TV Aerial Brentwood

Posted by in Blog | August 17, 2013

TV Aerial Brentwood

Tv Aerial Brentwood Www.andysaerials.com

Quality Workmanship At Sensible Prices

Saturday and it’s the end of a fabulous week and it’s the last job of the day.  I had visited my customer on Thursday and looked at replacing their TV aerial and gave a price and booked it in for Saturday as I couldn’t do it before.  When we arrived I expected to site the new TV aerial on the rear stack of the building as I had disused with my customers, however when I got my ladders off of the van and climbed up on the roof to the chimney stack I found the neighbour’s chimney cradle had been lashed through my customer’s chimney bracket, which meant I couldn’t cut down my customer’s bracket.  I tried my chimney cradle on the rear corner of the chimney stack but I was far from happy how I was seated over the neighbour’s lashing wire.  The only alternative was the humungast chimney stack at the top of the roof, which we decide to try.  With it still being summer it was lovely and dry and enabled us to try and lash the huge front stack, the roof tiles were slate and would have been incredibly difficult if they were wet or icy.  We joined two lashing kits together and climbed up the other roof towards the front chimney stack, and started lashing the stack, we managed to get the lashing wire around the large chimney stack and even managed to the all chimney corners on comfortably, but once we had attached the lashing wire to the J bolt tightening the lashing wire was awkward, as I tightened the J bolts tightening the lashing wire was challenging keeping a good footing on the slate roof.  I managed to tighten the lashing wire until I was happy and using the new chimney cradle to assist my climb back up to the roof it snapped in half.  In nearly 20yrs of rigging and installing new TV aerials I have never experienced a chimney cradle breaking.

TV Aerial Brentwood

With the height of the roof and area of Brentwood being good for signal I decided for my customer’s new aerial to use a w/b log-periodic on a 6ft ¾ alloy mast, I did not want to use a 1” ½ alloy mast as I could only use an 8” chimney cradle as the chimney stack had a nice fluted layer of brickwork which prevented me from using a large chimney bracket, I could on use the 2nd brick course beneath the fluted brickwork, a large chimney cradle would have used the 3rd and that course was underneath the apex of the roof, so the 8” was perfect.  We placed the new TV aerial into the U bolts of the chimney cradle and connected the spectrum analyser to align the new TV aerial and look at the signal, which was perfect all six digital mux’s 55db and no noise or spikes.  We tacked the TV aerial coax down the chimney stack and ran it down the roof to the front drainpipe, where we cable tied the coax cable to hide it.  Once on the floor I drilled a 10mm hole for the aerial coax cable to enter and ensured it had a rain loop so the water ran away from our entry hole.  Once inside I fitted the coax plug and fitted it to my customer’s PVR and re-tuned it to ensure all their channels were there, my customers were over the moon with their pictures, they hadn’t been able to receive the HD channels before and they were delighted to have them.  I wrote my bill packed away and headed home for a glass of wine and dinner.

Tv Aerial   Brentwood Www.andysaerials.com

Quality Workmanship At Sensible Prices

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