Security Cameras Burnside

Wired systems usually run network cable from each camera back to a recorder, which can also power the cameras over the same cable. That makes them steady and less prone to dropouts than wifi, but the cable route needs planning through ceilings, walls and eaves. Wifi cameras are quicker to fit but rely on a strong signal and a power supply at each spot. We explain the trade-offs for your Burnside property.

Burnside Cameras for Group Housing Homes and Busy Memorial Avenue

After 1945 much of Burnside was subdivided, with many homes built under the Group Housing Scheme, and the suburb grew as fast as anywhere in the country through the 1950s and 1960s. These houses share a pattern: compact footprints, hip or gable roofs, and ceilings with good crawl space. That makes a four-camera wired layout simple, with cables dropped to each corner and back to a recorder, and very little showing on the outside.

The oldest post-war homes can still have rubber-insulated cable, and original boards often have rewireable fuses. A PoE system avoids the need for power at each camera, so electrical work is usually limited to a single outlet for the recorder, added to a circuit that has been checked first. Where an owner wants a mains floodlight camera on the driveway in place of the old security light, that is certified fixed wiring.

Burnside High School, with a roll of more than 2,700, and Memorial Avenue, the route to the airport, bring heavy traffic past many homes. Front cameras are aimed down the drive and set to ignore the road. Homes near Jellie Park and Burnside Park look onto busy public space at the back, so masking keeps those parts of the view out of your recordings. Where a section has a detached garage, a cable run underground from the house lets a camera cover it too.

Local tip: In Burnside, keep the driveway camera's detection zone short of the footpath during school terms, when foot traffic past the house is heavy.

Security Cameras in Burnside: Local Conditions

West Christchurch covers family homes in Burnside, Avonhead and Ilam, character houses in Fendalton, and commercial and industrial sites around Hornby. Larger sites usually suit a wired system with a central recorder.

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Homes in Burnside

Group Housing homes and 1950s and 1960s houses were often wired in early plastic-sheathed cable, though the oldest post-war homes can still have rubber-insulated cable. Original boards often have rewireable fuses, limited space and partial or no RCD protection. Current wiring rules require RCD protection on new and altered circuits, so a renovation is a good time to upgrade.

Christchurch's water is drawn from aquifers fed from the foothills of the Southern Alps through more than 50 pumping stations, and much of the supply has been temporarily chlorinated since 2018 while well-heads are upgraded.

Our electricians are in and around Burnside Park and Jellie Park and the rest of Burnside most weeks. For everything else, see electricians in Burnside.

How We Handle Security Cameras in Burnside

The recorder is set up in a secure spot, recording settings are agreed with you, and phone viewing is configured and tested in Burnside before we leave.

Pricing: a free quote and a fixed price agreed before we start. You get a written, itemised quote, and small jobs can be quoted from photos.

Security Cameras Jobs We Do in Burnside

Gate and driveway cameras on a lifestyle block
Replacing an old analogue system
Phone viewing setup
Warehouse yard coverage
Wired home CCTV with a recorder