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Pay to fix a tv aerial put up only a few months ago?
Brucie Bonus
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Due to stormy conditions my friends newish tv aerial has loosened and hanging over the edge of the roof. The guys that had placed the new digital aerial only put it up two months ago. She phoned the same guys but they are busy at the moment. There has been no talk of how much it will cost but as it was storm damage my friend won't be covered. Should the workers have fixed the aerial better, so she shouldn't have to pay? My friend checked other aerials in the close and they remained fixed in position.
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That will be true. Hope they don't charge her the full price.
They will more than likely charge full fitting price.
Unfortunately some installers use wall brackets that are not strong enough for the mast and aerial. Brackets that are are designed to be screwed to the wall with four screws they just use two and fit aerials on poles that are not of sufficient diameter for the size of aerial. Some also screw aerials to wooden or plastic fascias rather than use a cranked pole and a wall fitting. If a chimney lashing has not been fixed correctly, that can cause failure too.
Added to all this many also used cheap nasty tinny contract aerials they buy in for a fiver and then charge a couple of hundred quid to do a botch job. There are decent aerial installers about but a hell of a lot of cowboys unfortunately and they are no doubt having a field day with replacing many aerials that in many cases do not want replacing.
In my opinion there is no way that aerial should have blown down unless it was a bodge install.
agree with all of the above , there was an aerial fitted a few doors up from me recently , it has been put on a 6 foot pole on the stack when there was no reason whatsoever to do it , it wobbles like mad if a spuggie dares land on it , and it was fitted to an old dears house as well , so when it goes wrong you can guess the rest :mad:
My friend told me that it cost £44 to put up the new aerial. The guy who fixed it said, if it does come down again it will be our responsibilty. So good, next time would be free of charge!! Hope there's not a next time!!
£44 to put an aerial up , that guy is seriously cheap , or fitting garbage that will fail quickly :eek:
Just one other thing, Digital aerials don't exist. It's a scam by the installers.
When Freeview's predecessor ( this was years ago and it was OnDigital ) and if you bought a receiver they gave you a new aerial if your old one wasn't suitable.
Anyway I got a new aerial fitted and paid for by OnDigital and six months later it blew down.
I contacted the aerial people but when they came back to put it up again they charged the installation fee as they said that strong winds weren't covered in their guarantee.
Well the winds weren't any stronger than they had been when I had the old aerial up for the last 20 years.
His company put up the aerial in the first place, so I think it would be very cheeky to get her to pay much more than she did!!