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Low voltage Audio & video Southwest Florida

Everything connected. Nothing showing.

Home theater, whole-home audio, structured cabling, Wi-Fi, cameras and fiber — designed, pulled, terminated and tested by one installer with 8 years in the trade. Port Charlotte to Naples.

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  • 8 years in low voltage
  • Owner on every job
  • 50 miles around Fort Myers

The part nobody photographs

Inside the walls

Every device in a well-built house is the end of a wire, and every wire goes home to the same rack. Pick a system to see the runs it takes to get there.

Drawing
Section, typical coastal home
Layers
6 systems, one rack
Devices
29 shown
Section through a coastal home showing the networking layerA cutaway drawing of a two-storey coastal Florida house with a lanai and pool. Every device on the networking layer — 6 of them — is drawn with its cable run rising into the nearest ceiling cavity, along a shared horizontal, down the chase beside the utility closet, and into the equipment rack.PrimaryBedroomOfficeGreat roomKitchenUtilityLanaiAtticRACK
Networking — 6 devices, every run home to one rack
  • Access point — lower level
  • Access point — upper level
  • Access point — lanai
  • Cat6 drop — office
  • Cat6 drop — great room
  • Cat6 drop — bedroom
A representative section, not a specific customer's house. Runs rise into the nearest ceiling cavity, share a horizontal, drop the chase beside the utility closet, and land labelled on the panel.

Why the details matter

What you see is clean because of what you don't.

You see the television on the wall and the speakers in the ceiling. What you do not see is everything behind them — the drop through the stud bay, the plate in the attic, the service loop coiled in a closet you will open twice a year. Nobody photographs a cable run. Nobody compliments a service loop.

Which is exactly why it has to be right the first time. A drop pulled in the wrong place is a wall you open again. A cable pulled tight to length is a device you cannot replace. The difference between a job that lasts twenty years and a job that gets torn out in three is decided in the hour before anything is closed up — and nobody is standing there watching.

Jalen Pledger, founder

A rack of network equipment with Cat6 patch cables combed into parallel arcs, banded by colour and secured with velcro, status lights glowing along the panel. The one part you do see
A rack is the only place the whole system is visible at once. If it is dressed, labelled and loomed, the rest of the house almost always is too.
  • Low voltage contractor
  • Low voltage installation
  • Audio-video installation
  • Home theater installation
  • TV mounting service
  • Whole-home audio installation
  • Security camera installation
  • CCTV installation
  • Alarm system installation
  • Access control installation
  • Door-entry systems
  • Network cabling installation
  • Structured cabling contractor
  • Ethernet cable installation
  • Commercial Wi-Fi installation
  • Wi-Fi network installation
  • Fiber-optic cable installation
  • Data cabling contractor
  • Smart-home installation
  • Commercial AV installation

Six things, done properly

What I do

The same six marks that are on the truck and the business card. Residential and commercial, new construction and retrofit — from a single television to a whole house roughed in before the drywall goes up.

Trade
Low voltage
Work
Residential + commercial
Not offered
Fire alarm systems, IT help desk & software support

  1. 01 Audio

    Sound that belongs to the room

    Whole-home and outdoor audio built around the architecture instead of fighting it — in-ceiling and in-wall speakers set flush, amplifiers racked and labelled, every zone balanced by ear before we leave.

    • Whole-home audio installation
    • In-ceiling & in-wall speakers
    • Outdoor & lanai audio
    • Multi-zone amplification
    • Speaker wire pulls (16/2, 14/2)
    A screened lanai and pool deck at sunset, with landscape speakers set discreetly into tropical planting and an outdoor television under the covered roof.

  2. 02 Video

    A picture with nothing showing but the picture

    Televisions and projectors mounted dead level and dead flush, power and signal fished inside the wall, sources hidden. Home cinema from a first pull of conduit to a calibrated screen.

    • Home theater installation
    • TV mounting & recessed outlets
    • Projector & screen installation
    • HDMI / HDBaseT distribution
    • In-wall cable concealment
    A private home cinema with two tiers of linen recliners facing a large screen, fabric acoustic panels and a fibre-optic star ceiling.

  3. 03 Automation

    One button instead of eleven

    Smart-home control wired properly at the low-voltage layer — lighting scenes, shades, thermostats and AV brought under a single interface your family can actually use.

    • Smart-home installation
    • Lighting control & keypads
    • Motorized shade wiring
    • Universal remote & app control
    • Rack-level integration
    A flush-mounted smart-home control panel set into a limewashed plaster wall, its screen glowing softly, a palm shadow falling across the plaster.

  4. 04 Networking

    Coverage that holds at the far end of the lanai

    Structured cabling done to spec: Cat6 home runs, punched and tested patch panels, access points placed by coverage rather than convenience. Commercial Wi-Fi that survives a full house.

    • Structured cabling (Cat6 / Cat6A)
    • Network cabling & patch panels
    • Wi-Fi access point placement
    • Commercial Wi-Fi installation
    • Rack build & cable management
    A quiet study with a flush ceiling-mounted wireless access point, a white-oak desk and bars of low sunlight across the floor.

  5. 05 Security

    Eyes where you need them, seen by no one

    Camera systems, alarms and access control installed the way they should be — hard-wired, aimed on site, recorded locally, and reviewed with you before sign-off.

