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Aardvark Installations Ltd
Добавлен 3 апр 2011
Although my day to day work is mainly TV aerial installs or everything related to that, a lot of the time I’m doing other work like simply retuning a TV or fitting an extra power socket or security light. Sometimes I’m repairing guttering, erecting a garden fence, or jet washing a driveway other times I’m fitting Plylining to a work van or refurbishing a garage. Therefore I’ve decided for 2025 going forwards to document more variety in my videos as quite simply, there isn’t enough variation in just TV aerial install videos. So I hope to engage with more people as I show the various things I do my way and probably get laughed at in the process. 😆
I'm back to one of my dearest customers. A sweet lady who is going through a tough time right now.
I'm back to one of my dearest customers. A sweet lady who is going through a tough time right now.
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Customer had no TV aerial at all, but not for long.
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I fit an aerial and eat some Haribo, wonderful.
A BRIEF UPDATE AND WHATS HAPPENING ON THE CHANNEL IN 2025
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Hi guys, here's a brief update as to what's changing for 2025. More varied content, vlogs, less chat and more footage!
Installing a Tv aerial on a static caravan on a holiday park
Просмотров 8352 месяца назад
I install a TV aerial on a static caravan using 2 different amplifiers. Short video as it was a wet cold soggy Monday.
New TV aerial mounted on a chimney
Просмотров 5393 месяца назад
I fit a new TV aerial to a chimney using a chimney bracket.
test of intro and ending for youtube
Просмотров 1093 месяца назад
Just a test guys sorry. having problems uploading to RUclips so I'm just testing this out with my intro and ending screens. But big news, I'M BAAAAAACK! Videos 100% coming soon, watch this space...
An update on things at Aardvark Installations Ltd 2024
Просмотров 3148 месяцев назад
It's been a while since my last video so I thought I would give you an update on whats been going on and whats changing at Aardvark Installations Ltd
Replacing a fallen aerial and dealing with an ungrateful customer
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Here I replace a TV aerial on a chimney that has been broken in the strong winds. I also have a bit of a rant about dealing with those customers who ask you to do something then moan about paying you, even when they agreed to the price beforehand!
External power socket, aerial install & chasing my tail.
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External power socket, aerial install & chasing my tail.
HIK-VISION CCTV CAMERAS & A WIRELESS BRIDGE INSTALL
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HIK-VISION CCTV CAMERAS & A WIRELESS BRIDGE INSTALL
The Aardvark Installations Diary. Aerial upgrade & a question to my subscribers
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The Aardvark Installations Diary. Aerial upgrade & a question to my subscribers
BIRD DETERRENT SPIKES ON A TV AERIAL & WALL MOUNTING A TV
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BIRD DETERRENT SPIKES ON A TV AERIAL & WALL MOUNTING A TV
WiFi problems solved by HARD WIRING.
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WiFi problems solved by HARD WIRING.
TV AERIALS, BOOSTERS & SOCKETS. Aardvark Installations Diaries 2023
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TV AERIALS, BOOSTERS & SOCKETS. Aardvark Installations Diaries 2023
MINI LOG PERIODIC TV AERIAL. What are they? When would you use one?
Просмотров 7 тыс.2 года назад
MINI LOG PERIODIC TV AERIAL. What are they? When would you use one?
TV Aerial mounted in the loft and connected to a distribution amplifier
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TV Aerial mounted in the loft and connected to a distribution amplifier
CCTV NOT RECORDING. FAULTY HARD DRIVE. I repair and replace and show you how.
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CCTV NOT RECORDING. FAULTY HARD DRIVE. I repair and replace and show you how.
SHOCKING TV AERIAL INSTALL! How not to do it.
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SHOCKING TV AERIAL INSTALL! How not to do it.
Another 2 TV's wall mounted with power & HDMI cables hidden
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Another 2 TV's wall mounted with power & HDMI cables hidden
WALL MOUNTING A TV & ADDING A POWER OUTLET. ALL CABLES HIDDEN IN WALL OUT OF SIGHT. SHORT VIDEO
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WALL MOUNTING A TV & ADDING A POWER OUTLET. ALL CABLES HIDDEN IN WALL OUT OF SIGHT. SHORT VIDEO
TV aerial upgrades & chasing my tail!
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TV aerial upgrades & chasing my tail!
