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TV aerial repairs in Folkestone
Folkestone’s steep streets and the downs behind the town make it a tricky place for TV signals. We repair aerials across the town and make sure each is aimed at the best signal for its road.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Folkestone most days.
From £99repairs in CT19
The faults we fix most in Folkestone
Along the Leas and in the big Victorian houses behind it, the aerial is often five storeys up on a tall chimney. Those aerials take the full force of the Channel wind, and many have bent elements or snapped lashing wire. We bring a roof ladder and safety line for these jobs, and we often fit a smaller, sturdier aerial that holds its aim better.
In Cheriton and up at Hawkinge, faults are more about the age of the cable and connectors than the signal. Many homes still have the original installs from the 1970s and 80s. Replacing the cable and the wall plate is often enough to bring back channels that have been missing for months.
Every kind of aerial repair in Folkestone
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Folkestone 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.
from £99same-day repairs
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 Folkestone satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Folkestone
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.
Before you book a repair in Folkestone
Local answers for Folkestone. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Should my Folkestone aerial point at Dover or a relay?
It depends on your street. Higher parts of town usually see Dover clearly, while some lower roads get a better picture from the local relay. We measure both and set your aerial for the stronger.
Can you fix an aerial on a tall house on the Leas?
Yes. We have the access equipment for tall Victorian houses and do these repairs regularly. We may need to book a calm day if the wind is strong.
Do you repair aerials in Sandgate and Hawkinge?
Yes, along with Cheriton, Capel-le-Ferne and Lyminge. Same-day visits are usually possible.
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 photoRepairs in towns next to Folkestone
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Folkestone, see the Folkestone area page or our Folkestone 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