New aerial installation Billericay with three 3 TV points www.andysaerials.com

Yet another customer of Sky who wanted to leave Sky and enjoy Free-View with the lovely word free!  Saving Sky’s monthly subscription.  My customer wanted a new aerial installation with 3 TV points which I quoted for on Monday the 14^th and as always gave a good price.

New aerial installation Billericay with three 3 TV points www.andysaerials.com

We started first call Thursday 17^th Jan a lovely roof with a flat extension which was lovely being right next to the chimney stack.  I lashed the chimney with a large chimney cradle and lashing kit and went with a Blake DMX10 ultra high gain aerial after taking readings with my test aerial.

New aerial installation Billericay with three 3 TV points www.andysaerials.com

I cabled down the 8ft 1” ½ alloy mast where I fitted a wollsey 4 way mast head pre-amp with a variable 10db gain which I had set to full.  The signal coming in off of the aerial was 36db on all 6 mux’s which was nice and equal, with the 10db kick from the 4way mast head each of the 3 TV points receiving 45db which runs a TV lovely.

New aerial installation Billericay with three 3 TV points www.andysaerials.com

Using brown coax cable we ran 2 TV points to the front of the house and ran a third to the sky dish and disconnected the dish and connected our aerial cable to it, ensuring the join had been completely waterproofed with amalgamating tape (latex) which was one less cable to run and as the customer had always had that cable going to her sitting room the appearance had not changed.  If we had run a new cable to the sitting room it would have stuck out like a sore thumb as the front of the house was rendered and the Sky cable had been painted with the render.

New aerial installation Billericay with three 3 TV points www.andysaerials.com

I checked the condition of the sky cable and it was high quality cooper, on copper on copper supple and no visible defects, cracked or split etc. nice and supple and went all the way into the sitting room where I removed the Sky box changed the connection from F’ plug to coax ready for my customer to either update to a new TV with free-view built in or simply buy a free-view receiver which they could connect to their existing TV

I set-up and tuned the Son’s TV in his room and the installation was complete.