Everything here comes from the jobs we do every week in Brisbane: which hardware to buy, which walls and roofs need what, and what things honestly cost. No filler, no thousand-word introductions.
Why the dish needs a clear cone of northern sky, how to read the app’s obstruction scan at roof height, and the Brisbane fixes in cost order — relocation, higher mounts, poles.
Starlink
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The installer’s side of strata approval: the four objections committees actually raise, the application pack that answers them, and the MATV alternative that needs no application at all.
Antennas · strata
Read the guide →Safety first, the five-photo evidence checklist insurers actually use, when claiming beats paying the excess, and the reinstatement that survives next storm season.
Antennas
Read the guide →Verified channels, frequencies, power and polarisation for Mount Coot-tha, Darlington Range and Gregors Creek — and why Brisbane’s south-east needs its antenna rotated 90 degrees. The dataset behind our transmitter finder.
Antennas · pillar guide
Read the guide →Match your symptom — weather pixelation, missing channel groups, one bad outlet — to its actual cause, including the south-east polarisation trap, over-amplification and 4G interference that national guides never mention.
Antennas
Read the guide →The decision table we use on roofs, published: what is genuinely repairable, what corrosion and storm damage really mean, the 10-year rule, and the insurance evidence checklist nobody provides.
Antennas
Read the guide →The kit ships with a kickstand and nothing else. Every official mount explained - Pivot, Flashing, Ridgeline, Pipe Adapter, wall and ground pole - matched to tile, Colorbond, tin and flat roofs, with the tile rule most installers ignore and an honest DIY-or-installer table.
Starlink
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Fixed, tilting or full-motion - the room decides, not the shop. What VESA means in one paragraph, the six things a proper install always does, why the wall matters more than the bracket, and when a weekend DIY genuinely makes sense.
TV mounting
Read the guide →Half the repair calls we take end without a ladder coming off the van. The Brisbane triage order, starting with the manual retune that costs nothing.
Antenna
Read the guide →What actually raises signal quality, in cost order: the plane, the joins, the splits and the cable - then when an amplifier genuinely helps, and the inner-Brisbane case where it hurts.
Antenna
Read the guide →American videos assume one wall; Queensland builds with seven, and three will drop a TV mounted the YouTube way. The pillar guide, wall by wall, with the four failure modes.
TV mounting
Read the guide →Hardware, mounts and professional install ranges by roof type - including why tile roofs carry a premium and where DIY genuinely saves money.
Starlink
Read the guide →Two walls that look identical take opposite fixings. How to tell veneer from double brick, the anchors that hold, and why mortar joints are forbidden.
TV mounting
Read the guide →More on the way. Coming next: Brisbane TV channel frequencies and the manual retune guide, TV reception outages explained, Hebel and VJ deep dives, and home theatre room ideas. Have a question you want answered straight? Call us - the best articles start as phone questions.