TV aerial repairs in Deal and Walmer
Deal’s seafront homes face the Channel head on, and the salt and wind are hard on aerials. We repair them with fittings made to last and test every channel before we leave.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Deal most days.
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What goes wrong with Deal aerials
In the narrow streets of the old town between Middle Street and Beach Street, chimneys are close together and many aerials share a stack. A neighbour’s builder knocking a lashing loose can leave your aerial hanging without you knowing. If your picture went after work next door, that is the first thing we look at.
Walmer and Upper Deal have more 1930s semis and post-war houses with aerials on the chimney. The common fault there is an old masthead amplifier that has failed, often fitted years ago to cure a problem that no longer exists. Removing it and fitting a modern aerial usually gives a cleaner picture than the amplifier ever did.
What we can fix in Deal
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Deal 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 Deal satellite page.
What’s wrong with the picture in Deal?
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 Deal
Local answers for Deal. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why do I lose channels in Kingsdown when other parts of Deal are fine?
The chalk cliffs and downs between Kingsdown and Dover can partly block the signal. A higher-gain aerial, placed as high as possible, usually solves it. We measure before recommending anything.
Can you repair an aerial on a Deal seafront house in bad weather?
We make it safe in almost any weather, but we wait for a calm spell to do the full repair, because a ladder on the seafront in a gale is not safe. If the aerial is hanging, we remove it first.
Do you repair aerials in Mongeham and Ringwould?
Yes. We cover Great and Little Mongeham, Ringwould, Sholden and Ripple as part of our Deal visits.
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 Deal
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Deal, see the Deal area page or our Deal 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