Aerial retuning cost?

shandypants5

If you have good results downstairs and not upstairs then it may be that the splitter has become disconnected, or the cable to the upstairs room is damaged.

Splitters are only any good if you have good signal strength from the aerial, so it may have been disconnected deliberately at some point to give a better pic downstairs.

Kurtis_Blue

Replacing an aerial is not a "few pounds" it requires new aerial, pole, brackets and lashing kit plus new coax to TV.
This is not achievable for £60.00

An aerial will not need "retuning" if it has become loose and is off target then something is amiss and realigning it will probably only be temporary.

shandypants5

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Replacing an aerial is not a "few pounds" it requires new aerial, pole, brackets and lashing kit plus new coax to TV.
This is not achievable for £60.00

An aerial will not need "retuning" if it has become loose and is off target then something is amiss and realigning it will probably only be temporary.

Or... it could be just a loose clamp or a damaged cable at 50p per meter.

Or maybe the chimney is falling into the roof requiring a major million ££ re-roofing job..

Like I said. an installer will tell you what he thinks and give you a price.
It may be cheap as chips it may be expensive but they will tell you before they do any expensive work.

I used to work with an installer and we charged £75 for a complete new install, including aerial and mouting pole/bracketry, 1 new run of coax through into the room of choice and a decorative wall socket.

And, we still made a profit.

Kurtis_Blue

You may have thought you were making a profit, but even using the cheapest nastiest equipment if you were running a business paying taxes, advertising, accountants, van, insurance etc.. and paying 2 men a proper wage, you were making a loss, a big loss.

There are lads round here with just a set of ladders doing that sort of work off the books that seem happy making 5 pounds a job in the rain on a roof, very strange, and I wouldn't want them any where near my property.

shandypants5

It was and still is a proper business and all vans are sign written and legal. Taxes and advertising all paid.

To be fair we were only charging for one man as usually we would only use one man.

The equipment we used was not cheap and nasty, but not top of the range either (although we would offer this at an extra cost )

I am not going to argue with you about the profit as I dont know where about in the country you are or your overheads, but please dont try to make out I was part of a flybynight bodgeit crew.

Proper job guaranteed and free recalls should there be a problem.