Structured Wiring and Prewire
Low voltage structured wiring for greater Phoenix homes: network, AV, speaker, camera and shade runs, pulled before drywall, labeled, tested and mapped.
Structured Wiring and Prewire for a home you live in
Retrofit the house you are in now, room by room, on a schedule that suits the family.
- A walkthrough and a written plan first
- Clean work in a finished home
- Someone to call when you need us
Structured Wiring and Prewire for a home you are building
Prewire, plans and a finish date your superintendent can plan around, on homes and on multi-family and commercial projects across the country.
- Prewire while the walls are open
- Clear plans your trades can follow
- One crew from rough in to handover
Overview
We design and install low voltage structured wiring for new builds, remodels and additions across the greater Phoenix area. That is the network, AV, speaker, camera and shade wiring every smart system in the house rides on, pulled before drywall, labeled, tested and documented.
Wireless gets all the attention, but every reliable smart home is wired underneath. Access points, TVs, cameras and audio all do better on copper, and the hour it takes to pull a wire before drywall is nothing next to opening a finished wall later.
What a Hybryd prewire includes
- Network: cat6 or cat6a to the TV locations, office desks, access point positions and camera mounts.
- Audio: speaker wire to the in-ceiling positions for every room and patio zone you might ever want music in.
- Video: wiring for the displays and the paths between the rack and the TVs.
- Security: camera drops at the entries and corners, doorbell and intercom wiring, alarm sensor runs.
- Shades: power or control wiring at the window headers, so motorized shades are an easy yes later instead of a battery compromise.
- Enclosure and rack path: a proper low voltage panel or rack location with ventilation and power, not a closet somebody thought of last.
- Conduit where it counts: a few smurf-tube runs to the key walls keep the house upgradeable for decades.
- Documentation: every run labeled and tested, and you keep the wiring map. The trades after us, and the owner after you, know exactly what is in the walls.
When to wire
- New construction: after framing and the other trades rough in, before insulation and drywall. That is the golden window. Get us the plans early and the wiring plan is ready when the frame is.
- Remodels: any wall that is already open is an opportunity. A kitchen or great room remodel is the natural moment to add speaker, TV and camera wiring.
- Existing homes: single-story Arizona attics make a lot of retrofit runs practical. We'll tell you honestly which ones are easy, which are ugly, and which are not worth doing.
Wired for how the house will be used, not just how it is bought
A good prewire plans for what comes next: the office that becomes a nursery and then an office again, the blank patio wall that becomes an outdoor TV, the pool that is not there yet. Wire is cheap during construction. Regret is not. We lay the plan out with you, or with your builder, room by room off the floor plan.
The Hybryd process
- Plan review: we take your floor plan and come back with a low voltage wiring plan with every drop marked.
- Fixed proposal, signed by an owner.
- Rough-in: wire pulled, secured and protected before drywall, worked in around your GC and the other trades.
- Verification: every run tested and labeled before the insulation covers it up.
- Trim-out: plates, speakers, access points and rack equipment installed at finish, ready for the systems that follow.
Building, or acting as your own GC? Our new construction page goes deeper on how we work with builders.
Get the wiring plan right
Call (480) 401-2224 or send us your floor plan. Hybryd Systems serves Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and the greater Phoenix area.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is prewire still worth it when everything is wireless?
Yes. The WiFi itself depends on wired access points, cameras are far more reliable on a wire, and audio and video still favor copper. Wireless is the last hop, not the backbone.
When in construction should the low voltage contractor come in?
At the plan stage, ideally. The wire itself goes in after electrical and plumbing rough-in and before insulation, but the plan should exist before the frame goes up.
What does a prewire cost?
It scales with the drop count and the size of the house, and it is dramatically cheaper than running the same wiring after the fact. We quote it off the plan as a fixed, line-item proposal.
Can you wire an existing home?
Often, yes. Attic access in a single-story house makes a lot of runs practical, and we'll tell you straight which ones are not.
Do you coordinate with my builder and electrician?
Yes, that is normal for us. We schedule around the other trades, and labeled, documented runs make everybody downstream faster, including the inspector's walk.
What is structured wiring exactly?
It is the organized low voltage cabling of a house: the network, audio, video and security runs all coming back to one panel or rack, labeled and documented, instead of cables added one at a time as somebody needed them.
Three steps, start to finish.
A visit and a plan
We walk the house with you and put a clear plan in writing.
We install it
Our own crew, a set date, and clean work you can be proud of.
We show you how
We sit down with the family until everyone is comfortable using it.
Other services
- Security, Surveillance and AccessSee your home from anywhere, day or night.
- Home Theater and Media RoomsMovie night the whole family shows up for.
- Control4 Smart Home AutomationOne app for lights, music, TV and locks.
- Home Networking and WiFiStrong WiFi in every corner of the house.
- Whole-Home Audio and VideoMusic in every room, inside and out.
- Lighting Control and Motorized ShadesThe right light at the right time of day.
- Central Vacuum SystemsQuieter cleanup, dust out of the house.
- Smart Climate and Thermostat ControlComfortable rooms on a schedule you set.

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