A complete Ring security camera and video doorbell system installed at a residential property in Truro - covering the driveway, garage, rear garden and front entrance, each camera fed from its own dedicated electrical supply with cabling chased cleanly into the masonry walls.
Home security has moved on considerably over the past decade, and Ring’s camera range sits right in the middle of that shift – giving homeowners live video, motion alerts and two-way audio from their phones, without the complexity of a traditional CCTV setup. This project in Truro involved fitting a full Ring system across a residential property, which meant installing a video doorbell at the front, a floodlight camera covering the driveway, and two spotlight cameras at the rear – one over the garage and one on the side wall of the rear bedroom looking out over the garden.
Each element needed its own electrical supply, and that’s where the work went well beyond a simple plug-in job. The Ring Video Doorbell at the front of the property was powered via a 24v transformer, taken from a local light switch circuit. The transformer itself was housed in a 47mm PVC pattress to keep everything contained and tidy, with all cabling routed through 25mm PVC trunking. A doorbell chime was fitted inside the office area of the property so there’s an audible notification inside the building as well as through the app.
For the driveway, a Ring Floodlight Camera Pro was installed – this is the 2K model, so the footage quality is solid. Power for this came from an existing bedroom socket outlet, fused down to the correct rating for the camera. An unswitched fused outlet was recessed into the masonry wall adjacent to the existing double socket, keeping the install flush and unobtrusive.
The over-garage spotlight camera was handled differently – there was already a power outlet in that area, so an unswitched fused outlet was added to properly supply the Ring Spotlight Cam from that existing circuit. Same approach for the rear garden camera on the side of the bedroom wall, where a 1mm supply cable was routed to a fused outlet to feed the spotlight camera.
A big part of this job was how the cables were run. Rather than surface-mounting trunking across finished walls, cables were chased into the masonry using dustless extraction tools – a method that keeps the mess to an absolute minimum and means the finished result looks like the cables were never there. Once each cable was laid into its channel and secured, the chase was filled back with bonding coat plaster. Fine filling, sanding and painting is carried out by others, but the electrical groundwork left everything in a clean state ready for that next stage.
Getting Ring cameras connected and working properly does depend on having a strong and stable Wi-Fi signal at each location. That was factored into the planning from the outset – the job was scoped on the basis that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure could support the system. Ring subscriptions for cloud recording are handled separately by the customer too, so the install itself is purely the electrical and physical side of things.
This kind of project is becoming increasingly common. A lot of homeowners want the reassurance of decent camera coverage but don’t want a big rack-mounted DVR system with thick cables running everywhere. Ring’s wired range gives you reliable, always-on cameras that don’t depend on batteries, and when the electrical supply is done properly – fused correctly, recessed neatly, chased into the wall where it needs to be – the end result is clean, permanent and doesn’t look like an afterthought.
Truro properties vary a lot in terms of wall construction and how accessible circuits are, so each installation comes with its own set of considerations. Older masonry in particular can be unpredictable when chasing, which is exactly why using dustless extraction makes such a difference – it keeps the disruption manageable in a lived-in home.