VANDAL PROOF CCTV CAMERAS & SECURITY LIGHTS
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VANDAL PROOF CCTV CAMERAS & SECURITY LIGHTS
Wall mounting a 55" TV with all cables hidden
Просмотров 5532 года назад
Wall mounting a 55" TV with all cables hidden
TV aerial install, Toughbuilt tool belt and man b**bs
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TV aerial install, Toughbuilt tool belt and man b bs
Wall mounting a 32" TV on a swing arm bracket & hiding cables
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Wall mounting a 32" TV on a swing arm bracket & hiding cables
Nice job mounting the TVs 👍🏻. You can get an Ethernet adapter for the fire stick. I’d use a TP Link powerline adapter and connect it to the stick. Suppose you’ll come up with a solution. Always great videos 👍🏻
Yea she’s booked in for the new year to have a proper WiFi access point fitted. Those power line adapters are very temperamental. It will give her decent WiFi coverage into the other side of house. Thank you for watching. It was very much a “just get the TVs up” situation, I like to hide cables and power leads if I can but it wasn’t necessary on this one
Which signal booster did you use? Always decent videos.
I used 2 mate. A Blake masthead pre amp and a Wolsey distribution amp
I like watching this kind of content. Always curious as to why you often install the aerials in the loft/attic? I’d be getting it mounted outside to get a better signal. Double amplifier is bound to cause some issues at some point.
It may well do yes, but not every time. It’s a case of balancing what the client wants and making a living, and not doing a bad job. It wasn’t an option for outside so this was it really. If the installer understands noise levels and what they should be then it shouldn’t be an issue unless a piece of equipment fails. But that could be said for any technical electrical, plumbing, WiFi networking or any system with lots of elements in the equation
I like seeing aerials being installed. Along with satellite dishes, radio aerials and fault finding. Very interesting.
I love all the aerials. Aerials and satellites are my thing. I know it's not for everyone I suppose, but I could watch aerials all day. Merry Christmas to you. 🙂📺📻
Appreciate that mate, and it’s my thing too. I just really want to grow the numbers so showing more stuff should appeal to more.
Likewise here too. Merry Christmas to you and yours 👍
I recently took a really old rusty aerial down for a customer that had fallen off and broke a tile. Then the guy calls me later that night complaining saying his TV doesn't work!
I just ran across your video and I like how you installed this antenna. My only concern is that you did not install a 75 ohm terminator cap on the unused output port 3 on the distribution amplifier. Most vendors I have seen recommend installing 75 ohm terminators on all unused ports to allow the amplifier distributor to work properly and prevent any signal issues from creeping in. In my home, I have installed an 8 port amp, but at the moment I'm only using 4 of the ports. I called the Distribution Amp manufacturer and asked them about terminating the unused ports, that the emphatically suggested that I install 75 ohm terminator caps on all unused ports, so I bought some and installed them and all is working just fine.
Hi there. Although it might be recommended, it’s absolutely not essential. In my 24 years of doing this it’s never been an issue. I was never taught or advised to do so by the two companies I worked for prior to starting on my own either. I think it’s just a bit OTT really.
@aardvarkinstalls I hear you! The reason manufacturers suggest you terminate all unused cable runs with a 75 ohm Terminator resistor is very simple. Signals are constantly being fed down The wire from the antenna through your splitter or amplifiers all the way into the distribution cables. If you don't have a Terminator resistor on the ends of those cables or unused ports on an amplifier, basically those devices begin to act as antennas picking up any extraneous signals in the area such as microwave ovens, other radio waves or TV or cell tower broadcasts and since the waves that are coming down the wire have nowhere to go they reflect back up into your source and can actually contaminate the audio and video signals that you're projecting to all of your other devices. I agree in the past this was never really taught or emphasized but if you look at it from the logic I just described, it makes perfect sense and might actually provide a cleaner less pixelated image to all of the remaining TVs that are actually connected to your antenna or cable TV system. Generally I never argue with the manufacturers of the devices as they have spent millions of dollars testing to ensure good results for consumers. I might suggest that you call the distribution amplifier companies of the products you're using and get their response. Who knows, it might even allow you to provide you in a more perfect antenna system for your customers.
@ it’s a good point and thank you for bringing it up. Like I say in my bio, I’m not perfect and by no means the best in the business but I’m always open to suggestions and this is a good one. I think I’ll get some in stock and use when needed. Thanks
Blimey, how old would that thing be?
Not that old to be fair, prob 6 years?
That must have suffered water ingress from day one.
Thanks for this. I love my tech but I've zero knowledge how on dtv. We moved into a new house and there's sat cables in every room. In the loft I found a couple of antennas but trying to tune anything got me nowhere. I pondered there has to be a booster or something. I found a moisture remover in the loft but the fuse was removed/popped out from the spur, it has a couple of feeds coming out of it, I bet that fuse feeds the boosters. I shall go check later. I don't personally possess a signal tester, only ever had one to align a satellite, I take it these don't do the same job? The antennas are already fixed in, so they must have worked originally? .. it'll go investigate later today. Thanks
Sorry for the really late reply. How did you get on?
