TV aerial repairs in Tenterden
Tenterden is a long way from any main transmitter, and the Weald’s trees and hills don’t help. When channels go missing here, we find out why and put them back.
Established 2000. Repairs from £99. £5 million public liability insurance. Engineers in Tenterden most days.
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The faults we fix most in Tenterden
Most aerials in Tenterden are large, high-gain designs on tall poles, because the signal has travelled a long way to get here. That makes them heavier and more exposed than town aerials, and after a few winters the lashing wire stretches or the clamps loosen. The aerial drifts a few degrees off aim, and the weakest channels disappear first.
Along the wide High Street and in the weatherboarded houses around St Mildred’s church, the cable often runs through old timber and lath walls, where it has been chewed, crushed or nailed through over the years. If one room has lost its picture but another is fine, the fault is usually inside the house, not on the roof.
Every kind of aerial repair in Tenterden
We carry the common parts on the van, so most Tenterden 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 Tenterden satellite page.
Check the symptoms in Tenterden
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 Tenterden
Local answers for Tenterden. If yours isn’t here, ring and ask.
Why have I lost a few channels in Tenterden but not all?
Each group of channels uses a different frequency, and the weakest drop out first when the signal falls. Here, that usually means the aerial has slipped out of line or a connector has corroded. We measure each frequency and fix the cause.
Is a bigger aerial the answer in Tenterden?
Sometimes, but not always. Height and accurate aiming often matter more. We measure what you have before recommending anything new.
Do you cover Rolvenden, Woodchurch and High Halden?
Yes. We cover all the villages around Tenterden, including Smallhythe, Wittersham and Bethersden.
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 Tenterden
Each town has its own repair page. For everything else we do in Tenterden, see the Tenterden area page or our Tenterden 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