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This is why people should get a Reputable Aerial rigger to install your Aerial.

  • 12-07-2011 4:13pm
    #1
    St Senan
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    How could any one pay to get this done.


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  • #2
    12 element
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 719 ✭✭✭12 element


    Were you called in to fix it scaller? Where does that cable go?


  • #3
    St Senan
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭St Senan


    12 element wrote: »
    Were you called in to fix it scaller? Where does that cable go?

    No I was working at the neighbours house. The twin coax comes from the dish it raps around a ridge cap its clipped to the ridge cap which is not in the pictures and goes back down the roof and down the front wall. the coax from the aerial goes under the lead and into the attic.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Forgive my ignorance but what is wrong with the instalation?

    Surre it looks messy and they have used a Sky bracket and arm but if their getting a picture what harm is it?


  • #5
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    Drilling into a chimney? Twice? Just for starters.


  • #6
    darth_maul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 317 ✭✭darth_maul


    excollier wrote: »
    Drilling into a chimney? Twice? Just for starters.
    didn't even drill into the chimney they drilled and fixed into the cap on the chimney, shocking surely a diy install but still can't believe that they would think it would be acceptable.


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  • #7
    St Senan
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭St Senan


    darth_maul wrote: »
    didn't even drill into the chimney they drilled and fixed into the cap on the chimney, shocking surely a diy install but still can't believe that it would be acceptable.

    Its not a diy install,The neighbour told me it was a paid job.


  • #8
    NewHillel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭NewHillel


    scaller wrote: »
    Its not a diy install,The neighbour told me it was a paid job.

    And that's the problem, paying for work in modern Ireland is no guarantee of a good job. I've seen much worse, TBH. It's a very light Aerial and, if the Installer had cut the extension off the Sky Dish Arm, he might (just) have got away with it. He obviously didn't have the lashing kit for the Chimney.

    Don't flame me now, I'm not suggesting for a moment that it's up to standard!


  • #9
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    In this case, I'm siding towards this being one of the worst installations I've seen.

    It's one thing to e.g. hang an aerial up on a bamboo stick of a pole with 40 year old coax hanging out if it. The aerial won't work well and that's bad form. But here, the structural integrity of the chimney is undermined by directly drilling into the surface that protects water ingress in the chimney and prevents rain over time from spreading into the attic or even the living areas. Render that's been undermined by water can be cracked very easily or indeed can simply fall off through freeze-thaw action. I've seen it happen.

    Better give them an "amplified digital HD indoor aerial" for €30 than do that to the chimney...


  • #10
    ISAA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 339 ✭✭ISAA


    COWBOY I guess.


  • #11
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,153 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Neighbour had UPC out to sort his cable installation out. They ran the cable over his roof from the front to the back, with the cable just left on the slates. I would think that is cowboy stuff as well.


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  • #12
    NewHillel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭NewHillel


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    In this case, I'm siding towards this being one of the worst installations I've seen.

    Maybe you're right. However...

    I have a much worse one, done by an official Sky Installer, not a million miles from where I'm sitting. Even worse, the chimney has cracked. (The dish mount was drilled into the chimney with large fixings.)

    Any thoughts on how Sky could be pursued? (I'm really serious!)


  • #13
    excollier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭excollier


    NewHillel wrote: »
    Maybe you're right. However...

    I have a much worse one, done by an official Sky Installer, not a million miles from where I'm sitting. Even worse, the chimney has cracked. (The dish mount was drilled into the chimney with large fixings.)

    Any thoughts on how Sky could be pursued? (I'm really serious!)
    With an axe!


  • #14
    NewHillel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭NewHillel


    excollier wrote: »
    With an axe!

    I wish...

    Anyway, does anyone have a standards-based reference installation document for domestic installations?


  • #15
    jett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 193 ✭✭jett


    At the risk of sticking my nose in I am led to believe that fitting a dish to a stack comes under the heading of not best practice rather than illegal.
    The wind loading of a solid dish my rip out poor fixings.
    It is of course best practise to clamp a mast around a stack rather than drill the stack.
    The wind loading of an aerial is next to nothing.
    Why bother to take a drill up to stack height when a clamp system is easier to use and only requires a spanner?
    Common sense enit?


  • #16
    St Senan
    Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 3,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭St Senan


    jett wrote: »
    Why bother to take a drill up to stack height when a clamp system is easier to use and only requires a spanner?
    Common sense enit?

    Its all these that guys know. When most of these guys are trained to Install dishes the Trainer is probably standing on a step ladder drilling four holes in a wall.


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