The backbone everything else runs on. Cat6, Cat6A, and fiber — run, terminated, tested, and certified. New builds, remodels, and add-a-drop jobs, done to standard.

Every era of Cleveland construction hides its own cabling problem. Downtown towers have risers full of sixty years of abandoned copper. Flats warehouse conversions have open structure where cable is visible and dressing matters. Suburban flex is straightforward. We engineer the drop plan around the building actually in front of us, then install through vetted Northeast Ohio crews with certification results at closeout.
Cleveland’s stock runs the whole century — terra-cotta and steel towers downtown, warehouse conversions in the Flats and Ohio City, mid-century office in the eastern suburbs, and modern flex space from Independence to Solon.
Decades of abandoned cable competing for the same pathway. Removal is often part of the job.
Open structure means visible cable — support spacing and dressing are the finish work.
Asbestos-era construction where drilling requires knowing what is in the wall.
Conventional and fast, where the value is labeling and certification, not heroics.
NEC plenum and fire-stopping rules apply, and in older Cleveland buildings abandoned cable is a live issue — accumulated unused cable in plenum spaces is a fire-load violation many jurisdictions now enforce. Pre-1980 buildings also warrant caution about what is inside walls before drilling.
Removing decades of dead copper while installing what actually works.
Data density into a building designed for pallets.
Test results in a format the incoming provider will accept.
Downtown · The Flats · Ohio City · Tremont · Independence · Westlake · Beachwood · Solon · Cuyahoga County · I-480 corridor
Northeast Ohio is a little over two hours from our Sunbury base. We engineer and project-manage directly and install through vetted Cuyahoga County crews rather than rotating marketplace labor, which is what makes warranty visits and follow-up adjustments practical instead of painful. For downtown towers and Flats conversions, we walk the risers before quoting — those buildings hide too much to estimate remotely.
One crew, one quote, and none of the “that’s not in scope” surprises. Here’s what a ClearMax structured cabling & low-voltage wiring job includes.
Cat6, Cat6A, and fiber pulled through walls, ceilings, and plenum spaces to your drop locations.
Keystone jacks and patch panels terminated clean, to TIA/EIA standard.
Every drop tested and certified — you get the results, not a promise.
J-hooks, tray, and conduit installed so future runs are easy and code-compliant.
Both ends of every run labeled and mapped to your patch panel.
Fishing new drops into existing space with minimal disruption and clean patching.
From first walkthrough to hand-off, you always know what’s next and what it costs.
We map drop locations, pathways, and the IT closet before pulling a single cable.
Per-drop or project pricing, itemized. Coordinated around your buildout timeline.
Cable run through proper pathways, terminated to jacks and panels, dressed clean.
Every run tested and certified, labeled both ends, with results handed to you.
We install for specific industries and speak their software and compliance. Find your specialist page:
Line-by-line, so you know what every dollar buys.
No subcontractor roulette. One accountable team.
Hardware at our cost. We don’t mark it up.
Want us to keep it running? Roll it into managed IT.
Where it makes sense, and sometimes code requires it — abandoned cable accumulating in plenum spaces is a fire-load issue that inspectors increasingly cite. In downtown risers stuffed with decades of dead copper, removal is often necessary just to create pathway for the new runs.
It requires knowing what is in the wall first. Pre-1980 construction can contain materials that need specialist handling, so we survey and, where there is any doubt, we do not drill until it is resolved.
That each run actually meets its category spec — not just that it lights up. Without test results you have no evidence the installation was done to standard and no leverage if it underperforms later.
Tell us about your space in Columbus or Cleveland. We’ll follow up with a flat, itemized quote — usually same day.
ClearMax Labs — install and managed IT for business across Columbus, OH and Cleveland, OH.