TV aerial repairs in Aylesford
Aylesford is just below Bluebell Hill, which means strong signals and, sometimes, too much of a good thing. We fix aerial faults across the village and the estates around it.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Aylesford most days.
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What goes wrong with Aylesford aerials
In Aylesford, Eccles and Blue Bell Hill village, the transmitter is only a couple of miles away. Many aerials here are oversized or fitted with unnecessary amplifiers, which can overload TVs and cause pixelation. Swapping to a smaller aerial or removing the amplifier is often the fix.
Larkfield and Ditton have many 1960s and 70s homes, with aerials on chimneys or short masts. The usual faults are old cable, corroded connectors and slipped aerials, all of which we can fix the same day.
What we can fix in Aylesford
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Aylesford repairs are finished on the first visit. You get the price before we start.
Realigning a turned aerial
Wind and slipped clamps turn aerials off the transmitter. We re-aim on a meter and fit new clamps.
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New cable and connectors
Cracked coax and corroded plugs replaced with double-screened cable and sealed compression fittings.
Amplifiers and splitters
Failed, overloaded or unpowered loft amplifiers tested, adjusted or replaced so every room works.
Storm damage
Fallen, bent or hanging aerials made safe, then refitted on a stronger pole, with photos for your insurer.
A new aerial when it’s beyond saving
If the aerial itself has failed, we fit a new one aimed at the right transmitter and test every channel.
Satellite dish faults
No satellite signal on Sky or Freesat? See our Aylesford satellite page.
What’s wrong with the picture in Aylesford?
Choose what your screen is doing. The panel shows the usual culprit and lights up the part of the house where it normally is.
Every channel says “No signal”
- Usual cause
- Usually a connector that has worked loose behind the TV or at the aerial, a loft amplifier that has died, or an aerial knocked off its bearing by the wind.
- What we do
- We check the signal at three points, the TV socket, the loft and the mast, so we replace only the part that has gone.
Pixelating or freezing when it’s wet or windy
- Usual cause
- Rainwater getting into tired coax, connectors eaten by salt air on the coast, or a mast clamp that has slipped so the aerial rocks.
- What we do
- New double-screened cable, sealed compression fittings and the clamps done up properly.
A handful of channels have vanished
- Usual cause
- An aerial made before the frequency changes, one pointing at the wrong mast for your street, or 4G and 5G from a nearby phone mast swamping the amplifier.
- What we do
- A meter reading on each multiplex tells us which. Then it is a realign, a filter or a modern wideband aerial.
Freesat or Sky can’t find the satellite
- Usual cause
- A dish nudged off target by a gale or a ladder, a failed LNB (the part on the arm), or a waterlogged cable.
- What we do
- We peak the dish on a meter, then swap the LNB or the cable if they have failed.
One room has a picture, another doesn’t
- Usual cause
- A loose wall plate, a dead output on the splitter or amplifier, or damage somewhere along that room’s cable.
- What we do
- We follow that cable from the room back to the loft and repair the fault we find.
Seeing something different? Send us a picture of the TV and an engineer will have a look.
Repair questions from Aylesford
Local answers for Aylesford. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why is my picture breaking up in Aylesford when the signal is so strong?
Too much signal can overload your TV’s tuner. We measure the levels and reduce them if needed, by removing an amplifier or fitting an attenuator.
Do you repair aerials in Larkfield and Ditton?
Yes. We cover Larkfield, Ditton, Eccles, Burham and Blue Bell Hill village.
Can you repair an aerial near the medieval bridge in Aylesford?
Yes. The old village has many historic homes, and we repair aerials there carefully, keeping them in the same position.
Quicker with a picture
Snap the aerial or dish from the garden, or the error on the TV, and WhatsApp it to us with your postcode. An engineer looks at it and replies with the likely fix and a price.
WhatsApp a photoWe also repair aerials around Aylesford
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Aylesford, see the Aylesford area page or our Aylesford satellite page.
Talk to a Canterbury engineer
Ring the office, or WhatsApp us a picture of the roof, the dish or whatever your TV is showing. Most of the time we can say what the fault is and give you a price there and then.
WhatsApp us- Our base
- Canterbury, since 2000
- Open
- Monday to Saturday, 8am to 7pm
- Where
- Every part of Kent: Thanet, the coast, Medway, Maidstone, Ashford and the Weald
- Cost
- Repairs from £99. Fixed quotes for everything else