Monthly Archives: February 2014


New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | February 23, 2014

New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex www.andysaerials.com

 

Our 2nd call today is for a new aerial installation Chelmsford Essex and when we arrived we were delighted to see a lovely walk able roof on a bungalow.  There were 2 chimney stacks to choose from, one was straighter than the other as it looked perpendicular to me?  Although the property was a bungalow we did not wish to use 16ft 2” masts to achieve good signal strength, we don’t like to look of any property with such huge masts, and we always try to get a good base signal with an 8ft 1” ½ and if the signal is workable use the correct amplification.  As luck would have it when we took some signal readings with our test aerial we were happy with the results and proceeded to lash our customer’s chimney stack with one of our large heavy duty chimney cradles which will provide more than enough support for our log—periodic on an 8ft 1” ½ alloy masts.

New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | February 23, 2014

New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex www.andysaerials.com

At last a break in the rain and a blue sky shining down.  We had a new aerial installation Chelmsford Essex and we were both delighted to see the blue sky, although this new aerial installation was a little challenging as the roof was covered with solar panels, making access to the chimney stack difficult.  Before we made a plan on how to get to the chimney stack we made up a test aerials and took some signal readings so we knew if we could achieve good quality pictures for our customers.  We were happy with the readings from our test aerial and our spectrum analyser indicated a Fracarro Log-periodic would be perfect for the job with a little amplification, and as we were fitting 4 new TV points the amp was needed any-who.  We managed to set up our ladders at the front of the house, there was a small 2ft wide section of roof where the solar panels did not fix or cover the roof, we now had a route to our customer’s chimney stack.  We had to be incredible carful cutting the old aerial lashing wire, not only worrying about the cars parked beneath we had to avoid the glass of the roof solar panels.  We managed to cut the old aerial down and get it to the floor trouble free and now we could set about re-lashing our customer’s chimney stack and fitting the new aerial furniture required for the new aerial installation.

New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex Www.andysaerials.com

New Aerial Installation Chelmsford Essex www.andysaerials.com

As we see so many poor substandard new aerial installations where possible we like to use heavy duty fixings so we went to our van and fetched a large heavy duty 5 chimney brick course cradle to support our 8ft 1” ½ alloy mast.  We electronically aligned our aerial using our proven and trusted spectrum analyser and wanting to keep the new aerial installation neat and tidy we ran the aerial coax cable into our customer’s loft where we could fit the 4 way amp.  We quickly ran a new cable down to our customer’s sitting room and had their YouView box re-tuned and set-up in no time.  All we had to do was run 3 new cables to the bedrooms and re-tune the TV’s, which we did and we were both happy with the signal readings upon checking each TV point.  Our customer was as always over the moon and we started to clear up and dispose of the rubbish the new aerial installation generated.  We wrote our bill and head off to our next new aerial installation.

New TV Aerial Installation Essex www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | February 2, 2014

New TV Aerial Installation Essex www.andysaerials.com

New Tv Aerial Installation Essex Www.andysaerials.com

Saturday morning and were off to a new TV aerial installation in Essex, and yet again another large house with an incredibly difficult roof to gain access to.  After looking at all our options we decided to extend our triple ladders and rest them on the chimney stack giving us a better chance of getting around to the chimney.  My customer’s aerial had come down in the recent high winds and storms, it had not been fitted very well and the wrong equipment was used on the installation.  We decided to cut down one of our 12ft 2” alloy masts to 6 or 7ft as we did not need the height as the house was 3 stories, but wanted the extra support and strength of the 2” alloy mast. Using a large chimney cradle which uses 5 brick courses of the chimney stack, this will provide plenty of support for our new TV aerial install.  We took down our customer’s broken old aerial and re-lashed their chimney stack and fitted our large chimney cradle ready to receive the aerial.

New TV Aerial Installation Essex www.andysaerials.com

We fitted a Fracarro w/b log-periodic TV aerial to the 2” 6ft mast and neatly taped down the aerial coax cable, appearance is everything!  We took the aerial and spectrum analyser up again to the chimney and dropped the aerial mast into the brackets of the chimney cradle; we plugged the aerial into our spectrum and aligned our customer’s new TV aerial.  We were both happy with the readings of the spectrum analyser; a good strong signal equals happy customers.  With the aerial now up all we need to do was connect our signal to our customer’s house.  Once we had our signal in our customer’s loft we connected their cable and checked the TV point with our meter.  Happy with the signal we changed our customer’s coax plug and re-tuned their TV.

TV Aerial Repairs www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | February 2, 2014

TV Aerial Repairs www.andysaerials.com

Tv Aerial Repairs Www.andysaerials.com

TV Aerial Repairs www.andysaerials.com

It doesn’t look it in the attached picture but it was bitterly cold that morning, once your gloves are wet and it is cold we couldn’t feel our fingers!  Our customer had called us as their aerial was falling down and in need of putting up again. When we arrived I looked at the single chimney cradle supporting the mast with a TV aerial, FM aerial, D.A.B aerial and a satellite dish, no wonder it was falling over!  We decided to provide another large chimney cradle to strengthen the aerial mast and system, only problem was our customer’s large chimney stack as it was enormous!

New Aerial Shenfield Brentwood Essex www.andysaerials.com

Posted by in Blog | February 2, 2014

New Aerial Shenfield Brentwood Essex www.andysaerials.com

New Aerial Shenfield Brentwood Essex Www.andysaerials.com

At last a day without rain!  There are some jobs you’re always particularly proud of and this one is one of those.  When we arrived our customer’s chimney stack had been re-built as it and the aerial had been seriously damaged in the recent storms.  The builder had taken down the top half of the chimney stack and re-built it, when we arrived we decided to use to large chimney cradles and 2 lashing kits at the bottom of the chimney stack and not touch the newly built top.  With the large chimney cradles spread their self’s over 5 brick courses in total they took up 10 brick courses of the chimney stack providing excellent support  to the light weight Fracarro log-periodic new aerial.