Rochester TV aerial repairs
From the historic High Street to Borstal and Warren Wood, we repair Rochester’s aerials quickly and carefully, with respect for the city’s older buildings.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Rochester most days.
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The faults we fix most in Rochester
Rochester’s High Street and the streets around the castle and cathedral are full of listed and historic buildings. Aerials here are often hidden in lofts or on rear chimneys, and repairs need to keep them that way. We repair like for like, using existing fixings, so no consent is needed.
Borstal and Warren Wood sit on the slopes above the Medway, with a clear view of Bluebell Hill. Faults there are usually caused by old cable, corroded connectors or a slipped aerial, all of which we can fix in a single visit.
Every kind of aerial repair in Rochester
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Rochester 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 Rochester satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Rochester
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 Rochester
Local answers for Rochester. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Can you repair an aerial on a listed building in Rochester?
Yes. Like-for-like repairs normally need no consent. We use the same position and fixings, and take care not to damage historic roofs.
Do you repair aerials in Borstal and Troy Town?
Yes. We cover every part of Rochester, including Borstal, Troy Town, Delce and Warren Wood.
My loft aerial in Rochester has stopped working. Can you fix it?
Yes. Loft aerials can be affected by new insulation, solar panels or foil-backed boards. We test it and move or replace it as needed.
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 Rochester
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Rochester, see the Rochester area page or our Rochester 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