. They shouldn't point unnecessarily into a neighbour's home, garden or driveway. Our installers angle every camera so the field of view stays on your land first, with the smallest possible spill onto pavements and shared spaces.
If a camera does need to capture a shared driveway or a section that touches a neighbour's land, we'll suggest a quick conversation with the neighbour beforehand. It's almost always fine, most people would rather know than discover a camera by accident. And it heads off any complaint later.
If you'd rather not record audio, we'll set the cameras up that way. Audio recording brings extra obligations and most home setups don't need it.
Want a fixed-price quote? We'll come and survey first.
Home CCTV pricing.
A four-camera 1080p HD system with an NVR and the mobile app sits at the lower end of the price scale. A larger 4K system with eight cameras, smart person-detection and cloud backup sits at the upper end. We don't believe in "from" pricing that doesn't reflect your actual house, every quote we issue is property-specific, after a proper survey.
Once we've walked the job, you'll get a written, itemised quote. Clear pricing, every line accounted for.Camera countCable run complexityStorage requirementsCamera tier
Our home CCTV installation process.
Free home survey
A real engineer comes out, walks the property and identifies camera positions. Around 45 minutes, free of charge.Written quote
An itemised quote covering kit, install, network setup and ongoing support, nothing payable unless you proceed.Install day
Most home CCTV systems go in over a single day. Cabling is run discreetly, cameras mounted and aligned, recorder set up and the network configured.Handover
We walk you through the app, set up sensitivity zones and leave written instructions. If anything isn't right, you can reach the same engineers who did the job.Common questions.
Book a free home CCTV survey.
Get a real engineer out for a walk-around. No charge, no commitment, no high-pressure sales. We'll measure up, talk you through camera options, and email you a written quote within a couple of working days.
Looking for local cover? You'll also find us as a Liverpool CCTV installer, Manchester CCTV installer and Leeds CCTV installer, see those pages for area-specific detail.
Same working day response · Free site survey · Fixed-price quote