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Dear all,

not sure this is the right place to ask this but here goes:

my downstairs neighbor has this ENORMOUS sat dish on the outside of the house:

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they are council tenants and as such wont remove it. they also argue they need the huge dish to get the arabic channels. is there a smaller dish i can get which will stick pick up the arabic channels? i am happy to pay a few hundred quid to replace it for a smaller one.

thanks for any help.
 
It depends which satellite they are receiving off to be honest, Hotbird can be received easily on a region 2 Sky dish, however and unfortunately for you and going off the Sky dishes on the picture which Im assuming are pointing at Astra 2 it doesn't look like that's where they are getting their channels from, maybe nilesat or the other one that takes a bigger dish, however don't dishes over a certain size need certain permissions in your area if its just plonked on the front like that.
 
the further away the satellite the bigger the dish you need.

but there are legal restrictions on how big dishes are allowed to be without planning permission, etc. so do some research.

tbh is it really a big issue? these types of things happen when you don't live in a detached home and people are free to do such things to their own property. what is the actual problem? and will a slightly smaller dish really fix it?
 
That does look really ugly.

If they are council tenants then it's down to the council on policy (why can't they place it high up like others have that might be worth looking into)

I know the deeds to my house say no outside aerials or satellite dishes over 80cm but not sure if they are valid anymore.
 
i would be happy to pay for the costs to move it to the roof.... i cant see it being that much, but is there room up there?

i just think it looks ugly. i am trying to rent a room out and i don't think it makes a good impression if, when you arrive, it looks like you have a del boy style airport satellite on the wall.....

the council own the freehold and the dish has been there years (before i bought the place) so not sure if planning permission would be required or if it was, just a formality.
 
If its over 1m in size it should have planning permission, it could go off a tk bracket at the back of the house if its accessible I suppose and your really desperate to get it moved as the slope of the roof doesnt look too much, depends if the satellite is low down in the horizon or not but I doubt the roof would be overly in the way.
 
gjrc said:
i just think it looks ugly. i am trying to rent a room out and i don't think it makes a good impression if, when you arrive, it looks like you have a del boy style airport satellite on the wall.....
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to me the inside would matter 100 times more than the outside.

tbh i don't really see what the problem is with it, it's a satellite dish, yes its a bit bigger than the norm but a lot of houses have them.

should you go on holiday to asia, these dishes are everywhere, even on top of little buildings no bigger than a garage.

my neighbour complained to the sky engineer about the small sky dish we were having installed, saying they are an eyesore and should be banned, she must be retarded because her house also has one attached to it. the engineer mentioned it to me, and he even mentioned the dish on her house, so he was as confused as i was.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
my neighbour complained to the sky engineer about the small sky dish we were having installed, saying they are an eyesore and should be banned, she must be retarded because her house also has one attached to it. the engineer mentioned it to me, and he even mentioned the dish on her house, so he was as confused as i was.
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Lol reminds me of when I was doing one and the neighbor insisted it had to go in the loft as that's where theirs was (I think they must have just meant their regular aerial but never got into it hoping they would just move on), unfortunately this put the idea into the customers head also and took a while of talking him out of it even though I said I could only do it if he cut a hole in his roof or had a skylight and it was hopefully facing the right way with the right type of glass....
 
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Psycho Sonny said:
to me the inside would matter 100 times more than the outside.

tbh i don't really see what the problem is with it, it's a satellite dish, yes its a bit bigger than the norm but a lot of houses have them.

should you go on holiday to asia, these dishes are everywhere, even on top of little buildings no bigger than a garage.

my neighbour complained to the sky engineer about the small sky dish we were having installed, saying they are an eyesore and should be banned, she must be retarded because her house also has one attached to it. the engineer mentioned it to me, and he even mentioned the dish on her house, so he was as confused as i was.
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That is your opinion but there is a lot of us that like are outside to look pleasant as well.

You will find not a lot of houses have the over the top large dishes like that yes mini dishes but that is completely different they are like 30-40cm not 1m which I would think the original poster would have no problem if it was a mini dish in that location.

We are not in Asia that is a different country/culture they also cut off peoples hands so we should be like that as well then? No

LOL some neighbors can be like that it could be maybe when looking out window all they see is your dish not there own that is why she was moaning about it.
 
Don't forget your not allowed to fit them on chimmy stacks, could you not ask them to fit a T&K bracket around the back this would give you more hight to receive the signal and be hidden away from the front of the property.
 
Spook187 said:
Don't forget your not allowed to fit them on chimmy stacks.....
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Granted it isn't an idea position but I don't believe, by all means prove me wrong, there is a law that states you can't use chimney mounts for satellite dishes. I've only ever seen recommendations that state that you shouldn't fit a dish larger than 60cm.
 
Either get it moved to the back of the property, it looks like it will be fine with the roof there, or what's the area on top of those bay windows like? It looks like that wall is a fair bit higher than the actual flat roof. You could get it moved to the area enclosed by the wall and still pick up as good a signal if the positioning is correct. Could probably go as far as a clear dish if you needed to depending on how large that one is.

You'll need a local installer who is willing to spend the time on it and won't make a complete bodge of the install. There must be some in London.
 
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thanks guys. i will get a local installer to come out and have a loot to see what can be done.
 
visibleman said:
Granted it isn't an idea position but I don't believe, by all means prove me wrong, there is a law that states you can't use chimney mounts for satellite dishes. I've only ever seen recommendations that state that you shouldn't fit a dish larger than 60cm.
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It may only be with sky, when I was installer with them, that was the rules under no circumstances had we to install brackets to chimmy stacks, the council will have any info on what's allowed as some don't even let you put on front of house.
 
Our sky dish is on our chimney. I don't know if it was originally installed by sky though as it was installed before we moved in. My guess is it was the only place it would get line of sight because of the trees behind our house.
 
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