What we do and who it is for
CCTV design and installation for homes, landlords and small businesses — typically from £499 depending on site and equipment. Serving Maidstone and surrounding ME14 areas including nearby villages and commercial districts. All work is guaranteed with a 12-month workmanship warranty and carried out by CCUK-certified installers (or equivalent industry certification), compliant with relevant data-protection and electrical safety standards.
Typical jobs
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What it costs
We provide a fixed written price for CCTV equipment, installation, testing, configuration and VAT after a free survey; installation quotes are job-specific because equipment and access needs vary. We’ll confirm the installation timeframe with your quotation.
| Job | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| CCTV survey | Free | Security assessment and system specification |
| CCTV installation | Quoted per job after a free survey | Parts, labour, testing, configuration, certificate and VAT |
| Fault finding | £80/hr | Diagnostic work; most faults traced in 1–2 hours |
Not included: plaster and decoration repairs, asbestos removal, DNO supply-upgrade charges, scaffold or specialist access equipment.
How the work is planned
We start with a free site survey to identify vulnerable approaches, required camera coverage, cable routes, recording location and network requirements. We assess entry points, boundaries, lighting conditions, blind spots and likely intrusion paths, then specify camera positions and lens angles that capture usable identification footage without unnecessary overlap.
We confirm whether existing containment, loft access and power supplies are suitable, particularly in older Maidstone properties where cable routes may need careful selection. We’ll agree recorder location, monitor access, remote viewing needs and retention capacity before fixing the design.
Project timelines are based on system size, access constraints and any preparatory electrical work. Resource allocation is scheduled so installers, equipment and access arrangements are ready for the agreed installation date, reducing disruption and avoiding unfinished cable runs.
Compliance and documentation
CCTV installation will be documented, including system layout, camera fields of view, recorder location, cable routes, power supplies and remote‑access settings. We will supply records identifying equipment, circuit protection, network connections and handover controls so you can manage access and help maintain evidential integrity.
If fixed wiring is altered, we will keep any relevant electrical certificates and can advise on storing those certificates alongside system manuals, passwords and warranty information. It is a common misconception that there is a single statutory interval for EICRs; in fact there is no fixed legal interval for commercial premises—dutyholders must instead maintain electrical systems to prevent danger. IET Guidance Note 3 recommends typical inspection frequencies (for example, five years for offices, three years for certain industrial premises and more frequent checks in higher‑risk environments), but those are advisory guidance, not statutory obligations. We can support inspection records, maintenance schedules and compliance audits, including checks of camera operation, recording retention, power supplies and secure remote access.
Minimal disruption and out-of-hours working
To minimise disruption, we plan camera positions, cable routes, recorder location and network access in advance, then protect finishes and keep work areas controlled throughout installation. We confirm safe ladder placement, driveway access and any areas requiring temporary exclusion before starting. Cable runs are concealed where practical, with penetrations kept to the minimum needed for secure, reliable connections.
For occupied premises, we can sequence work around your routine and prioritise external equipment first. Our quiet installation approach uses low-noise methods where possible, while noise mitigation includes scheduled drilling, dust control and advance notice of unavoidable disturbance. Where daytime access is unsuitable, out of hours work may be arranged, subject to security requirements, safe access and agreed timings. We test every camera, recording channel, remote viewing connection and notification setting before leaving the site.
Premises and sites around Maidstone
Across Maidstone we design CCTV systems tailored to specific areas such as the town centre around Week Street and Earl Street, the riverside stretches at Allington and Aylesford, suburban neighbourhoods like Boxley and Bearsted, and the older housing terraces in Park Wood and Coxheath. For terraced Victorian and early-20th-century homes in town-centre streets we propose discreet domestic systems, for buy-to-let flats in the 1960s-1970s blocks around Barker Road we plan communal coverage for communal doors and stairwells, for modern apartments on the St Peter’s Street regeneration sites we match camera placement to shared entrances and cycle stores, and for retail units on Week Street and High Street we focus on premises frontage, tills and delivery points to suit the layout of those shopfronts.
In industrial locations around the Aylesford and Allington industrial estates and the distribution yards by Junction 7 of the M20 we assess long-range sightlines for loading bays and yard manoeuvring, and specify infrared-capable cameras or supplementary flood lighting where large warehouse elevations and night-time vehicle movements require it. For the managed blocks and maisonettes in the Willington Street and Mote Road areas we design systems to cover communal entrances, bin stores and resident parking bays while taking into account private gardens common to the 1950s-1960s semi-detached houses nearby.
We survey each site in Maidstone neighbourhoods to check lighting on streets such as Tonbridge Road and Loose Road, map cable routes in conservation-area streets like St Peter’s and the riverside at Allington where corrosion from the Medway is a factor, and select recorder locations suited to the building type — for example housing a recorder within a landlord-managed utility room in the 1970s block on Barker Road or within a secure office on Knightrider Street. When planning coverage for premises on the High Street and Fremlin Walk we prioritise entrances, tills and delivery points specific to those retail layouts, ensuring we do not create blind spots for the way customers circulate in those spaces.
Where we work on riverside sites at the Medway frontage in Allington and the quayside near the Viaduct we take moisture exposure and salt-related corrosion into account and choose secure mounting positions on masonry or steelwork appropriate to those locations. In suburban roads in Bearsted and Boxley with predominantly post‑war semi-detached housing we position cameras to aid clear identification of visitors at driveways and front doors rather than providing only general observation of the street.