Ramsgate TV aerial repairs
From the Regency crescents above the Royal Harbour to the estates at Newington and Northwood, we put Ramsgate’s TV right, usually within hours of your call.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Ramsgate most days.
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What goes wrong with Ramsgate aerials
The tall terraces facing the harbour and along the West Cliff were built for one family and now house several. Most have a single aerial with a tangle of cables running down the back wall, added over the years by different installers. When one flat loses its picture, we follow its cable from the socket to the roof and fix the break, rather than rewiring the whole house.
Further inland, at Newington and Nethercourt, homes are mostly 1950s to 1970s with aerials on short masts. The usual fault is the coax where it passes over the gutter, which rubs, cracks and lets water in. A new run with a drip loop and proper clips solves it.
What we can fix in Ramsgate
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Ramsgate 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 Ramsgate satellite page.
What’s wrong with the picture in Ramsgate?
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.
Repair questions from Ramsgate
Local answers for Ramsgate. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Can you repair aerials on the tall houses by Ramsgate harbour?
Yes. We use longer ladders and roof ladders for the taller terraces, and a small tower where we need one. We will tell you before the visit if special access is needed.
Why is my picture worse in Pegwell than in town?
Pegwell is lower and closer to the bay, and trees and buildings can sit in the way of the Dover signal. A taller pole or a better aerial usually brings it up to strength.
Do you repair aerials for Ramsgate landlords?
Yes. We work for landlords and agents across Ramsgate and can arrange access with tenants directly.
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 photoWe also repair aerials around Ramsgate
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Ramsgate, see the Ramsgate area page or our Ramsgate 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