DSTV Installation in Lakefield, Benoni

The dish has to look east-north-east and fairly low in the sky, which is a demanding combination on a street where houses sit close together. A wall that faces the right way but looks straight into a double-storey next door is no good; a wall that seems wrong often turns out to be fine once you are above the boundary wall.

We walk the property before quoting and take a meter reading from each realistic position — a side wall, the back of the house, a gable end, sometimes a pole mount clear of the buildings. That takes a few extra minutes and it is the difference between an installation that works in the rain and one that only works on a clear day.

If a tree has moved into the path since your dish was installed, the picture usually degrades slowly rather than failing outright: fine in winter, breaking up through a wet summer, worse in the evenings. It is a common reason for a call-out that has nothing wrong with the equipment at all.

Moving the dish is normally the better answer than cutting back a tree, because the tree will grow again. We look for a position that clears the obstruction with room to spare, then re-run or extend the cable to suit rather than stretching what is already there.

Plenty of Lakefield jobs start as a repair and end as an extra room. If you want the lounge and a bedroom watching different channels, that is Extra View: a second decoder linked to your existing DStv account, each with its own cable back to a suitable LNB. We check whether your current LNB has a spare output before quoting, because swapping the LNB is far cheaper than replacing a dish.

Where the second point is in a flatlet, a converted garage or a room added at the back, the cable route matters more than the electronics. We keep the run short, get it into conduit where it crosses anything exposed, and test both points before we pack up.