Iron Horse · Leawood golf community
Iron Horse · late-90s builds, current-generation systems.
IntegrateIT is a home automation and AV integrator serving the Iron Horse neighborhoods of south Leawood, Kansas, a few minutes from the design center at 15108 Glenwood Ave, Overland Park. These homes were wired for the technology of their decade, which is the situation we are called into: system takeovers that keep the sound cable and replace what has aged out, lighting control, a network placed by level. Control4 Platinum Dealer, Crestron Elite Partner, Lutron Certified Dealer, CEDIA member, HTA Certified. Five-year workmanship warranty. (913) 804-7575.
Iron Horse takes its name from the golf club it wraps around, on the Mission Road side of south Leawood in Johnson County. The neighborhoods here went up largely in the late 1990s and early 2000s on generous, now-mature lots: large two-story homes with finished lower levels, three-car garages and views onto the course or the greenbelt. They were wired for the technology of that decade, which is exactly the situation we are usually called into. Our Overland Park design center is a few minutes away.
Installing in Iron Horse
What is different about Iron Horse houses
Installing here is different because the houses already have cable in the walls, and much of it is still good. Homes from this era were often wired for structured media, distributed audio and early automation, then left with equipment that has since died. The productive move is a takeover: test what the walls carry, pull the dead hardware, and put a current Control4 and Lutron system on top of infrastructure that is already there. That keeps disruption and cost far below a full rebuild.
Scale is the second issue. These are big multi-level houses with finished lower levels and deep back yards facing the course, and the network installed with the house was never meant to carry what a family runs today. We cable access points by level rather than trusting one unit to punch through two floors, extend coverage to the patio and yard, and put smart-home devices on their own lane so a night of streaming does not drag the cameras down.
Third, the lower levels here are built for a theater and often already hold a tired one. Ceiling height, enclosed walls and existing wiring mean the room is usually right and the equipment is the problem, so the work becomes new projection or display, current audio, acoustic treatment and a control system that a guest can operate. Where the original room was laid out poorly, we would rather fix the seating and screen geometry than sell a larger screen into a bad room.
The kind of work we do in Iron Horse
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A system takeover that reused sound existing cable and replaced end-of-life equipment
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Whole-home automation with lighting control across a large multi-level house on the course
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A dated lower-level theater brought current, with the seating and screen geometry corrected
What we install in Iron Horse
The full integration stack — designed to disappear.
Before you call anyone in Iron Horse
We wrote down the parts most people learn the expensive way.
How to choose a home automation company
The questions worth asking before you sign with anyone — including us. What a dealer tier actually buys you, and what happens in year four.
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Golf simulator room requirements
Ceiling height, swing clearance and screen distance decide whether the room works. Measure before you buy the launch monitor, not after.
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The 25-year home tech plan
A kitchen from 2002 is still a kitchen. An automation system from 2002 is in a landfill. That asymmetry is a design choice.
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Questions from Iron Horse homeowners
Our automation is from when the house was built and nothing works. Replace or repair?
- Usually a takeover rather than a rebuild. The cable in these houses is typically intact and correctly run, even when the equipment on both ends is finished. We test what is there, keep what is good, and put a current system on top of it. That is far less invasive than rewiring, and it is the reason this work goes quickly in this neighborhood.
The original installer is out of business. Can you take the system over?
- Yes. We adopt Control4, Lutron and Crestron systems left by other integrators. The first visit documents the racks, the panel and the cabling, and produces a plain list of what stays, what gets replaced and what can wait.
Why is our Wi-Fi weak in the lower level and on the patio?
- Because a house this size with a finished basement needs more than one access point, and the equipment installed when it was built is well past its useful life. Cabling a point to the lower level and one toward the back of the house fixes the coverage properly, and devices then hand off cleanly as you move rather than holding onto a distant radio.
How close is your office to Iron Horse?
- Our design center on Glenwood Avenue in Overland Park is a short drive away, which makes both site walks and service calls simple to schedule. Support after an install is handled remotely where it can be because the system is monitored, but when a visit is needed, this neighborhood is about as convenient as it gets for us.
Iron Horse consultation
Tell us about your Iron Horse project.
Consultations are by appointment. We'll spend an hour walking through your space, talking about how you live, and sketching what's possible — at no cost, no pitch.