Smart Home Prewire for Builders | Columbus & Raleigh

The reality on most lots

Low voltage gets pulled on your lots. It doesn't get designed.

Low voltage on a lot gets handled one of two ways before we show up. It rides along with the line-voltage scope, pulled as rough wire with no design on the plans and nothing explained to your buyer. Or it arrives attached to a monitoring contract, with the theater and the TV work promised on top. Either way the drawing stays silent and the questions land on your super. We design the wiring on your plans and sit with your buyer so the selections are theirs. One crew pulls every run to a labeled head-end. When the drywaller has a question, the answer comes from us.

How the prewire runs

Smart home prewire, from marked-up plans to documented handoff.

Mark up the plans

It starts on your plans, not on your lot. Send the set and we mark it up: every drop, every conduit run, the head-end location, drawn into a wiring diagram before a board goes up.

Sit with the buyer

On presale homes we sit with your buyer during rough-in, so selections happen once instead of arriving as change orders.

Walk, pull, label

We walk the frame with you ahead of the pull, then run and label everything to the head-end.

Trim

A second walk before trim-out, so keypads, panels, and drops land exactly where the plan says, before drywall goes up behind them.

Equipment and handoff

The rack gets built, the gear gets loaded and programmed, and we train the homeowner on the finished system. Your super holds the diagram, the homeowner holds a trained system, and nothing behind the drywall is a guess.

The program

Wire every lot once. Finish it to the buyer.

Your spec sheet stays simple. The prewire goes in every lot as the smart-ready foundation, one wiring diagram underneath every home. What a buyer builds on top of it is a conversation we have with them, not a menu your sales office has to learn.

Finished per home

The buyer conversation

Some want it move-in smart. The ones building their forever house want light, sound, security, and control finished throughout. We scope that per home and handle the upgrade conversation directly, so your framing schedule never changes no matter how far a buyer takes it.

Pricing your estimator can put in the budget

Allowance & rebate

The prewire carries a per-square-foot allowance by level, set from your plans, so the low voltage lands in the budget at contract instead of surfacing in the change-order pile at rough-in. Two rates for the same work, one for spec and one for presale, so the lot pencils either way you sell it. Instead of burying a margin in the hardware, the trade program pays a rebate back to you on prewire and electronics. The category shows up on your P&L instead of ours.

Proof

Ask the buyers our builders work for.

Your name is on the house after we leave. Here's how handovers go.

Responsive, during and after

Alicia Silla, on her new construction: "Ryan and his team were highly responsive throughout the project, and even after completion." When your buyer calls in year three, the crew that wired the house picks up.

The schedule is the real one

The dates we quote your super come out of CoreOS, the operating software we built to run our own design, proposals, and project scheduling. The schedule we give you is the one the crew is working from.

2 markets

Columbus, OH & Raleigh, NC

CoreOS

The software behind every schedule we quote

Common questions

Builder FAQ

When should the low-voltage contractor be on site for new construction?

At the plan stage, before the drawings are final. A run designed on paper goes in straight and stays serviceable; a run improvised at rough-in gets boxed out by ductwork. The pull itself happens during framing, after electrical rough-in and before insulation and drywall, and we coordinate the sequence with your super directly. We'd rather spend an hour on your plans than a day on your lot solving problems the drawing would have caught.

What does a smart home prewire include?

Whatever the plan calls for, documented. The typical scope runs Cat6 data drops room by room, speaker rough-in to a named configuration, hardwired camera and doorbell drops, security contacts and panel power, access point drops, and conduit to the demarc, attic, and landscape. Every run is a home run to a labeled head-end, it's low-voltage only, and we stay out of your electrician's line-voltage scope. Every job ships with its wiring diagram.

How long does prewire take on a custom home?

Count it in days, and it's never your critical path. The design work happens off-site before framing, so the on-site pull is a focused window of a few days depending on the size of the house, sequenced with your super. Trim-out and rack work come after drywall in a second short window, and both go into your build schedule up front. If your schedule moves, one call moves ours, because there's one low-voltage sub to move.

How does a low voltage allowance work for builders?

It's priced per square foot by level, set from your plans, so it drops into the budget at contract and stays fixed before framing. Spec homes carry a builder rate; presale buyers who add at the design meeting buy on our paper, in a direct conversation between us and them, so your contract stays untouched. The trade program pays a rebate back to you on the category instead of a margin you have to hunt for.

Smart home prewire for new construction, from one low voltage contractor.