TV aerial repairs in Chatham
Chatham lives in the shadow of Bluebell Hill, which brings its own aerial problems. We fix them across the town, from the valley streets to the estates up at Walderslade.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Chatham most days.
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What goes wrong with Chatham aerials
Walderslade and Lordswood are right next to Bluebell Hill, and the signal can be extremely strong. Many aerials there were fitted with amplifiers that are no longer needed, and some are pointing at the wrong transmitter entirely. A small aerial, aimed properly and without an amplifier, often gives a cleaner picture.
Down in the valley around Luton and the New Road, the hills can block the line to the mast. Homes there need a different approach: a taller pole, a better aerial or a different position on the roof. We measure the signal before deciding.
What we can fix in Chatham
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Chatham 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 Chatham satellite page.
What’s wrong with the picture in Chatham?
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 Chatham
Local answers for Chatham. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why is my picture bad in Walderslade when the transmitter is so close?
Too much signal can overload your TV. We check the levels and remove or reduce amplification, which usually clears it.
Do you repair aerials in Chatham Maritime flats?
Yes. Many of those flats share a communal system. We can test it and report to the managing agent, or fix your own socket and cable.
How quickly can you come to Chatham?
Usually the same day. Medway is one of our busiest areas.
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 Chatham
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Chatham, see the Chatham area page or our Chatham 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