Location of dish on your house

PadraigL

Hi

Can the dish be located on the front of the house or is there a law against this. I see alot of dishes on the front of houses.

Also what would the typical extra cost for a bracket/pole for the back of the house to get the dish above the roof/tile level..

threebeards

I doubt if there's any law against putting a dish on the front of your house but imo it doesn't look great. When I had mine installed, the installer wanted to put it on the front of my house but I wasn't having it. After some grumbling and groaning, he agreed to put it on the wall in the back garden. It meant more cabling but I'm happier to have it there than on the front of the house.

Villain

Under the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 the erection of satellite dishes on or within the curtilage of a house is exempted from the requirement to receive planning permission and is subject to conditions. The conditions include that no such antenna shall be erected on, or forward of, the front wall of a house.

Capt'n Midnight

Some areas have more restrictive local by-laws on this, but have a look at what your neighbours have got away with. Look at the average location, and try not to put it on the chimeney unless no other alternative.

Sparky

our area is an area where even your windows can be changed without putting the same back in, even the doors have to be the same, so thats why there is no satellite dishes on the front of the houses, lucky for me the back of my house is pointing east, but for the neighbours across the road most have the dish on a pole just over the gutter of the back of the roof to get a signal.

Charlie

This may be a completley ignorant question, but most people on my road have the dish on the chimney and I'm getting sky installed tommorrow, what is the disadvantage of putting the ds on the chimney?

Tony

charlie mchugh wrote:

This may be a completley ignorant question, but most people on my road have the dish on the chimney and I'm getting sky installed tommorrow, what is the disadvantage of putting the ds on the chimney?

It can damage the chimney and your insurance may not pay for the damage plus you are more likely to suffer storm damage

watty

Also more awkward / expensive to realign dish, replace static damaged LNB, swap LNB for Quad etc..

An old wobbly brick tall single flue chmney may be a greater risk than a squat, concrete block, rendered chimney stack with two or more flues..

Sparky

charlie mchugh wrote:

This may be a completley ignorant question, but most people on my road have the dish on the chimney and I'm getting sky installed tommorrow, what is the disadvantage of putting the ds on the chimney?

if the installer drills too deep the clay pipe inside can crack and lead to all kinds of damp problems.
Especially in old chimneys.

Charlie

Thanks for the info guys. The chimney thing is another thing to add to the list for my install. Between that aNd making sure they tack the telephone cable, along with the stories of installer no-shows and card delays, I'll be lucky if I get this friggin thing installed!!!

Ulsterman 1690

From a planning point of view I cant understand why they take such exception to Chimneys. I reckon dishes look better on chimneys than on the front of houses. There SHOULD be something against putting BLACK dishes on the front of WHITE houses though :rolleyes:

watty

You can spray /paint the dish. NON metallic, no zinc etc.

I've seen a few disgused ones.

helps reduce the speed of rusting on mesh ones too.

Our man in Havana

The only rescrictions on putting it on the front are if the dish is >1m or the house is grade 1 listed. If the latter you will have to put it in a place where it is not visible from the front at all. An Taisce will come after you if you dare to put it on the front.

iano

Bond-007 wrote:

The only rescrictions on putting it on the front are if the dish is >1m or the house is grade 1 listed. If the latter you will have to put it in a place where it is not visible from the front at all. An Taisce will come after you if you dare to put it on the front.

Not according to http://oasis.gov.ie/housing/planning_permission/planning_perm_altering_a_house.html

A satellite dish (up to 1 metre across the below the top of the roof) at the back or side of the house (a dish on the front needs planning permission). Only one dish may be erected on a house.

Or Cork Corporation http://www.corkcorp.ie/ourservices/planning/pdf/Satellite_Dish_Information_leaflet.pdf
Similarly, Clare, Galway, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown etc.

Our man in Havana

Not to be erected on, or forward to the front wall of the house.

So no dishes on the front without PP. What I have always thought.

Ronan|Raven

1 dish per house eh? *goes off whistling*