Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood
Home automation in Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Brentwood.
Westside estates are built with an integrator, a lighting designer and an architect, and the automation is specified before the framing goes up. County Line Electric builds the backbone those specifications depend on, at rough-in, and installs the systems alongside the integrator or as the integrator.
Call (805) 499-0823. CA Lic. #949580.
- Rough-inIs where it starts
- IntegratorAlongside or as
- LutronLighting and shades
Image courtesy of Lutron. County Line Electric is a Lutron dealer.
Why here
The most specified houses in the city, and the wiring that has to match.
A Beverly Hills, Bel Air or Brentwood estate arrives with drawings for everything: a lighting plan, an AV plan, a security plan, a network plan, sometimes a separate theater designer. The electrical contractor's job is to make all of them true in the walls: the conduit to every screen and speaker, the rack room with its power and cooling, the pathways to every camera and keypad, the shade pockets with power, the head end where the integrator needs it. County Line reads those drawings before the walk, builds the backbone at rough-in and attends the coordination meetings so nothing gets discovered at trim.
Where there is an integrator, County Line works alongside them and builds the infrastructure they specify. Where there is not, County Line installs the automation itself: Lutron lighting and shades, security and cameras, multi-room audio and video, the theater, networking and climate, with the control platform chosen with the owner. Permits are City of Beverly Hills or LADBS depending on the side of the line, and power is SCE or LADWP accordingly.
The systems
What runs on the backbone.
Lighting and shades
Lutron HomeWorks and Ketra, programmed with the designer.
Lutron hereTheater and media
A dedicated theater done properly, and video to every screen in the house.
Audio
Music in every room, inside and out, from a rack with real power and cooling.
Security and cameras
Alarm, locks, gate, cameras at the perimeter, on one system.
Network
Wired, enterprise-grade, with access points placed for the house and the grounds.
Climate and energy
Thermostats, pool and spa, the generator and the chargers.
Outdoor
Landscape lighting, outdoor audio and video, the pool and the tennis court.
Control
Keypads, touch panels, the app and voice, for how the household lives.
- 30 yrsIn the electrical tradeJeff Tucker has run County Line Electric in the Conejo Valley since the 1990s.
- #949580California contractor licenseLicensed, bonded and insured. Check it on the CSLB site any time.
- 24 hrsGenerator estimatesA written standby generator estimate within a day of the site visit.
- $600Twice-yearly generator serviceBoth visits, for the year. Jeff's comparison: the large installers quote the same service at about $1,000.
Westside automation questions
Does County Line Electric work with my integrator?
Yes. On Westside estates County Line Electric usually builds the electrical and low-voltage backbone the integrator specifies, at rough-in, and coordinates with them through trim. Where there is no integrator, County Line installs the automation systems itself.
Does County Line install home automation in Beverly Hills?
Yes. County Line Electric designs and installs whole-home automation in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills and Brentwood: Lutron lighting and shades, security and cameras, theater and multi-room audio and video, networking, climate and energy, with the backbone built at rough-in on new construction or after a survey on existing estates.
What should be decided before framing?
Every screen, speaker, camera, keypad and shade location, the rack room and its cooling, and the conduit paths between them. County Line asks for those decisions at plan review so the backbone goes in once.
Related
The part nobody sees
The network is the house.
Every automation system runs on the network, and the network is where most systems fail. A consumer router in a closet, a single access point for a 6,000 square foot house, cameras on the same wireless as the televisions: these are the reasons a smart home stops being used. County Line builds the network the way a commercial electrician builds one: wired drops to every fixed device, enterprise access points placed from a survey of the house, separate traffic for cameras and for guests, a rack with real power and cooling, and conduit between buildings where there is a guest house or a gate.
That network is also what makes the system replaceable. Control platforms change every few years; a wired backbone does not. A house County Line pre-wires can change its control system without opening a wall.
Decide this before framing
The automation questions a builder should ask at plan review.
- Where is every television, speaker, camera, keypad, touch panel and shade going, on the drawings, not in a later conversation
- Where does the rack live, and does that room have power, cooling and a path to the roof for antennas
- What runs on the generator: the network, the cameras, the gate and the head end should
- Which buildings need to be connected, and is there conduit between them
- Who owns the control platform decision, the owner, the designer or an integrator, and when is it made
- What does the owner actually want to do from a phone, and what should just happen on its own
Official references
Where the facts on this page come from.
County Line links to the authorities rather than restating them. Rules change; these pages are current.
- City of Beverly Hills: permits on the SCE side
- LADBS: permits on the LADWP side
- Lutron: HomeWorks, Ketra and shades
- CSLB license check: license #949580
Next step
Tell us how the house should work.
Name, phone, city and a line about the project. The office calls back, and a site visit is scheduled if it makes sense. No pressure, no sales script.
Or call (805) 499-0823. Monday to Friday, 9 to 5.