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TV aerial repairs in Kings Hill
Kings Hill was built from scratch on the old West Malling airfield, and most homes share the same TV setup. We know it well and fix it fast.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Kings Hill most days.
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Why aerials fail in Kings Hill
Most Kings Hill homes were built with a loft aerial or a small roof aerial, a loft amplifier, and sockets in several rooms. As those homes reach twenty or thirty years old, the amplifiers and the push-on connectors in the loft are the parts that wear out. Replacing them usually brings every room back at once.
Kings Hill is high and open, with a clear line to Bluebell Hill, so signal strength is rarely the problem. When one room has no picture and the rest are fine, the cause is almost always that room’s cable or wall plate.
Repairs we carry out in Kings Hill
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Kings Hill 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 Kings Hill satellite page.
Diagnose your Kings Hill 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.
Kings Hill aerial repair questions
Local answers for Kings Hill. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Every room in my Kings Hill house has lost TV. What should I check?
Check the power to the loft amplifier, usually a plug or fused switch near the loft hatch. If it is on, the amplifier has probably failed, and we can replace it the same day.
Do you repair loft aerials in Kings Hill?
Yes. Many Kings Hill homes have loft aerials, and we can test, re-aim or replace them.
Can you add a TV point while repairing my aerial?
Yes. We can add sockets at the same visit, using the existing amplifier if it has a spare output.
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 Kings Hill
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Kings Hill, see the Kings Hill area page or our Kings Hill 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