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Communal TV & distribution

One reliable system feeding every flat, room or screen in the building.

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For social housing, apartment blocks, hotels and offices

Buildings with many outlets need one system designed as a whole, not a dish on every balcony. We design and install multiswitch and communal distribution so every resident, guest or room gets the channels they should, and we test each outlet before we leave.

  • Communal TV, MATV, IRS and satellite systems
  • Professional headend upgrades, such as Profiler
  • Filtering for 5G interference
  • Signal levels set, balanced and tested at every outlet
  • Repairs and upgrades to existing systems
  • Safe access to high-level aerials, including by boom lift
Signal meter connected to a wall-mounted TV distribution panel

Recent projects

  • Communal TV
  • Social housing

Communal TV upgrade for a social housing development

Upgrade works across three blocks fixed a problem that had been affecting tenants for some time. One block was still running from a roughly 30-year-old domestic-style amplifier. We also found the TV systems had originally been powered from the emergency lighting supplies, so every routine emergency lighting test cut the TV signal to tenants throughout the blocks.

  • Replaced the domestic-style amplifier with a professional Profiler headend
  • Set and balanced TV signal levels throughout
  • Rewired the TV systems in all three blocks onto permanent supplies from the main switch room, neatly enclosed in conduit
  • Separated the TV equipment from the emergency lighting circuits, so tenants keep their TV during lighting tests
  • Full testing and commissioning

More of our work

Housing block exterior with the communal satellite dish and conduit runsMain switch room distribution board supplying the communal TV systemTV system cabling run neatly in white conduit up the outside wall of a housing block
  • Communal TV
  • Repair
  • Social housing
  • Belfast

Communal TV repair: RTÉ channels restored

Residents of a social housing property had lost their RTÉ channels. The aerial system is mounted high on the building, so we hired a boom lift to reach it safely.

  • Safe access to the high-level aerial system by boom lift
  • Replaced the filtering and amplification equipment
  • Fitted filtering to help eliminate 5G interference
  • Rebalanced and tested the system
  • RTÉ restored throughout the property

More of our work

Boom lift raised to a high-level aerial system on a residential building

IPTV

TV over your network

In some buildings, especially hotels and sites with a good network already in place, IPTV can deliver television over the network instead of coaxial cable. We'll assess the building, the existing network and your content sources, and recommend the most practical option. Sometimes that's IPTV, and sometimes it's a conventional distribution system.

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Planning a project?

Tell us about the site and what you need, and we'll arrange a quotation.

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