tqd12
Established Member
Hi everyone,
I moved into a new property last month and have wanted to get a motorised dish up and running again. I looked up motorised dish installers in the area and found a guy who on his website lists himself as a certified motorised installer. So I thought great I will get in touch - he popped over yesterday to conduct a site survey (at a charge of £80) and after a less than 5 minute inspection, came to the conclusion that he would not be able to do the 90cm dish install on my property.
I had already told him that the Sky dish would need to be relocated if possible, with the 90cm dish taking its place (the motorised dish would feed into the bedroom directly next to where the sky dish is - see photos and sky dish would have to go to living room). He said there was not enough width for the dish and that with a sky dish too, it would be impossible to find space.
I'm a little bit surprised by this, I'm by no means a satellite engineer but I've even seen bungalows with two dishes on them. I knew the 90cm would probably need to be stuck on a pole to get a good arc but never thought it would be an impossible job. The garden is south facing and if you look at the photos I've attached, there's not exactly any really tall trees in the way either.
It was just a very strange encounter to me - or am I just not understanding things properly? I only wanted the motorised dish going to the bedroom and the sky dish relocated, feeding to the living room. Was this really a hard one?
I moved into a new property last month and have wanted to get a motorised dish up and running again. I looked up motorised dish installers in the area and found a guy who on his website lists himself as a certified motorised installer. So I thought great I will get in touch - he popped over yesterday to conduct a site survey (at a charge of £80) and after a less than 5 minute inspection, came to the conclusion that he would not be able to do the 90cm dish install on my property.
I had already told him that the Sky dish would need to be relocated if possible, with the 90cm dish taking its place (the motorised dish would feed into the bedroom directly next to where the sky dish is - see photos and sky dish would have to go to living room). He said there was not enough width for the dish and that with a sky dish too, it would be impossible to find space.
I'm a little bit surprised by this, I'm by no means a satellite engineer but I've even seen bungalows with two dishes on them. I knew the 90cm would probably need to be stuck on a pole to get a good arc but never thought it would be an impossible job. The garden is south facing and if you look at the photos I've attached, there's not exactly any really tall trees in the way either.
It was just a very strange encounter to me - or am I just not understanding things properly? I only wanted the motorised dish going to the bedroom and the sky dish relocated, feeding to the living room. Was this really a hard one?