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Broadstairs TV aerial repair service
Broadstairs is as far east as Kent goes, and that brings its own aerial problems. We fix them, from summer interference to winter storm damage, usually on the day you call.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Broadstairs most days.
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Why aerials fail in Broadstairs
On settled summer days, signals from transmitters across the North Sea can travel much further than usual and land on the same frequencies as Kent Freeview. In Broadstairs this shows up as a picture that breaks up in the evening on bright, still days and is fine the rest of the time. An aerial cannot block it completely, but a well-aimed, directional aerial with clean cable cuts it right down.
St Peter’s and Reading Street are older villages now joined to the town, with flint walls, steep roofs and plenty of mature trees. Aerials there are often mounted low on a wall bracket, where branches grow into their path. Moving them up to the chimney or onto a longer pole is a common repair.
Repairs we carry out in Broadstairs
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Broadstairs 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 Broadstairs satellite page.
Diagnose your Broadstairs TV fault
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.
Broadstairs aerial repair questions
Local answers for Broadstairs. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why does my Broadstairs TV break up on sunny evenings?
Probably interference from continental transmitters, which reach further in calm, high-pressure weather. It usually clears when the weather changes. If it happens all the time, your aerial or cable is likely weak and we can fix that.
Can you repair aerials on the clifftop houses in Kingsgate?
Yes. We work on exposed clifftop homes regularly and use heavier fixings there, because the wind off the sea is much stronger than in town.
Is there a call-out charge for Broadstairs?
Repairs start from £99, which includes the visit and testing. We tell you the price before doing any work beyond that.
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 photoAerial repairs near Broadstairs
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Broadstairs, see the Broadstairs area page or our Broadstairs 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.
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- 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