Integration at Work, AV designs and installs lighting control, motorized shades, whole-home audio and home theater across Tulsa and the surrounding metro.
Tulsa is really two cities to wire. North of 51st you have the oil-boom neighborhoods — Maple Ridge, Swan Lake, Brookside, Cherry Street — most of it built between the 1910s and the 1940s, with plaster walls, original wiring in places, and floor plans that predate the idea of a media room. These homes are beautiful and they are the hardest automation work in the metro. Running cable behind plaster without tearing up a hundred-year-old wall takes patience and a plan, and it is not the same job as a new build.
South of 51st, Tulsa turns into a different city entirely. Much of it was built after Tulsa annexed more than 100 square miles in 1966: subdivisions on slab, big open great rooms, two-story entries, and the same pre-wired problem you find in every Tulsa County suburb — Cat5e and RG6 installed for how people watched TV in 2005, not for how they use a house today.
Integration at Work, AV works across both. Midtown installs get planned around plaster, existing chases, and where an attic drop is actually possible. South Tulsa installs are about undoing an obsolete pre-wire and putting a real network behind it.
A 1925 Maple Ridge home was wired when three circuits was generous. Integration at Work, AV retrofits lighting control into homes like these without gutting them — working through existing switch boxes, existing chases, and attic access where the framing allows.
Lighting Control in TulsaMidtown basements and South Tulsa bonus rooms are two different theater projects. Some older Midtown homes have real basements, which is rare in Oklahoma and excellent for sound isolation. South Tulsa homes are on slab with the bonus room over the garage.
Home Theater in TulsaThe most common Tulsa call. Plaster walls in Midtown, especially over metal lath, block WiFi far more than drywall does, so coverage in a 1920s home is an access-point planning problem, not a router problem. In South Tulsa, the issue is a Cat5e pre-wire that is marginal for 4K video distribution.
Home Networking & WiFi in TulsaMidtown homes have tall original windows that were never meant to be covered by anything motorized — custom sizing matters. South Tulsa great rooms have the west-facing glass wall that makes the room unusable by four o'clock in July.
Motorized Shades in TulsaMidtown's older homes occasionally have the rare thing in Oklahoma: a real basement, and one with 9 or 10 feet of headroom is an outstanding simulator space. South Tulsa is the opposite — slab construction, 8 to 9 foot ceilings, and the garage as the realistic answer.
Golf simulator design and installationYour WiFi dies in the back bedroom because of distance and walls, not because your router is cheap. Every wall a signal passes through costs…
Read itMost golf simulator projects in the Tulsa area live or die on one number, and it is the ceiling. A comfortable simulator wants about 10 feet of…
Read itA whole-home lighting and shading system in the Tulsa metro typically runs $25,000 to $100,000 and up. Lighting control for a single room starts in…
Read itUsually, yes. Integration at Work, AV works regularly in Maple Ridge, Swan Lake and Brookside homes built in the 1920s and 30s, where plaster and lath make cable runs harder than they would be in drywall. The approach is to plan around existing chases, closets and attic access rather than opening walls. Some runs are not possible without a small repair, and those get identified and priced before any work starts.
Many older plaster walls are thicker and denser than drywall, and some were built over metal lath, a wire mesh that blocks wireless signal badly. Integration at Work, AV plans coverage around that. A single router in a 1920s Tulsa home almost never covers the whole house regardless of how expensive the router is. The fix is wired access points placed for the floor plan, which is a design question rather than an equipment question.
It depends on scope. A television mounted flush with concealed wiring and a sound system to match is usually a one-day job in the hundreds to low thousands. Motorized shades for a room, or lighting control for the main living areas, generally lands between $5,000 and $20,000. Whole-home lighting, shading and automation on a larger build typically runs $25,000 to $100,000+. Integration at Work, AV gives you a firm, itemized number before any work begins.
Yes. Integration at Work, AV is based in South Tulsa, and the people who design your system are the people who service it. Many issues can be diagnosed remotely before anybody drives out, which is the practical difference between a local integrator and a national installer.
Tell us about the project and we will call you back within one business day to schedule a free in-home design consultation.