@aardvarkinstalls got nowhere. I can't figure out how they got it working. I only tried a little, we've other means of TV but I figured I'd get it working if it's available. In the attic I found two antennas. I traced cables and found one had detached. The other was manually twisted split to two way. No boosters. No power to nothing. I pondered did they have a booster at the source? I searched all frequencies. And radio, absolutely nothing. If you walked in and inspected, what would you suggest you're faced with? At the TV it was what id call a sat cable, female, screw on attachment. Screwed into it was a coaxial converter. The TV that was in the kitchen, pre installed never got a signal either. It's a puzzle.
@ where in the world are you?
@@aardvarkinstalls uk
@ well if you were near me I’d come look at it. Or you can make me a video of it and I’ll see if I can help? Feel free to contact me through my website with location details
Didnt see nothing
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Slightly off the content of this video but as a contractor myself I often come across customers with ‘not so friendly dogs’, I’ve been bitten a few times, have you ever had that experience? Do you ask them to put the dog away?
I’ve been nipped once and I told the customer exactly what I thought of them. To be fair most customers ask if I’m ok with dogs, and I say if they are ok with me then I am with them. If they are constantly barking I just say I’m sorry I can’t do this with them barking can they put it away. I think it’s down to the dogs preference though, maybe dogs just don’t like you? Most dogs love me and I’m often rolling around snuffling with the customers spaniel on their sitting room floor instead of working 😂
Tidy installation but why didn’t you put the masthead amp up on the hockey stick?
Very good reason, the cables to the rooms don’t meet at the “hockey stick”. No point putting it there when the cables have to be joined again underneath.
Great to see you recording more content. Back in late 1990s I had a static caravan in Whitby and really struggled with half decent tv reception with only 4 channels from the Whitby relay. I managed to feed a wire through external mesh air outlet and installed sky zone 1 dish to balcony with spare sky box for Freesat which worked really well and within months others had installed similar system. The problem I found was that aerial sockets in the static was poor quality as was the cable which I also replaced. At that time atmospheric conditions often meant that foreign signals swamped the Whitby transmitter which was fun to see signals as far away as Norway and Sweden - no sound as they used different sound carriers but intriguing nonetheless - keep up the good work 😊.
The holiday park I go to in Weymouth has a communal aerial serving all the vans on site instead of every van having it's own aerial.
Yes the sister park of this one does literally over the road, but this sit was never wired up for it
Judging by those traffic queues, you were glad to be heading away from the Air Balloon rather than towards it!
Another great and enjoyable video. Would this site not be better with satellite if the signal is so bad? Or is satellite not allowed there?
It’s allowed but it’s costly and temperamental isn’t it. Especially to multiple points, and remember it has to be holiday user friendly.
Glad your busy and posting again.
looks like the standard aerial i tend to fit a fracarro log periodic, ive never used the ratchet lashing kit though ive only used the normal ones but if its ok i might give it a try if you would recommend it ?
Good to see you back. I'm looking forward to seeing more aerials going up! 🙂📺
He’s not just paying your parts and labour, he’s also paying for your 25 years of knowledge enabling you to correctly identify the problem and repair it quickly. I thought you were going to say he used the lunch excuse so he could fix it himself (which has happened to me before 😡)
cctv install would be good to see
Welcome back 😊
Glad to see you back
Dumb question who would i call to fix my fallen ariel is it a roofer or handyman and what price am i looking at?
Neither. A roofer won’t know anything about serials or alignment, and a handyman wouldn’t either. You want to call a TV aerial installer that will have the necessary instances to be up on roofs and also the knowledge and equipment to correctly align or replace the aerial if needed. Cost will vary hugely on the condition of the fallen aerial. Anything from £60 upwards I would’ve thought ? Where are you?
Me too, looking forward to some more content, keep those aerials going bud
I'm looking forward to seeing more of those aerials going up. 🙂📺
Can't wait for new content, it's been a while.
Hello Sir, thanks for getting in touch and more importantly thank you for the encouragement. To be honest I'm not going to make too many excuses, I just got a bit bogged down with trying to think of new content all the time that i ended up neglecting it a bit. Then my camera system broke, my van broke, I broke (COVID) and before I knew it it was summer with holidays and kids to play with and entertain, so all I was doing was knuckling down getting the money in and no thought for getting things sorted for the channel. But here we are now in September, new camera, new van, I'm well again and kids back at school, so here we go! I do post to RUclips shorts and my Facebook page almost daily now but these videos will be coming back very soon. Cheers pal.
