Six thousand square feet, masonry walls, a detached shop and forty connected devices is a commercial problem wearing a residential label. CDM builds custom and luxury home networks that way — across West Georgia and metro Atlanta.
Where we come in
We would rather meet you at framing than at frustration — but most of this work is fixable later, and it is worth knowing what it costs to wait.
Every drop is trivial while the studs are open and nearly impossible once they are not. This is the one stage where a decision is still free.
Equipment installed, configured and tested before anyone is living there — so the network is not the thing still being sorted out while the furniture arrives.
Most calls come from a finished home with a mesh system that cannot cover it. Fixing that does not require tearing the house apart — it requires knowing where to open it.
What we build
A mesh kit is designed for a two-bedroom apartment. It is not failing because it is broken — it is failing because it was never built for a house this size.
Walk the propertyCoverage designed against the actual footprint and the actual construction. Brick, stone, plaster, spray foam and radiant barrier all eat signal — which is exactly why the mesh kit that worked in the last house does not work in this one.
The patio, the pool, the drive, the gate, the barn, the shop, the guest house. The places a homeowner most notices a dead network are almost never inside the main structure.
Cat6 and fiber to the rooms, access points, TVs, cameras and equipment that need it — terminated, tested and labeled at both ends, with service loops left for the next change.
Guests, streaming devices, thermostats, doorbells and everything else with a chip in it kept on their own networks — away from the laptops, the cameras and the family photos.
UniFi Protect cameras placed for coverage and for how the house looks, recorded on site with no monthly subscription. UniFi Access for keypad, keycard and mobile entry at doors and gates.
A rack that fits the closet it lives in, Synology NAS for local storage and backup, and optional remote monitoring so the house gets looked after by the people who built it.
Before anyone pulls wire
Drop counts, riser paths, access point placement and rack layout get settled on paper — where changing them costs nothing.
Every location decided with the builder before drywall, and every run home-running back to one point.
Access point placement modeled against the real footprint — including the patio, the pool and the detached shop.
How a run gets from the rack to the jack — sleeved, supported, and left with room for the next pull.
What you keep
Plenty of installers keep the admin logins so you have to call them. We hand everything over in writing and would rather you call us because you want to.
Every port and run marked at both ends. If we never come back, the next person can still read it.
What is plugged into what, where it runs, and what stops working if a given piece fails.
Your gear, your logins, your admin access — handed over in writing, not kept by the installer.
Thirty minutes with whoever actually runs the house, covering the five things worth knowing and nothing else.
The network, cabling and pre-wire, WiFi, cameras, door access, racks and local storage — plus the monitoring and support that keeps the property running afterward.
Home theater calibration, whole-house audio design and general PC repair. We leave room for the specialists who do those and make sure the network carries them properly.
Common questions
Most of it comes down to three things: when to start, what the coverage will actually reach, and who owns the system afterward.
At the plan stage if the plans exist, and at framing at the latest. Every drop is trivial while the studs are open and awkward once they are not, so the window before insulation and drywall is the one that matters. Coming in early also settles the decisions that are hard to undo: where the rack lives, where the internet line enters the house, and which sleeves get left behind for whatever the house needs in five years. Adding locations to a drawing costs nothing. Adding one to a finished wall costs a weekend.
In a house of that size, usually yes. A mesh kit is built for an apartment or a modest single-story home, and it is not failing because it is defective — it is failing because it is being asked to do something it was never designed for. Each mesh node relays over the air using the same radio it is serving your devices with, so every hop is paid for in throughput, and brick, stone, plaster, spray foam and a radiant barrier take a bite out of whatever is left. Access points fed by cable do not have that problem. The real test is not whether the mesh reaches the far bedroom. It is whether that bedroom is still usable when the whole family is home.
Usually, and the version that works properly runs a cable out to the building with an access point at the far end of it. That gives the outbuilding its own coverage instead of the last thin edge of the house signal, and it means a camera or a door out there has something reliable to sit on. Whether the run is practical comes down to the distance, what is between the two structures, and whether any path already exists. Where the ground makes a cable impractical, there are wireless options between buildings, and we will tell you plainly which of the two you are getting and what it gives up.
No. UniFi Protect cameras record to a recorder on site, in your house, and the footage is yours. There is no monthly fee to keep recording and no fee to look at the cameras from your phone. That is the main reason we build them this way instead of on a consumer camera platform, where the recording lives on somebody else’s server and stops the month a payment lapses. Storage is a one-time part of the build, sized to how many cameras there are and how far back you want to be able to look.
You get the system, the documentation and the logins. The rack is labeled at both ends, you get a map of what is plugged into what and what stops working if a given piece fails, and the admin accounts are in your name and handed over in writing rather than kept by the installer. Then we spend about half an hour with whoever actually runs the house on the handful of things worth knowing — how to put a guest on the guest network, where the cameras are recording, and what to check before calling anybody. We would rather you call us because you want to than because you have to.
Where we work
Close enough to West Georgia to be there the same day, and close enough to I-20 to be in metro Atlanta before the traffic is.
No cost, no obligation
We walk the property, look at what is actually installed, and tell you plainly where the coverage dies and what it would take to fix it. You get the findings whether or not you hire us.
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