TV aerial repairs in Faversham
Faversham is one of the few towns where an aerial can point at two different transmitters. When the picture fails here, part of the fix is checking yours is on the right one.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Faversham most days.
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Common aerial faults around Faversham
We often find Faversham aerials aimed at Bluebell Hill when, from that particular roof, Dover would be stronger, or the other way round. Both send the same Kent channels, but the clearer path depends on which side of town you are and what stands in the way. Before we replace anything, we measure both, and sometimes turning the aerial is the whole repair.
The town’s older streets have tall chimneys and long cable runs down the outside of the house. Squirrels and birds pull at loose cable, and ivy on the brickwork works clips loose until the cable hangs. On the newer estates at Lady Dane Farm and Oare, the fault is more often a loft amplifier left switched off or unplugged after building work.
From a loose plug to a new aerial in Faversham
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Faversham 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 Faversham satellite page.
Match your Faversham fault to a fix
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.
What Faversham customers ask about repairs
Local answers for Faversham. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Should my Faversham aerial point at Bluebell Hill or Dover?
It depends on the street. Most of the town does best with Bluebell Hill to the west, but some eastern parts and Boughton get cleaner reception from Dover. We test both on your roof before we choose.
Can you repair an aerial in Faversham without going on the roof?
Sometimes. Many faults are in the loft, at the wall plate or behind the TV. We check those first and only go up when the problem is at the aerial itself.
Do you repair aerials in Oare, Ospringe and Boughton?
Yes. All the villages around Faversham are covered, including Graveney, Sheldwich and Selling.
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 photoNeighbouring towns to Faversham
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Faversham, see the Faversham area page or our Faversham 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