6:45 AM
Good Morning
Lights fade up, the thermostat adjusts and the shades open with the sunrise.
New Construction Low Voltage — Utah
Wire It Once.
Run It as One System.
Building in Park City, Alpine, Holladay or Kaysville? One licensed Utah crew bids, pre-wires and programs the whole low-voltage package — security and monitored fire, cameras, network and WiFi, whole-home audio and theater, lighting, shades and automation — before the drywall goes up.
One Contract, Every Low-Voltage System
What a Full Estimate Covers
Most new homes end up with four or five low-voltage subs who never meet. We bid it as one scope, run it from one plan set, and hand over one system. Everything below is priced, rough-wired, trimmed and programmed by the same crew.
Security & Monitored Fire
Door and window contacts, motions, glass-breaks, keypad and panel locations, and a monitored fire system that reports to the station, not just the hallway.
Cameras
Wired camera runs placed to cover the approach, the driveway and the doors rather than the easy corner, with a recorder in the rack and clips in the same app as the alarm.
Network & WiFi
Cat6 to every TV, office and access point, ceiling positions so coverage is designed rather than hoped for, a rack with room to grow, and a second internet path for when the first drops.
Audio & Theater
In-ceiling and in-wall speaker locations, surround and height channels, subwoofer positions, patio and landscape runs, and the dedicated theater if the plan has one.
Lighting & Shades
Keypad boxes at doors and bedsides, panelized or wireless lighting control, and shade power at the window heads — the runs most often missed and most expensive to add later.
Automation & Voice
The control layer that ties it together: Control4, Crestron or Savant with touchscreens and remotes, Josh.ai microphones where you want to talk to the house, and scenes programmed before move-in.
Happy to bid the whole package or the piece your builder is short on. Plenty of homes start us on network and security and add the rest at trim.
Pre-Wire During Framing
The Cheapest Dollar
Is the One Before Drywall
Cable is close to free while the framing is open and expensive afterwards, because the same run then means cutting, patching, texture and paint. We are on site four times and you hear from us before each one.
- Plans and bid. Send the plan set. We mark every drop, price the scope and walk it with you and your builder before anything is ordered
- Rough-in. After electrical and mechanical, before insulation. One trip, scheduled against your rough inspection, every wall photographed before it closes
- Trim-out. Keypads, speakers, cameras, panels and the rack once paint and ceilings are done
- Handover. We program the scenes, commission the system and sit with you so you leave the walkthrough knowing how to run the house
The window is framing complete to insulation. If your date moves, tell us and it is fine. Finding out at drywall is the one call we ask every builder to make.
Then It Becomes One System
One Tap. The Whole House Responds.
The payoff for wiring it right is a house that runs as one system instead of twelve apps. These are scenes we program before you move in.
8:10 AM
Leaving Home
Doors lock, the alarm arms, lights turn off and the garage closes behind you.
7:30 PM
Movie Night
Lights dim, shades close and the theater powers on to the right input.
10:45 PM
Goodnight
The house locks up, lights fade out, the alarm arms and the thermostat settles in.
Local, Licensed & Based in Lehi
Where We Build
Shield Low Voltage is a licensed Utah low voltage contractor headquartered in Lehi. These are the neighborhoods where we pre-wire and program new homes most weeks, and where our crews already know the inspectors, the builders and the drive.
Wasatch Back
Park City, the Snyderville Basin (84098), Heber City and Midway. Second homes and ski-in estates that sit empty in April and need to be checked from a phone.
North Utah County
Lehi, Alpine and Highland, Cedar Hills and Mapleton. Our home turf, and the custom-build corridor we drive every day.
Salt Lake East Bench
Holladay, Cottonwood Heights and Draper. Remodels and new builds on tight lots where the pre-wire plan has to be exact the first time.
Davis & Morgan County
Kaysville, Farmington and Fruit Heights, and the canyon estates above Mountain Green and Morgan. Larger lots, outbuildings and gates, and long runs that reward getting the network design right.
Free plan reviewSend the drawings; we mark every drop and price the package. No obligation.
Licensed & insuredUtah low voltage contractor; Burglar Alarm Company License #14207727-6501.
Local crew, not a call centerThe technician who wires your home is the one who answers when you call.
Builders & architectsVolume pricing and specs for one home or a hundred.
Before you send the plans
New construction low voltage, answered straight.
When do you need to be involved?
Before framing is done. The ideal moment is when the plan set is final and the electrician is bidding: we mark the low-voltage drops on the same drawings so the two trades never fight over a stud bay. Rough-in happens after electrical and mechanical and before insulation, usually in one trip.
What does a full low-voltage pre-wire cost?
It scales with the house and what you want it to do. A base pre-wire covers the panel, network drops to the main rooms and home runs to the rack; every TV, speaker zone, shade, camera, keypad and thermostat adds a run. Our budget calculator shows the pre-wire as its own line next to the systems it feeds, and the plan review turns it into a fixed number.
My builder already has an electrician. Do I still need you?
Yes, for the same reason you have a plumber and an HVAC contractor. Electricians run line voltage; we run the data, speaker, camera, shade and control cabling that a modern house depends on, to the specs the equipment needs. We coordinate directly with your electrician and framer so you are not relaying messages between trades.
Can I pre-wire now and add the systems later?
That is how most of our builds work. Pre-wire is cheap during framing and the equipment can follow at trim, at move-in or years later. We label and photograph every run so whoever finishes the job, including a future you, knows exactly what is in the walls.
Do you work with the builder or with me?
Either, and usually both. Builders send us plan sets and get a bid and a schedule; homeowners get a walkthrough of the plan and a say in every device location. If you are an owner-builder, we are used to that too and will tell you plainly which runs matter and which are optional.
Where do you work?
We are headquartered in Lehi and build across the Wasatch Front and Back: Park City, the Snyderville Basin, Heber City and Midway; Morgan and Mountain Green; Lehi, Alpine, Highland, Cedar Hills and Mapleton; Holladay, Cottonwood Heights and Draper; and Kaysville, Farmington and Fruit Heights.
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We’ll mark them up, price the whole low-voltage scope and give you a rough-in date — whether that’s one house or a season of them.
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Wasatch Front and Back. Licensed and insured.