Wi-Fi installation
Our own teams, our own cabling, and a validation survey at the end. The installation is where most Wi-Fi projects lose the design they paid for — so we don't hand it to anybody else.
Where Wi-Fi projects actually go wrong
Ask anyone who has commissioned a Wi-Fi installation what went wrong and you will rarely hear "the design was bad". You will hear that the access points ended up somewhere else, that the cabling was late, that nobody could agree whose job the containment was, that the electrician and the network installer were on site in the wrong order, or that it all worked on the day and degraded within a month.
These are not design failures. They are hand-off failures, and they happen because the industry is structured to create them: the firm that surveys and designs is very often not the firm that installs, and neither of them owns the physical infrastructure the design depends on.
We removed the hand-off. The people who surveyed the building and drew the design are in the same business as the people who fix the containment, pull the cable, mount the access points, commission the radios and come back to validate the result. One programme, one set of paperwork, one number to ring.
What the installation includes
Containment and cable routes
Tray, trunking, basket and conduit installed to the routes specified in the design — including at height, through plant spaces and across warehouse structures. This is the work that most often gets left unallocated between trades, and it is in scope from the start.
Structured cabling
Cat6A and fibre installed, terminated, tested and certified. Cabinets, patching and labelling done properly, because an unlabelled cabinet costs somebody a day the first time anything goes wrong. More on structured cabling.
Mounting and access
Access points mounted at the designed positions, heights and orientations. High-bay warehouses, atria and external positions need access equipment and working-at-height method statements — planned in advance rather than discovered on the day.
Commissioning
Controllers, SSIDs, VLANs, channel plan, transmit power, roaming thresholds, band steering, guest policy and captive portal — configured to the design's commissioning sheet, not left on defaults. Default configuration is one of the most common causes of poor performance on otherwise good hardware.
Validation
We survey it again after commissioning and compare the result against the design, then hand you the evidence. That is what makes the coverage guarantee meaningful rather than decorative. More on validation surveys.
Handover
As-built drawings, cable test results, configuration documentation, labelling schedule and the validation report. Everything a future engineer — ours or yours — needs to work on the network without starting from scratch.
Working in live buildings
Almost every installation we do is in an occupied building. Warehouses that can't stop picking, schools in term time, hotels with guests in, care homes where residents live, offices where people are working. That constrains when and how the work happens, and it is normal rather than exceptional.
- Out-of-hours and phased working where the operation requires it — nights, weekends, shutdown periods, or floor by floor.
- RAMS as standard, with site-specific risk assessments and method statements issued before work starts.
- Accredited and insured. CHAS, Constructionline Gold, SafeContractor and TrustMark through The Specialist Electrical Group, with the site paperwork, insurance and induction records a main contractor or facilities team will ask for.
- Group capacity. Where a programme needs more hands on site to hit a date, we can draw on a broader range of engineers and installers rather than looking for a subcontractor at short notice.
- Clean handover. Containment finished properly, cabinets tidy and labelled, and the site left as we found it.
Common questions
Will you install a design somebody else produced?
Yes. We'll review it first and tell you honestly if we think it won't achieve what it claims — and if that's the case, we'd rather say so before installing it than validate a disappointment afterwards. Where the design is sound, we'll build it as specified.
Do you do the electrical work as well?
Where a project needs power to access point positions, containment at high level or work in plant areas, that is part of the installation and it is in scope. It's delivered as part of the Wi-Fi programme rather than as a separate trade you have to coordinate.
How long does an installation take?
It depends on the cabling more than the access points — pulling and terminating cable through a live building is the long pole. A single-floor office is usually days; a large distribution centre or a multi-building estate is weeks and normally phased. You'll get a programme before you commit.
Can you work around our operation?
Yes, and we'd expect to. Nights, weekends, shutdown periods and area-by-area phasing are all routine. Tell us the constraints at scoping stage — they shape the programme and the price, and they're much cheaper to design around than to discover.
What do we get at handover?
As-built drawings, cable test certificates, configuration documentation, a labelling schedule and the validation survey report. Enough for anybody to pick the network up later, including a supplier who isn't us.
Do you offer support afterwards?
Yes — monitoring, remote and on-site support, firmware and licence management and an annual RF health check. More on managed Wi-Fi. It's optional; the network is yours either way.
Let's find out what your Wi-Fi is actually doing.
Book a survey and you get measured data, a design you can build to, and a number you can budget against — not an opinion.