TV aerial repairs in Swanley
Swanley has a good view of Crystal Palace, so most faults here are about the equipment, not the signal. We fix them across the town and villages, usually the same day.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Swanley most days.
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Common aerial faults around Swanley
Swanley is close enough to Crystal Palace that the signal is usually strong. When the picture fails, we often find an old amplifier that is now overloading a modern TV, or a connector that has corroded. Removing the amplifier or replacing the connector is often all it takes.
Many homes in Swanley and Hextable were built in the 1950s to 70s, with aerials on chimneys or short masts. After decades of weather, the brackets and lashings wear out. We check them as part of every repair.
From a loose plug to a new aerial in Swanley
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Swanley 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 Swanley satellite page.
Match your Swanley fault to a fix
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.
What Swanley customers ask about repairs
Local answers for Swanley. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why is my Swanley TV pixelating?
Often an old amplifier is overloading your TV. We measure the signal and remove or adjust the amplifier.
Do you repair aerials in Hextable and Crockenhill?
Yes. We cover Hextable, Crockenhill, Farningham and Swanley Village.
Can you come to Swanley today?
Usually yes. We cover north-west Kent most days.
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 photoNeighbouring towns to Swanley
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Swanley, see the Swanley area page or our Swanley 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