Repairing TV aerials in Sandwich
Sandwich is close to Dover, so a good picture should be easy. When it isn’t, there is usually a tired cable, a rusted fixing or a storm-turned aerial to blame, and we can fix it the same day.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Sandwich most days.
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Why aerials fail in Sandwich
Inside the old town, many aerials are hidden on the rear slope of steep clay-tiled roofs, and the cable often runs through the roof void of two or three neighbouring houses. That makes faults hard to trace. We test at each joint along the run, so we only lift tiles where we have to and leave the historic roof as we found it.
Out on Sandwich Bay and along the road to Worth, the land is flat, open and close to the sea. Aerials there face constant wind and salt. We see bent elements, split mast brackets and corroded balun boxes more than anywhere else in the district, and we fit marine-grade fixings when we replace them.
Repairs we carry out in Sandwich
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Sandwich 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 Sandwich satellite page.
Diagnose your Sandwich 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.
Sandwich aerial repair questions
Local answers for Sandwich. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
My Sandwich Bay aerial keeps getting blown out of line. What can be done?
Fit a heavier pole, a second lashing and anti-rotation clamps. On exposed homes we also choose a more compact aerial, which catches less wind and holds its aim better.
Will repairing my aerial in the Sandwich conservation area need permission?
Not for repairs that keep the same size and position. Replacing like for like is normal maintenance. Moving it somewhere more visible is different, and we will tell you if that applies.
Do you cover Eastry and Ash for aerial repairs?
Yes, along with Woodnesborough, Worth and Staple. They are on our way between Canterbury and Deal.
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 Sandwich
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Sandwich, see the Sandwich area page or our Sandwich 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