Sky HD a tree and a horrible neighbor

brucey034 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:29

Late last year our sky tv started to cut off whenever we had heavy rain, with the no satellite signal message being displayed.
We paid to have a sky engineer come and have a look and he said it was due to the tree in our neighbours garden, he moved the dish about a foot to the right and that cured the problem.
Now the problem has returned, but it's no longer just when we get heavy rain, the slightest drizzle and the satellite signal goes.
We phoned the housing authority who own our neighbours house to tell them of the problem and ask if they could arrange for the tree to be trimmed down a bit, apparently they are not responsible for issues like this, and it is up to the tenant to pay and arrange to have the tree sorted.
The problem we are now facing is our neighbour has never worked a day in her life and is just a loud mouthed abusive excuse for a human being who has no money, I am certain that even if she had got the money she would not pay to sort the tree out.
So what would you do in this situation ?
a, we cannot approach her because of her violent nature.
b, we dont want to sort her tree out for her.
c, we are paying for sky that whenever it rains we cannot watch.
Sorry for the wall of text.

Narj · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:31

Get cable instead?

brucey034 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:32

PianoBasher said:
Get cable instead?

Yep, That was the first thing I thought of, but we cannot get cable in our house.

burtie · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:32

You pay for the tree to be sorted as your the one with the problem with it.

estebanrey · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:33

What relevance is the HD bit in the title?

oneale90 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:33

Burn down her tree?

Jono · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:34

Is it a big tree? If so go cut it down yourselves one night, so that it lands on her bedroom with her in it.
That's two problems solved, right there.

PiKe · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:35

Relocate the dish to the annex of the roof or the other end entirely?

GravyMonster · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:35

estebanrey said:
What relevance is the HD bit in the title?

To annoy you.

edscdk · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:35

burtie said:
You pay for the tree to be sorted as your the one with the problem with it.

I agree with this....

Woden · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:35

You are perfectly entitled to trim the tree at the point it goes over into your land, as long as you offer her the wood.

By wood I mean from the tree, not *your* wood.

Offer her that as well.

brucey034 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:36

burtie said:
You pay for the tree to be sorted as your the one with the problem with it.

That is what I was afraid of.
The problem is I know she would not let us go near the tree just out of spite.

:(Rhodri:) · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:37

estebanrey said:
What relevance is the HD bit in the title?

So it rhymes?

I'm afraid the most reasonable thing would be to arrange with her to allow you to get someone in to sort it. You may not want to, but that seems the quickest and easiest solution for everyone.

Dr House · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:37

Call sky and say you want to cancel because you can not get a proper signal due to the tree.

They will first say they can come and fix it for £60 pounds, again tell them that is no good and you want to cancel.

They will then offer to do it for free.

brucey034 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:38

The tree is located next to one of our other neighbours, its the height of the damm thing that is the issue.
Its about 5ft higher than her house.

Resident · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:38

Just kill the tree, various methods can be found on Google.

brucey034 · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:38

estebanrey said:
What relevance is the HD bit in the title?

Its the HD channels that cut of first,

booyaka · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:39

Move the dish? or
You pay for the tree to be trimmed.

Why should she have to do anything to improve your enjoyment of Sky??

PiKe · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:39

Ring the tree as to kill it?

Nymins · 12 Jun 2012 at 15:40

Surprised Sky installed it at all since there obviously isn't direct sight of Astra 28.2