Cable and TV points: where aerials fail in Maspujols
Maspujols is a small, compact village a stone’s throw from Reus and Riudoms. The television signal usually reaches the roof without much trouble, so when a set plays up the fault is nearly always inside the house. It is the least visible part of a TV aerial installation and the part that causes most grief as the years go by.
What we regularly find in village houses:
- Joints made with insulating tape behind a cupboard or above a false ceiling.
- Splitters chained one after another: one for the kitchen, one for the bedroom, one for the loft room, each taking its share of signal.
- Old, thin cable with a damaged braid that lets interference straight in.
- Loose aerial points, or points with the connector badly fitted.
The answer is not to push the level up with an amplifier but to put the distribution in order: a single good splitter, suitable coaxial cable and connectors properly made off. That alone clears up a great many dropouts that looked mysterious.
New points in refurbished houses
When a floor is refurbished or a loft becomes a bedroom, the natural next thought is another television. We add aerial points in bedrooms, on terraces, in garages or in cellars, looking for the tidiest route. If the house has stone walls or thick masonry, we look at taking the cable through a light well or along the facade in discreet trunking.
If you also want channels from other countries, the signal from a satellite dish can be fed into the same distribution.
Mobile interference and dropouts at certain hours
Another common symptom: the picture freezes at particular times of day. One possible cause is 4G and 5G transmissions, which work on frequencies close to the terrestrial band since 700 MHz was released in 2020. We confirm it with the field meter and, where that is the problem, fit a filter at the aerial or at the amplifier input.
Wifi and door entry in houses over several floors
Houses in Maspujols tend to have a ground floor, an upper floor and sometimes a loft. A router by the front door does not cover all of that. With wifi solutions such as a mesh system or powerline adapters we take the internet to every floor, the smart TV included. And if the doorbell can no longer be heard upstairs, we fit a door entry or video entry system with the monitor on whichever floor suits you.
An aerial shared between neighbouring houses
In some small villages there are still aerials serving two or three adjoining houses, put up as a single installation to save money. With changes of owner and successive refurbishments, those arrangements usually end up badly balanced and nobody remembers where the cable runs. If that is your case, we trace the route, measure what reaches each home and offer you two paths: put the shared installation right, or give your house an aerial of its own. You decide with the facts in front of you.
How the job goes
- You describe the problem: which set fails, since when, and whether there is a pattern.
- We come to the house and measure the signal from the roof down to every point.
- We give you a free quote covering what has to be changed.
- We carry out the repair, reposition whatever needs it and check every television.
We do not replace parts that work. If the problem is a single connector, we change that connector.
Coming out to Maspujols
From Salou we take the C-14 towards Reus and twenty minutes or so later we are in Maspujols. We reach every street in the village and the masies across the municipality. Being so close, we also look after Riudoms, Reus and Les Borges del Camp.