However, you may wish to avoid the risk of causing roof damage with your satellite dish, as poor installation or unexpected weather conditions can have a surprising impact. An alternative satellite dish mounting location is at the top of a sturdy metal or wood pole. As opposed to your roof, a pole offers you much more flexibility for satellite placement, and can help you avoid signal loss if you choose a completely unobstructed location. The pole should be adequately anchored with concrete under the ground to stabilize the dish during windy weather.
Roof-mounted satellite dishes seldom leak right away. Over time, however, weather-related expansion and shrinking of roof materials creates leaky gaps where the dish has been screwed into the shingles.
To prevent this from happening, add a rubber sheet beneath the satellite foot plate to block leaks and protect the shingles from cosmetic contact damage. All of these cost more and would affect the cost of your quote. Our standard installation package includes a Sky style mini-dish which is fine for Sky and Freesat reception in the England and the south of the UK and depending on the age is around a 45cm satellite dish. The further north you go into Scotland the weaker the satellite beams are and a slightly larger satellite dish of 60cm is recommended.
Aside from that if you are trying to receive TV from abroad a larger satellite dish is very often required which will affect your installation price. Because you would be trying to pick up satellite beams not specifically intended for the UK a larger dish is needed to get more signal. For TV from Italy, Poland an 80cm satellite dish is suggested and some countries TV the beams may be so weak that you need a 1m dish size and beyond.
The larger the satellite dish is the more it will cost. Aside from the LNB upgrade which may be required to allow you to connect more cables to your satellite dish, the amount of cables that are to be installed from the satellite dish will also affect your satellite dish installation quotes, for example cables installed to multiple rooms and twin cables installed for recordable satellite boxes. This is just to cover the difference in cost for the cable and extra F connectors which will be required.
Read this blog for more information on how many cables you can connect to one satellite dish. I know that some people who have always used Sky for their satellite dish installations and repairs are often surprised by the cost of the service when they go elsewhere. This has been common with the smaller type TV suppliers when you buy a Freesat box or something similar but is becoming more common with the larger stores also.
They may have people within the company that can do the satellite work or they may sub contract this out to another company.
It is worth noting that when you get an offer for a free or discounted installation that what would be included within this would be very limiting. Often companies only allow something like 45 minutes per job which is in my opinion not enough time to complete installations to a consistently high standard and why it is common to see cables slung over roofs, unsecured and very poor workmanship.
As an aerial and satellite dish installation company we get a lot of work from installations that are not particularly difficult, but Sky have refused to do them. If you live in a seaside town and particularly if you live on or nearby the seafront itself.
You will already be familiar with Sky dishes rusting and falling apart, leaving rust streaks down the wall and generally making the place look untidy. This is because most satellite dishes are simply painted steel and soon as the paint fails, the rust begins to set in. You can to avoid this scenario install a satellite dish that is made of a non-rusting and longer life material with aluminium satellite dish and fibreglass satellite dishes both available on the market.
We have already covered a certain amount of this, but quality of the materials installed certainly will affect the cost of your satellite dish price. Although there is not a lot of difference in a Sky style mini dish quality from manufacturer to manufacturer because they are all made to a very similar spec.
Some of the larger satellite dish range dramatically in terms of quality and price. Another common thing to look out for is the use of cheap or inferior type cables and connectors. The best cable connectors are compression type, followed by crimp on style connectors and the twist on F type connectors. If you have installed the twist on connectors on properly, which so often are not. You can save a fair amount on your installation.
But, as there is often no record of the sale and it goes in the installers back pocket the installer there fore has no tax liability on that transaction. From a consumers point of view you are protected by many laws when you buy a product or service from a company and without a proof of purchase there is record that the sale ever happened.
Most cowboys and rogue satellite installers will also insist that you pay cash. VAT is too much, I completely agree. Especially in regard to small and medium business. Where one day you could be perfectly legally trading and under the VAT turnover threshold and not have to charge your customers a penny in VAT on their bill. Everywhere Threads This forum This thread. Search Advanced…. Search forums. Install the app.
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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Status Please reply by conversation. Alexander Olar Thread Starter. Nov 24, Macomb Michigan. For a while now I wanted to mount my dish on my chimney. My furnace exhaust is in another place. What do you think of this RCA mount? Is it a good choice or not? Nov 13, 5, 3, Central Pennsylvania.
Alexander Olar said:. Click to expand FTA4PA said:. I think those were originally made for mounting an 18" dish to your chimney. Don't know what the weight limit is so you should consider the size of your current dish plus whether you will be motorizing it before purchasing.
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