Domestic installation is the bread and butter of this trade, and it is also where the corner-cutting is easiest to hide. A dish goes up, a picture appears, the installer leaves. Whether it is still working after the third summer depends entirely on decisions made in that first hour — bracket into brick or into mortar, connectors compression-fitted or twisted on, dish sized for the area or sized for what was on the van.
What a household actually needs
Most families want one main lounge decoder and one or two bedrooms, with each room able to watch its own channel. In practice that means a Smart LNB rather than the older twin-LNB-and-two-cables approach: one cable from the roof, fewer penetrations, fewer connectors, and room to add a third decoder later without pulling new cable through a finished ceiling.
The details that stop the callbacks
Cables clipped and routed rather than draped. Wall plates rather than a coax dangling out of a hole. Roof penetrations sealed properly. A drip loop at the LNB. Surge protection at the decoder, because load shedding transients kill power supplies. And the decoder remote programmed to control the television's volume, so nobody is left juggling two remotes for the next five years.
What homes & residential actually lose
- A weekend of family arguments over which room gets the working TV
- Paying a full subscription while half the house cannot watch it
- Repeated callouts for the same fault, because nobody fixed the cause
- Water damage from an unsealed roof penetration — far more expensive than the installation
- A dish that comes off a double-storey wall, which is a genuine safety problem
What we typically install
- Dish sized for your area, on a galvanised bracket fixed into solid brick
- Smart LNB where more than one decoder is wanted now or later
- Quality shielded RG6 cable, clipped and routed, with wall plates at each point
- Compression-fitted, weather-sealed outdoor connectors and a drip loop at the LNB
- Surge-protected decoder outlet against load-shedding transients
- Remote programmed to your TV, and signal quality measured and shown to you
Every property differs — the free site survey turns this into a fixed, itemised quote for yours.
Ready to get your homes & residential sorted?
Our DStv Installation service covers this work — from R1 150, quoted upfront — with standard installations completed within 48 hours of quote approval and a 12-month workmanship warranty.