All posts by Tom
Below are all of Tom's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Hi andy loft aerials are no good for freeview it must be out side on the highest part of the house sometimes one freeview box mite work and the next one mite not ,a resonable price to pay is £90-£100 for a good quality aerial fit Tom Alpha Aerials sheffield.
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Fran sky runs from a dish not an aerial.
if your tv has a built in freesat you can use a sky dish if it has a freeview built in it you will need an aerial or you will need a freeview set top box that runs of an aerial as well . Tom Alpha Aerials sheffield
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Ian
when ever I have had venture down t south I cant believe the price of things and if you say that is a fair price for an aerial fit £170 in the south east that's o/k I can see from this site that prices do vary a lot up and down the country . the guy asking the price lived in Leeds similar cost of living to sheffield.
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Tom alpha aerials sheffield
its not all roses up here mate. I watch some of these rouge traders programs like that red bull w'''''r there is plenty of money to be made in the trade with out doing things like that .if you did things like that here you would be very sorry to say the leest people are more honest here ruff but honest we get a lot of 0800 out of town firms but they dont last long is there not laws about saying one price and charging more on site? more the mugs for paying them .senareo, phone rings hi mate how much do you charge for your aerials? I say £45 turn up to house and say £300 action run of the estate dog on your arse van stript left on bricks' no im kidding its not that bad Tom .
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Ian
I dont understand some people. I think its easier to do a good job than to bodge things / its nice to take money off a customer knowing you have done a good job, and you will always get recommendations most of our work is from that.we had a call from an old lady a few weeks ago in sheffield she said her picture was bad and no freeview at all the address she gave was a good reception area on
emleymoore full power before we got to the house we could see a 20 foot pole and a
massive blakes jbx aerial flapping about in the wind when i went in to the house there was a set back amp on the floor one of them white y splitters with a cable going up stairs to the bedroom i said to the lady who and how much did they charge for this " £255 . she said;;; and theres more when i went up stairs there was a nuther mast amp at the back of the tv' and out side under the gutter was an old fringe splitter box with the insides removed and a big tape joint shuved inside it on the wall was the exissting old brown cable and she had lived in the house for 40 years! we took it all down and put a 36 log 6 foot pole and new cable and coax drilled the wall not window frame set up the freeview box 101 channals the old said will i
get that gay rabbit thing now? cost £85 oap discount''
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cass.
some flats have strange fittings in the aerial systems but it should be a male coax push in fly lead that fits into it . or it mite have been broken at some time. go to B&Q and get one of those
universal packs of coax and cables there should be something in it that fits.
Tom Fletcher Alpha Aerials Sheffield.
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Dave
your life story sounds like mine I am in my late 50s and did the all the things you said working for a local sheffield firm wigfalls vhf -uhf black&white TVs BRW colour TVs. videos remember PYE 205s BRC 3500 PHILIPS g8s Decca bradfords on and on?
going self employed opening my fist shop selling ex rental TVs. we had a guy working for us fitting aerials full time but always was a side line to the TV job. we sort of drifted in to the aerial trade as big names came in selling cheap TVs giving credit to any one that walk in the place the aerial trade took of from that and the rest is history as they say. we worked for sky as subbs for a few years made a bit of money out of them but it was hard work' at the moment we seem to be making a living out of the aerial trade and that is what matters in this day and age. I dont know what is around the corner or the next thing after the digital rush is over we will have to go on more courses I bet. Tom Fletcher Alpha Aerials Sheffield
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Ian
Im not a fan of the CAI I think they are getting to big for there boots. been on some of there courses no comment''they mite ring me up and have a pop at me I think we need some kind of regulation to a degree may be like plumbers or electricians have a card sort of government run thing it mite cost a bit though. Tom Fletcher Alpha Aerials Sheffield.
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Hi Ian
I think the CAI card is like that.
dont like to say to much about the CIA as you always get some flak from some one in the trade who thinks they are the b all and end all of the trade .just dont like the way they do
business done some contract work for a few big firms here 20,mil insurance health and safety gone mad 3 months before you get money of them holding back 5% of your money stuff that I would sooner work for percy public any time OAPs heare are not daft and its always me that seems to get doneover I think Im to soft' Tom Fletcher Alpha Aerials Sheffield.
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Saturday 1 January 2011 7:43PM
Tom Alpha aerials sheffied.
I work in sheffield and know the place so well road by road when a customer rings for a price i know what they need and how much it will cost them customers ring around a few if they come back to me then i will go and have a look at the job and see what kind job they want doing very few ask for writen quotes.