Herne Bay TV aerial repairs
When a North Sea storm hits Herne Bay, the aerials on the seafront and up on the Beltinge cliffs are the first to suffer. We make them safe, put them back on Dover and test every channel.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Herne Bay most days.
From £99repairs in CT6
The faults we fix most in Herne Bay
Herne Bay has a lot of bungalows, especially around Studd Hill, Greenhill and Hampton, and many have the aerial on a short pole at the gable end. Those fixings are easy to reach, which keeps repair costs down, but they are also low enough to be shielded by a neighbour’s new loft conversion. If your picture went soon after building work next door, raising the aerial a metre is often all it needs.
Behind Central Parade there are older houses split into flats with one aerial feeding several homes through a cheap splitter in the loft. When one flat loses its picture, the splitter or a single cable run is usually to blame. We test each outlet and replace the splitter with a powered one if the signal is too thin.
Every kind of aerial repair in Herne Bay
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Herne Bay 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 Herne Bay satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Herne Bay
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 Herne Bay
Local answers for Herne Bay. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
My aerial is leaning after the storm in Herne Bay. Is it dangerous?
It can be. A leaning pole means the bracket or lashing has failed, and the next gust could bring it down. Mention it when you ring and it goes to the top of the list. We secure it first, then decide with you whether it can be refixed or needs replacing.
Can you repair an aerial on a Herne Bay bungalow quickly?
Usually within an hour once we are there. Bungalow aerials are easy to reach, so most jobs are a new cable, a new aerial head or a fresh bracket.
Do you do aerial repairs in Reculver and Hillborough?
Yes. We cover the whole of the CT6 area, including Reculver, Hillborough, Broomfield and Herne village.
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 Herne Bay
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Herne Bay, see the Herne Bay area page or our Herne Bay 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