New Aerial Installation?
Discussion
Ever since we moved into our current place we’ve had TV issues, the aerial on the chimney is clearly no good/pointing in the wrong direction but it’s not been a huge issue as we have Virgin cable in the living room.
Two issues now:
1) Virgin are taking the piss with their price rises and we want rid but have no standard Freeview services to fall back on
2)We’ve installed another TV in the kitchen which only gets sporadic service which is very annoying
We had a local company around to quote repair and it’s £420 (inc VAT) and this seems like an awful lot!
Am I being tight here or is this just how much these things cost?
Two issues now:
1) Virgin are taking the piss with their price rises and we want rid but have no standard Freeview services to fall back on
2)We’ve installed another TV in the kitchen which only gets sporadic service which is very annoying
We had a local company around to quote repair and it’s £420 (inc VAT) and this seems like an awful lot!
Am I being tight here or is this just how much these things cost?
Depends how difficult it is to get up to your chimney and how long/complicated the cable runs are.
It is false economy to replace the antenna without renewing the cabling.
Hardware cost should be about £100 for most installations, maybe a touch more if you want a decent distribution amp to send the signal to multiple TVs.
A lot of cowboys claim you need a 'special' antenna for the 'new-fangled digital transmitters' or for some other obscure reason.
What's the parts/labour split?
It is false economy to replace the antenna without renewing the cabling.
Hardware cost should be about £100 for most installations, maybe a touch more if you want a decent distribution amp to send the signal to multiple TVs.
A lot of cowboys claim you need a 'special' antenna for the 'new-fangled digital transmitters' or for some other obscure reason.
What's the parts/labour split?
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