TV aerial repairs in Snodland
Snodland lies in the Medway gap with Bluebell Hill looking down on it. The signal is strong here, so when the picture fails, we look at the kit first.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Snodland most days.
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The faults we fix most in Snodland
The homes at Holborough Lakes were built on the old cement works site with aerials in the loft or on a short mast, and loft amplifiers feeding several rooms. A common fault is an amplifier turned up too far, which floods the TVs with signal. Turning it down, or taking it out altogether, is often enough.
In the older streets around the High Street and down towards the river, the chalk hills across the valley can reflect the signal, and some aerials pick up a ghost of it a fraction of a second late. Modern TVs cope with most of that, but a poorly aimed aerial can still struggle. Re-aiming with a meter cleans it up.
Every kind of aerial repair in Snodland
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Snodland 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 Snodland satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Snodland
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 Snodland
Local answers for Snodland. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
My Holborough Lakes TV is pixelating. Is the aerial broken?
Probably not. The loft amplifier may be set too high for how close Bluebell Hill is. We measure the levels and adjust or remove it.
Do you repair aerials in Halling and Upper Halling?
Yes. Halling, Upper Halling, Ham Hill and Lunsford are all part of our Snodland visits.
Can you come to Snodland today?
Usually yes. The Medway valley is on our regular route.
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 Snodland
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Snodland, see the Snodland area page or our Snodland 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