Mon–Sat 8am–7pm · repairs usually booked for today Based in Canterbury, covering all of Kent Independent specialists since 2000
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TV aerial repairs in Gravesend

From the riverside streets to the estates at Singlewell and Riverview Park, we repair Gravesend’s aerials quickly and carefully, usually the same day.

Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Gravesend most days.

From £99repairs in DA11

The faults we fix most in Gravesend

Gravesend’s riverside homes catch the wind off the Thames, and aerials there often work loose or swing off aim. Salt and damp from the river also corrode connectors. We repair with stronger fixings and sealed joints, which last much longer.

The Victorian and Edwardian streets around the town centre have tall chimneys and long cable runs. Old cable is the most common fault there, and replacing it often brings back missing channels.

Check the symptoms in Gravesend

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 Gravesend

Local answers for Gravesend. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.

Why does my aerial in Gravesend keep moving?

The wind off the Thames is strong. We fit stronger brackets and lashings so the aerial holds its aim.

Do you repair aerials in Northfleet and Chalk?

Yes. We cover Northfleet, Chalk, Singlewell, Perry Street and Riverview Park.

Can you repair an aerial on a tall house near the river?

Yes. We have the equipment to work safely on tall Victorian houses.

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.

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Repairs in towns next to Gravesend

Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Gravesend, see the Gravesend area page or our Gravesend 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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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
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