Security Camera Installation
Priced per camera. Most of the value here is placement — a camera pointed at the wrong thing is a camera you stop checking. I'll walk the property with you before anything gets mounted.
No deposit. Pay when it's done. Or call John on (619) 928-6500.
What's included
- Placement walked with you before mounting — angle, coverage, and glare
- Mounted to siding, stucco, eave, or soffit with the right fastener
- Plugged into an existing exterior outlet, or set up as battery/solar
- Connected to WiFi and paired to your phone
- Live view and night view both checked on site
- Motion zones and sensitivity tuned so alerts mean something
What I'll need from you
- The cameras and their mounts
- Your WiFi password and the app account made
- An exterior outlet within reach for wired models
- How long it takes
- About an hour per camera.
John
Working out where the stud is. It's never where you'd like it.
Where
Security Camera across San Diego County
Same flat price everywhere I go. The city pages cover what's actually different about the housing stock — because a 1920s plaster wall and a 2015 tract wall are not the same job.
Is $149 for all my cameras or each one?
Each one. Two cameras is $298 — or $349 for the Perimeter Watch bundle, which adds a video doorbell. Multiple cameras in one visit is always cheaper per camera than having me out twice.
Can you run power to a spot with no outlet?
No. Adding a new exterior outlet or circuit needs a permit and a licensed electrician, and that's outside what I do. Battery and solar models solve this well, and I'll happily mount those anywhere.
Will the camera reach my WiFi out there?
That's the question worth asking before you buy. I check signal at the mounting spot as part of the job. If it's marginal, a mesh point usually fixes it — that's $149 and I can do both in one visit.
Security & Cameras
Often booked at the same visit
Adding a second job to the same trip is the cheapest way to buy my time — the drive only gets paid for once.
Security camera installation in San Diego
Most security camera installation calls in San Diego come after something happened — a package taken off a porch in North Park, a car gone through overnight in Clairemont. The instinct is to put a camera on the front of the house pointing at the street. That is usually the least useful angle available: it captures a public sidewalk at a distance and produces a wide, unidentifiable figure. Cameras aimed across an approach rather than down one, at head height rather than eave height, are what actually gives you a face.
Salt air is the local constraint. Anything within a couple of miles of the water — Ocean Beach, Point Loma, Pacific Beach, Cardiff — corrodes mounting hardware and cable ends far faster than the same install inland in Poway or Santee. I use stainless fixings near the coast and dress the cable so water runs away from the connector rather than into it, which is the difference between a camera that lasts five years and one that fogs in eighteen months.
Send a photo of the spot. I'll confirm $149.
If the photo shows something that changes the price, you'll know before I drive out — not after.
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