Aerial Installer Shenfield Brentwood  www.andysaerials.com

Yet   another scorching day, and I can’t wait for Autum and winter to hear my people say “we didn’t have a summer again this year”, just know people will complain.  Our customer who we had worked for some years ago, wanted a new aerial for their Mum, so we were happy to install a new TV aerial for them, we took some test readings first as we were a little unsure of the signals but once we got our ladders off and climbed up the roof with our test aerial we were delighted with the signal readings, both strength and quality. We decided to use the log-periodic w/b aerial, (Facarro) and for guaranteed strength and support we used an 8ft 1” ½ alloy mast.  We lashed the chimney stack using a heavy duty chimney cradle which spans 5 brick courses spreading the load of the aerial and mast around the chimney, we did not need the height for signal so we did not have to lash at the very top of the chimney stack.

Aerial Installer Shenfield Brentwood www.andysaerials.com

Once we had the aerial electronically aligned we neatly tacked the aerial coax down the stack and looked for the inconspicuous route for the aerial cable to get down to the sitting room of the house.  We decided to run the aerial coax cable across the roof of the house, cutting up the remainder of the lashing wire so we could pin the aerial coax cable under the roof tiles, keeping it secure and on a straight line over towards the hip of the roof and finally down so it could not be seen from the front of the house.  We always make a monumental effort to keep our cables hidden, if you’re going to be an aerial installer be the best there is!

Aerial Installer Shenfield Brentwood www.andysaerials.com

We finally reached the ground floor and we neatly drilled a 10mm hole from the inside out to bring in our new TV coax cable to our customer’s TV, by this time we were absolutely cooked and couldn’t drink enough water which our customer very kindly supplied us with.  With the aerial coax cable now inside the house we fitted a white grommet to keep the entry point professional and fitted a coax plug to our aerial cable.  We re-tuned our customer’s TV and we love Panasonic TV’s as they give us marks out of ten and of course we scored 10/10 fantastic!  We packed our kit and ladder away and had a clear up ensuring there wasn’t any rubbish leaving the property as we found it rubbish free.  Next call Stanstead Bishop Stortford.