Margate TV aerial repairs
From the tall terraces of Cliftonville to the bungalows of Garlinge, we fix Margate aerials that have lost channels, blown out of line or corroded in the sea air.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Margate most days.
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Common aerial faults around Margate
Cliftonville’s four- and five-storey Victorian houses were mostly turned into flats long ago, and the TV wiring was added one flat at a time. We often find six or eight cables joined in the loft with tape, or a splitter with more outlets than the signal can support. Rebuilding that junction with a proper amplified distribution unit brings every flat’s picture back at once.
Westbrook and Westgate catch the wind straight off the sea. We regularly replace aerials whose elements have snapped or bent, and poles that have rusted through at the bracket. On those roads we fit stainless clamps and a stronger pole as standard, because a cheap repair here rarely survives another winter.
From a loose plug to a new aerial in Margate
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Margate 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 Margate satellite page.
Match your Margate fault to a fix
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.
What Margate customers ask about repairs
Local answers for Margate. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Our whole building in Cliftonville lost TV at once. What failed?
When every flat goes at the same time, the shared part has failed: the aerial, the main cable or the amplifier in the loft. We find which one, fix it and send a short report to the freeholder or agent if they are paying.
Can you repair the aerial on a Margate holiday let between guests?
Yes. Tell us your changeover day and we will book the repair for then, with photos sent afterwards so you know it is done.
Do you cover Birchington for aerial repairs?
Yes. Birchington, Minnis Bay and Acol are all covered, usually on the same day you call.
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 photoNeighbouring towns to Margate
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Margate, see the Margate area page or our Margate 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