Answers from the shop floor.
Plain answers for Las Vegas homes and buildings: what to ask, what decides it and what it takes, from home automation and theaters to shading, security, networks and licensed electrical work.
Home automation in Las Vegas: what to automate first
Start with lighting, shades and climate on one system, build the network first, and add the rest when it earns its place.
Read →How home theater installation works, from discovery to handover
The stages of a home theater, from discovery to calibration, and what each one decides before the walls close.
Read →Crestron, Lutron, Control4 or Savant: which fits your home?
How the four platforms differ, what decides the right one for your house, and why we choose on requirements, not rebates.
Read →Motorized shades for the Las Vegas sun
Heat, glare and fading on west glass, fabric openness, hardwired or battery, and shades that move with the lights.
Read →Landscape lighting and outdoor audio for a desert home
Light the few things worth seeing and leave the rest dark: warm, shielded fixtures on a sunset schedule, speakers in the planting.
Read →TV installation in Las Vegas, done properly
Flush, concealed or on a lift, the equipment out of sight, the right height, real sound, and outdoor screens rated for the sun.
Read →How to plan security camera installation for a Las Vegas home
Where cameras go on a house, what the desert does to them, wired or wireless, and how they work with the gate and the lights.
Read →Access control and CCTV for Las Vegas businesses
Who gets in, where and when, and what happened: doors and cameras on one network, one screen and one audit trail.
Read →Conference room AV that starts every meeting on time
One-tap join on Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, every seat heard, and every room built to one standard.
Read →Do you need a licensed electrical contractor for smart home work?
Why anything that touches line voltage needs a licensed contractor, what goes wrong with two trades, and how to check a Nevada license.
Read →The one-button test
Device counts tell you what was purchased. Behavior tells you what was designed. The one question that separates a building that behaves as one from an expensive collection of remote controls.
Read →Why discovery is paid
A free quote is a guess wearing a suit. What happens in a paid discovery session, what the document you keep actually contains, and why it protects you whether or not you build with us.
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