Cameras, Phone Systems & Cabling in Galveston, TX

Galveston is a barrier island and everything about an install here follows from that. Salt-laden air corrodes outdoor equipment far faster than it does on the mainland, and it almost always takes the fittings, fixings and connections before it takes the camera itself. Gear chosen for a Pearland back yard will not last the same number of years on a Galveston seafront, so the honest approach is to specify for the environment at the start and accept it costs a little more than the cheap option that has to be redone.

Storm exposure is the second constraint, and it is a placement question rather than an equipment one. Recorders, racks and head-end equipment go high and inland-facing wherever the building allows it. The footage is worth more than the camera, and it is the recorder that gets lost first when water comes in.

Then there are the buildings. A lot of what we work on downtown and around the Strand is genuinely old — brick, plaster, no attic, no crawl space and no tolerance for cutting things about. Cable routes there are surface conduit, existing chases and patience, and it is a different job from wiring a new-build. Add to that the businesses that live on a season — Seawall restaurants and shops, rental properties, the visitor trade — and the requirement is usually that the system works without anyone on site thinking about it.