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TV aerial repairs in Gillingham and Rainham
Gillingham is only a few miles from Bluebell Hill, so the signal is strong. When the picture fails here, it is usually the equipment, and we can fix that the same day.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Gillingham most days.
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Why aerials fail in Gillingham
Close to a powerful transmitter, a TV can get too much signal as easily as too little. In Gillingham we often find old amplifiers, fitted years ago, that now overload modern TVs and cause random pixelation on some channels. Removing the amplifier or fitting an attenuator often fixes a fault that new aerials and new TVs never did.
The long Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Gillingham’s centre and in Brompton have aerials on chimneys that are often a century old. We check the chimney and brackets as well as the aerial, because a loose stack is a bigger problem than a lost channel.
Repairs we carry out in Gillingham
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Gillingham 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 Gillingham satellite page.
Diagnose your Gillingham 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.
Gillingham aerial repair questions
Local answers for Gillingham. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Can the signal be too strong in Gillingham?
Yes. Near Bluebell Hill, old amplifiers can overload modern TVs and cause pixelation. We measure the signal and remove or reduce amplification as needed.
Do you repair aerials in Rainham and Hempstead?
Yes. We cover all of Gillingham, including Rainham, Hempstead, Wigmore, Twydall and Parkwood.
My Gillingham chimney looks loose. Can you still fix the aerial?
We will check the chimney first. If it is unsafe, we can move the aerial to a wall bracket and advise you to get the chimney repaired.
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 Gillingham
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Gillingham, see the Gillingham area page or our Gillingham 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