Home Automation & AV Installation in Lakewood, CO

Working around Lakewood's basement layouts

Green Mountain and Applewood basements are usually unfinished or partially finished with plenty of open joist bays, so our theater and whole-home audio wiring in those homes moves fast — we can run new CAT6 and speaker cable across an entire footprint in a single day before drywall goes back up. Where a basement is already finished, we work from the mechanical room outward, using the furnace and water heater location as our reference point for the shortest path to a media room or rack location.

Belmar-area townhomes present the opposite problem: finished space from top to bottom with shared walls on at least one side, so we lean on surface raceway and shallow-depth in-wall speaker boxes rated for 2x4 construction rather than assuming a deep 2x6 cavity.

Sun and grade on Lakewood's western edge

Homes backing to Bear Creek and the foothills-facing streets get strong afternoon sun exposure, which we account for when placing outdoor TVs — a west-facing patio TV needs a higher-nit, anti-glare display and a shaded or recessed mount, not just a weatherproof one. Grade changes on these lots also mean outdoor speaker wire runs sometimes need to follow a retaining wall or terraced yard rather than a straight line, which we scope on the initial site walk.