    • Security camera & CCTV installation
    • Alarm system installation
    • Access control & door entry
    • NVR / recorder configuration
    • 22/4 security wire pulls
    The front elevation of a coastal home at dusk, warm light in the windows, a discreet dome camera under the soffit and landscape lighting grazing the wall.

  6. 06 Fiber optic

    Light, carried without loss

    Single-mode and multi-mode fiber runs between buildings, floors and racks — pulled with the right tension, terminated clean, and tested end to end.

    • Fiber-optic cable installation
    • Building-to-building runs
    • Fusion & mechanical termination
    • Data cabling contractor work
    • Certification & documentation
    A macro view of a fanned bundle of optical fibre strands, each tipped with a bright point of light against a near-black background.

The photographs in this section are generated reference images of the kinds of system described, not pictures of a particular customer's home. Ask and I will walk you through real work in person.

Document Standard of work
Installer Jalen Pledger
Trade Low voltage
Rev 01

Standards you can hold me to

How I work

Coastal AV Solutions is four weeks old. I am not going to show you a wall of testimonials I do not have yet. What I can put in writing is exactly how the work gets done — and you can hold me to every line of it.

Crew
One — the owner
Experience
8 years in the trade
Handover
Drawings and a cell number

  1. Every drop labelled

    Both ends. Panel and plate. The next person to open that wall — me in five years, or somebody else — should not have to guess.

  2. Tested, not assumed

    Data runs get certified, not just toned out. Cameras get aimed on site and reviewed on the recorder. Audio zones get balanced by ear.

  3. Service loops left in

    Slack coiled and dressed at the panel and at the device. Equipment changes. Cable pulled tight to length does not forgive that.

  4. The wall closes clean

    Cut where the plate covers. Anchor into structure. Patch and paint if I opened it. Drop cloths down before the first hole.

  5. One person, start to finish

    The tech who walked the job is the tech who pulls the wire and the tech who hands it back. Nothing is lost between a salesman and a subcontractor.

  6. You get the drawings

    Panel schedule, camera map, network map, model and serial list. Yours to keep, whoever you call next.

What happens, in order

  1. Step 1

    Walk

    I come out and look. Where the drops need to land, what is already in the wall, what the attic and the slab will and will not allow.

  2. Step 2

    Quote

    A written scope with counts on it — this many drops, these cameras, that amplifier. No line reading "miscellaneous".

  3. Step 3

    Install

    Rough-in, then trim. Drop cloths down, tools off the floor at the end of the day, and a text before I arrive.

  4. Step 4

    Hand over

    We walk it together. I show you the app, the recorder, the panel. You get the documentation and my cell number.

50 miles, 3 counties

Where I work

Port Charlotte to Naples — roughly fifty miles around Fort Myers.

Base
Fort Myers, Florida
Radius
50 miles
Counties
Lee County, Collier County, Charlotte County
Service area map of Southwest FloridaA simplified map of the Southwest Florida coast with a 50-mile circle drawn around Fort Myers. It reaches North Port and Port Charlotte at the north and Marco Island at the south, taking in Lee, Collier, Charlotte and southern Sarasota counties.153050 MIFort MyersCape CoralNorth Fort MyersLehigh AcresFort Myers BeachSanibelCaptivaEsteroBonita SpringsNaplesMarco IslandImmokaleePunta GordaPort CharlotteNorth Port

Fifty miles around Fort Myers, as quoted — Port Charlotte at the north end to Marco Island at the south. Outside it? Still call. If the job is worth the drive I will tell you honestly.

Lee County

  • Fort Myers
  • Cape Coral
  • North Fort Myers
  • Lehigh Acres
  • Fort Myers Beach
  • Sanibel
  • Captiva
  • Estero
  • Bonita Springs

Collier County

  • Naples
  • Marco Island
  • Immokalee

Charlotte County

  • Punta Gorda
  • Port Charlotte

Sarasota County

  • North Port

No price, no pressure

Scope your job

Counts first. Tell me roughly how many of what and where it is, and I will come out, walk it, and put a written number on it. Nothing here commits you to anything.

Output
A scope sheet, not a price
Commits you to
Nothing
Reply
Same or next day
01 What are we working on?
02 How many of what?

Rough is fine — a guess within one or two is more useful than a blank. Leave anything at zero that does not apply.

  • Wall or ceiling, indoor or out
    TVs
  • Screen, projector, seating-row wiring
    rooms
  • A zone is an area with its own volume
    zones
  • Lanai, pool deck, dock, garden
    areas
  • One Cat6 run, rack to wall plate
    drops
  • Roughly one per floor, plus outside
    APs
  • Hard-wired, recorded on site
    cameras
  • Keypad, reader, strike or maglock
    doors
  • Lighting scenes, shades, whole-house
    keypads
  • Between buildings, floors or racks
    runs
03 Where and when?
Port Charlotte to Naples — roughly fifty miles around Fort Myers.
Helps me tell you honestly when I could start.
04 How do I reach you?
 
A phone number or an email — either is enough.
 
Access, construction type, deadlines, whatever is on your mind.

Professional integration. Dependable performance.

Coastal AV Solutions · Fort Myers, Florida