Andy Lord of ALServices up a ladder fitting a monitored alarm warning sign at a Lancashire MOT garage
Andy on the ladder · Business alarm install at a local MOT garage

Twenty years of locked doors and clean cable runs

Andy has been installing security systems for over two decades — from single-camera home setups to industrial sites where a PTZ camera watches a scrapyard from a gantry and the nearest switch cabinet is a four-hundred-metre cable run away. That range matters: the engineering habits you build protecting plant machinery and rail-side compounds are the same ones that make a four-camera system on a detached house quietly excellent.

The business is deliberately small. Every survey, every install and every callout is done personally. That's not a limitation — it's the reason the work looks the way it does. The person quoting the job is the person drilling the holes, so there's no incentive to oversell a system and no gap between what's promised and what's fitted.

How Andy works

Survey first A free walk-round before anything is quoted. Honest advice on what you actually need — including where you don't need cameras.
Tidy installs Cables dressed and clipped, recorders racked properly, panels labelled. If a comms corner is a bird's nest when Andy arrives, it isn't when he leaves.
Privacy first Camera views masked where they overlook neighbours, commercial systems set up with signage and sensible retention — and every photo on this site has customer footage pixelated.
Aftercare Servicing, repairs and takeovers — including systems other installers fitted and walked away from.
Andy fitting a white dome CCTV camera above the café chalkboard in a village shop
Dome camera · Village café
Andy programming an intruder alarm keypad in a Lancashire shop
Panel programming · Shop takeover

Local, and staying that way

ALServices is based in Whalley and works across the Ribble Valley and wider Lancashire — Clitheroe, Longridge, Great Harwood, Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Preston and the villages in between. Being local isn't a slogan; it's what makes free surveys, quick callouts and long-term aftercare actually possible.

Most new work comes from recommendations — the shop owner who mentions the alarm to the farmer up the road, the garage that shows a customer the camera system. If you want to see the standard of work before you pick up the phone, have a look at recent installs, or read the advice guides written for the questions people around here actually ask.