Tv aerial after leaving Virgin.

AndyPK

Vm installers get paid per job.

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AndyPK wrote: »

Vm installers get paid per job.

I think you'll find they are simply under pressure to complete each job as quickly as possible.

AndyPK

They told me they did a year ago when mine was installed.

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AndyPK wrote: »

They told me they did a year ago when mine was installed.

It's irrelevant anyhow.
If they were paid by the job they'd be just as much under pressure to cut corners so that they can go to the next job.

AndyPK

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

It's irrelevant anyhow.
If they were paid by the job they'd be just as much under pressure to cut corners so that they can go to the next job.

Exactly. Get the job done and onto the next house quick.
Working till 6pm to get a decent wage.

AllSpent

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

I've seen Virgin (and Sky) use the entry point of aerials to save having to drill another hole.

This is what lead me to believe VM may have moved a cable out of the way.

Anyway. I had removed the white plastic box already, and found nothing. I decided to have another go, and also remove the metal socket sunk into the plasterboard, just in case it was lurking behind there. Nothing.

I am beginning to suspect that due to the listed building status (a phrase that has started to grate) there is no installed antenna/cabling into the building. I am waiting for the management agents to confirm this; but I think I know the answer. In essence, the only tv services I can receive are...you guessed it: Virgin Media. I guess I'll have to scrap the freeview box idea and be consigned to a bare minimum VM tv package.

It grates a little because I feel the developers (and possibly VM) have conveniently used this regulation to make theirs the only viable service.

That is not a fact, of course, and could well be libellous, but I can't help feel it's also true. Surely a tv antenna wasn't out of the question when they remodelled/knocked these flats up?

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AllSpent wrote: »

I guess I'll have to scrap the freeview box idea and be consigned to a bare minimum VM tv package.

I doubt the only service you'll be able to receive is Virgin. I do expect you may have to pay someone, though, to install a connection to a roof aerial-probably using the existing ducting which is currently occupied by Virgin cable. It's normally only Sky dishes which aren't able to be fitted to (some) listed buildings.

See my link at post#6 of this thread...

anotheruser

Virgin or Sky did this to my house.

An ariel was still on the roof but the wire had been cut outside at the back of the house. However it was still in situ running the length of the house into the wall at the front where behind a Virgin Media box it had been tucked around, which supports what Moneyineptitude said as I am sure there was only one hole.

There was also wire from the Sky dish to a normal ariel socket and another from the front bedroom to the outside Virgin Media cable box.

So to start with I cut the Sky dish cable and connected that end to the old ariel cable. Where I joined those together, I ran another cable to the outside Virgin Media box, connected it to the cable for the bedroom.

I took off the Virgin Media box and converted it to a normal ariel socket. Now I have TV in the bedroom and living room, with lots of spare Sky cable if I want to patch it out anywhere else in the house.



If you connect the VM cable to a standard ariel socket, then the engineer would only have to connect the other side of it to an ariel, perhaps.

AllSpent

Update:

There are no digital antennae anywhere on the building. It seems the only provision here is for cable (Virgin Media). There is little chance of having one installed, I am told, as the building carries 'Listed Building II' status (the lesser of the two I believe).

Now. I am not entirely sure on the likelihood of approval for listed building consent, but would it be worth raising the issue with the local council anyway?

It seems wrong that the only 'choice' is with VM.

penrhyn

Possibly because there is no such thing as a digital aerial.