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TV aerial repairs in Paddock Wood
Paddock Wood is flat, open and a long way from Bluebell Hill. We repair aerials across the town, its new estates and the villages around it.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Paddock Wood most days.
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The faults we fix most in Paddock Wood
The land around Paddock Wood is low and flat, so the signal from Bluebell Hill arrives fairly weak. Aerials here need to be well aimed and well connected, because there is little spare signal. A small fault that would go unnoticed in Maidstone can cause channels to vanish here.
The new estates on the edges of town have loft amplifiers and multiple sockets. When the picture fails in every room, the amplifier or its power is usually to blame. When it fails in one room, it is that room’s cable.
Every kind of aerial repair in Paddock Wood
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Paddock Wood 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 Paddock Wood satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Paddock Wood
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 Paddock Wood
Local answers for Paddock Wood. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why does my Paddock Wood picture drop out?
The signal is weaker here, so small faults matter more. We check the aerial, cable and connections, and may fit a higher-gain aerial.
Do you repair aerials in Staplehurst and Marden?
Yes. We cover Staplehurst, Marden, Horsmonden, Brenchley and Five Oak Green.
Do new-build homes in Paddock Wood need an amplifier?
Usually yes, to feed several rooms. If yours has failed, we can replace it.
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 Paddock Wood
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Paddock Wood, see the Paddock Wood area page or our Paddock Wood 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