Alibaug Bungalow

The constraint

The property was finished before the network was specified. The bungalow was built, the garden was built, the machaan area was built, and the walls and ceilings were closed. Opening them up again — the conventional route to a clean cable path — was not on the table.

What the client wanted was not modest either: Wi-Fi across every corner of the grounds outside, including the parts of a roughly three-acre property that nobody normally walks to.

Working with what was already there

The electrician's first fix had left usable cable in places — runs already placed near the televisions, and cable available in ceilings. We surveyed what was there and reused the routes that suited access-point connectivity, rather than pulling new copper through finished ceilings for the sake of a tidier diagram.

That is the whole posture of this project. The network was fitted to the building that existed, not to the building a network designer would have preferred.

Junctions first, then fibre

Three acres is too much ground to serve with copper from a single point, so the distribution went outdoors. We created five outdoor junction points around the property, used fibre for the legs where Cat6 distance would not have held, and ran Cat6 from each junction to the equipment near it — which kept every final copper run short and manageable.

Five long-range outdoor access points feed from those junctions. Outdoors we specified armoured Cat6: on this site the cable has weather and termite exposure to survive, and armoured is what survives it.

CCTV, pointed outward

The camera brief was really a privacy brief. The client specifically did not want cameras inside the property or facing inward. One camera was installed in the kitchen, at their request. Everything else was laid out to face outward, toward the property line and the approaches to it.

That is a design decision rather than a limitation: the coverage follows what the client wanted watched, which was the edge of the property and not the people living inside it.

The result

• Coverage across the grounds — the outdoor areas are served from five junctions rather than from the house, which is what makes the far corners reachable at all.
• Distances handled properly — fibre carries the long legs, Cat6 carries the short ones, and no run is fighting its own length.
• Built for the weather — armoured Cat6 outdoors, specified for the exposure this site actually has.
• Cameras the client agreed with — one indoors by request, the rest facing outward, matching the privacy line the client drew.
• No walls reopened — existing routes reused where they were suitable, and new infrastructure placed outdoors instead.