DSTV Installer for Allen Grove

Taking a dish off one wall and putting it on another sounds like a ten-minute job. It is not, because the new position has to have the same clear view of the satellite as the old one, and that is not a given once a carport, a room addition or a boundary wall has gone up.

We check the proposed new position with a meter before removing anything, so you find out whether it works while the old dish is still up. If the obvious spot will not do it, we look at the alternatives — a different wall, a higher bracket, a pole mount clear of the building — and tell you honestly what each one means for the cable route and the cost.

When a dish comes off a wall it leaves fixings behind. We remove the old bracket, plug the holes and take the redundant cable with us rather than leaving a loop stapled to the wall for the next owner to wonder about.

If the run has to change, we prefer a fresh length of cable to a join. Every join is a place where signal is lost and water can get in, and a cable that has already spent years in the sun is usually not worth re-using — the outer sheath goes brittle long before the picture tells you anything is wrong.

If work is still under way at your Allen Grove property, it is worth a call before the ceilings go up and the walls are plastered. Cable laid during building work disappears into the structure; cable added afterwards has to be surface-run, and surface-run cable is the sort that gets damaged later.

The same goes for extra TV points. Deciding now that the main bedroom and the lounge both want a decoder is far cheaper than deciding it after everything has been closed up and painted.