Drowned.
Interestingly, if your aerial is vertically polarised as mine is for a relay station, the aerial does the same job as the spikes!
Absolutely mate. Rarely have anything polarised like that where I work. How’s you buddy anyway? Apologies for the lack of new videos. Will be looking to get more videos consisting of smaller snippets of jobs. I think it will be more interesting than 15 minutes on one job to have my doing multiple jobs and little clips of what I get up to, thoughts?
I am replacing my current crop of TV aerials with these stealth log periodics. On the same mast, how far apart should two of these be please? Cheers.
I’ve never had a problem with them being about 30cm apart, polarised horizontally obviously
@@aardvarkinstalls Cheers for that. You are a gent, Sir!!
Really helpful video, thank you.
You're welcome!
Nice to see you're branching out. I find jetwashing the patio so theraputic!
I put bird spikes on my antenna and it has helped to keep the birds off. It seems to have slightly boosted my reception also. Channels that used to pixelate are coming in clear.
Whatever you do, don't get an electric van.
No chance!! I’d get about 10 miles per charge the weight I carry. New van coming tomorrow 😁😁
What??????😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I am going to try this. The birds are making a mess.
Lordy those types of plates have not been common in the states since the early 90’s 😬 Shielded balanced splitters took root from the mid 90’s on and plates were only ever used as a single connection point instead of a daisy chain device. Even then some creative techs used the same theory to daisy chain “tapped” splitters. We were animals in the day 😅
Aerial Facing the wrong way, Deflectors Wrong Way, Blocking a window they would now struggle to open - Lazy Scammers. Always best to use lack cable outdoors, its made up of diff properties and therefore does not split. So joing black on to white again lazy. Its like he has connected it to an existing sky cable who do now use white at times, Looks like there is an existing pole and aerial on the side apex. Just run a fresh wire directly, Just complete Lazyness. Not nice to see people getting ripped off, At least youve sorted it now
Great videos. Just found you today and watched all your tv hanging jobs. Your really good at the footage and enjoyed watching them. I'm a heating Engineer so very different to my job. Some help if you don't mind. Moving home in August and wanting to create a cinema like room. 75inch plus tv, maybe up to 98inch. Not decided yet. Took your advice about the brackets you use too. We have a ps5 and a fire stick to work and use on our tvs. Never knew about hdmi points so that was very helpful. Any advice regarding ps5 etc. Maybe hdmi point into a cupboard to hide it? Also need a router. Will look more into hdmi points but great tip. Thanks for sharing and taking time to film. Appreciate it. Liked and subscribed. Thanks
Hiya, how much do you usually charge for something like this? Thanks
Pleased to see you back hopefully aerial work picks up love your new adventures looking forward to more videos on the channel 👏😎
Sorry for your bad luck. Wishing you the best of luck for the future. I love all the aerial stuff so will keep a look out for those videos.
Thank you mate. It’s all sent to try us! 🙂
Looks neat, Where did you get the HDMI Sockets from ?
My suppliers but they are trade only. Think they are available on Amazon I would’ve thought, they are not particularly rare or exclusive
Can I ask your advice what the best areial do you recommend for outside installations in poor signal area.
What wall mount did you use?
I believe it was a wall mount by Ventry or B-Tech I couldn’t tell you which one though as I cant remember and I don’t really use that brand anymore sorry Thanks for watching though More content starting as of this week
2:16 it’s a Televes Infinito UHF 21-69 aerial. Ive seen a lot of them around. Also I noticed they are mounted on heavy steel poles! I believe they were installed in the 00s and until the digital switch over in 2012.
That’s correct mate. If I was to just call it that, people unfamiliar with this stuff wouldn’t have a clue what I was talking about so an ultra high gain wide band aerial was easier, as that’s what it is 👍
Could do with more people like you to be honest. Some people are a proper cowboy.
Thank you mate, appreciate that. Thank you for watching & subscribing. New content coming soon
Weirdly I really enjoyed this video😊. Thanks for the guide, I'll be using this to put up a weather station on my chimney with that ratcheting bracket. Thank god I dont have to drill into the chimney
Glad you enjoyed it mate. And thanks for commenting. It all helps the channel grow 👍
Looks good but how did you do it?
Yeah fair point, i didnt show much of exactly what I'm doing there. It was one of my early videos where I'm still getting used to what to show when filming. You have my word, I will do another video soon with a lot more "how to" in it. Thanks for watching though.