DSTV Installer for Glen Erasmia

On a larger plot, the best view towards the satellite is often not from the main roof. A shed, a garage, an outbuilding or a properly set pole in the open can all give a cleaner reading, and the extra cable is usually a smaller price than a compromised signal.

We measure the candidates rather than picking one by eye, and we take the long view on obstructions: what a row of trees along the boundary will look like in a few summers matters more on a plot with space for them to grow into.

Once the dish is away from the house, the cable becomes the job. Signal weakens over distance, so a long run has to be planned — the right cable, as few joins as possible, and equipment chosen with the length in mind rather than hoped over.

Then it has to survive. Runs go in conduit or underground where vehicles, gardening, livestock or dogs could reach them, and they are fixed along their whole length rather than left slack. A cable lying loose across a yard is a cable that will be caught by something eventually.

Holdings often have more than one building that wants a screen — a cottage, a flatlet, a workshop or a staff room. Sometimes the right answer is Extra View on your existing account; sometimes it is a separate decoder on its own account, particularly where the second dwelling is occupied independently.

We will explain the difference plainly and let you choose, and we will plan the cabling for everything you eventually want rather than just what you want today. Adding a second run while the first is being laid is far cheaper than opening the same trench twice.