We design and install home automation, lighting control, motorised shades and whole home audio across Southern New Hampshire, and we are at our most useful before the drywall goes on.
There is a window during a build, after the framing and before the walls close, when putting in a cable costs almost nothing. After that window closes, the same cable costs a great deal or becomes impossible. Nearly every regret we hear from homeowners traces back to that moment passing without anyone thinking about it.
A prewire does not commit you to a particular system or a particular budget. It commits you to having the option. We run the structured cabling, set the rack location, pull to the speaker and display positions, get keypad and shade boxes in the right places, and leave the house ready for whatever you decide to do in year one or year five.
We work directly with builders and architects on this, and we would rather be a half day on site during framing than a difficult conversation during punch list.
Lighting control and motorised shades do more for how a house feels day to day than any other category, which is why we usually start there. Beyond that it is whole home audio, theatre and media rooms, climate, cameras and entry, and a single interface that pulls them together rather than eleven apps.
We work with Control4, Lutron, Josh.ai and Nice, and we pick between them on the merits of the house rather than habit. A large property with a lot of lighting zones and a client who wants voice control is a different specification from a tight new build where the priority is shades and good sound.
Whatever goes in, the network underneath it has to be right. More smart home failures are network failures than anything else, and we treat the wireless and the wiring as part of the system rather than something the cable company provides.
Outbuildings are the norm rather than the exception here, and barns, detached garages, workshops and guest houses all want to be on the same system as the main house. That is a fibre or a bridge decision and it is far cheaper made during construction.
Winter gives automation real work to do. Driveway and roof heat, generator status, well and septic alarms, and a freeze alert that reaches you while you are elsewhere are the features clients end up valuing most, well ahead of anything that dims a light from a phone.
South facing glass is the other one. A house with a wall of windows facing the winter sun gains a lot of heat at midday and loses it after dark, and shades on a schedule do more for comfort and for the heating bill than most people expect.
A property that is unoccupied for stretches needs to tell you when something is wrong rather than waiting for you to arrive and find it. Temperature and water sensors tied into the system, with alerts that actually reach a phone, have saved clients here more than the system cost. We set that up as standard on seasonal properties.
We start with a conversation about how you live in the house, not a product list. Then a design and a written proposal with the equipment and the labour separated. Then installation, programming, and a handover session where we sit with you until the system makes sense.
After that we are reachable. Systems need adjustment as a household settles into them, and a scene that was right in June is often wrong in December.
If your town is not listed, ask. LavIT Solutions works nationwide, with teams based in Loudon, New Hampshire and Dallas, Texas. The list above is simply where this crew is most often, and managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud work is delivered anywhere in the country.
As soon as you have a floor plan, and certainly before the electrician roughs in. The design decisions that are expensive to reverse all happen in that period, and an hour of planning then is worth a great deal later.
Yes. Lighting control and shades both have retrofit paths that do not require opening walls, and wireless has become genuinely reliable for those. Audio and video are harder in a finished house but rarely impossible, and we will be straight with you about what a given room will cost to do properly.
Not necessarily. If existing lighting, speakers or cameras are sound and use open standards, extending is usually cheaper than replacing. We will tell you when a piece of equipment is genuinely the limiting factor rather than simply older.
A properly designed system keeps running. Lighting, shades, audio and climate should all work locally with no connection at all. What you lose is remote access and anything that depends on a cloud service, which is one reason we favour systems that keep their intelligence in the house.