Inappropriate Location for dish

freetoair

I'm aware that Drogheda corporation have started to take action against anyone with a satellite dish on front, chimney or side of their house unless planning permission was granted. I have one on my chimney which I assumed was fine since I availed of a 'standard installation' 3 years ago. Looks like it has to come down, even though its smaller and less visble than my standard TV ariel.

But on this subject, I was driving up through Ballybough road in Dublin the other evening and couldn't believe what I saw. A terraced house had two satellite dishes on the front obscuring the entire ground floor and some of the first floor of the house.
We're not talking mini-dish here, but a big 2m dish. Seeing this I can understand the requirement for planning permission as its 'funny' looking.

Just curious, has anyone else seen any bizarre installations or have the installers among you been asked to install odd locations.

dmeehan

i have seen newly built houses in killarney with an old analogue dish and a new mini-dish bolted to hte front of the house, right above the front door!

looks horrendous, i can only imagine what the neighbours must think

on a nother point, if your house is south facing and in the middle of a terrace, where are you supposed to put your minidish?

Tony

Originally posted by dmeehan

on a nother point, if your house is south facing and in the middle of a terrace, where are you supposed to put your minidish?

In that case you use a stand off bracket and mount the dish on the back of the house.

Tony

Capt'n Midnight

You can have a longish cable in to the Digibox/FTA and then take a normal TV cable from it as far as you want.

eg: Bolt the dish to a paving slab - it does not have to be high - it only has to see the satellite.. (which is at about [edit] 21-25 [do'h] degrees so you have to be no further than twice the height of the house above the dish away from it.)

you can also mount dishes on a T K bracket (so called cos of the shape of the metal )- if you do a bit of trig you will see that a 45 degree roof only blocks a 25 deg signal if you are very unlucky in the orientation.

You could also get panels (technically possible - but not common round here so probably only for high signal areas) or cunningly disguise the dish as a front gareden ornament type thing.

perhaps a removable bracket -.ie not a permenant fitting might get around the by laws in the same way sheds get around pp. (ie just get some wing nuts - and if you put a lock on it - that proves it ain;t permenant ..)

Tony

Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
You can have a longish cable in to the Digibox/FTA and then take a normal TV cable from it as far as you want.

eg: Bolt the dish to a paving slab - it does not have to be high - it only has to see the satellite.. (which is at about 45 degrees so you have to be no further than the height of the house away from it.)

I think you will find its actually 25 degrees elevation or thereabouts.

Tony

seano

I know someone who has a 2.4 metre prime focas in his front living room .

Luckily for him it is in a couple of boxes:D

Victor

Yes, you need planning permission. The problem is some councils have very bad enforcement.

Putting them on chimneys is dangerous (1) the chimney may not be solid enough to hold it in a storm (2) while correcting the angle after the storm you could fall off the ladder.

Terraced houses can put them in the back yard.

BigEejit

Is enforcing this planning permission done in Cork?, I've never heard of it anywhere in Ireland until I saw this thread...

Lennoxschips

I've my dish down in the end of the garden next to a bush at knee high level. By the looks of things some installers seem to think that a satellite dish needs to be high up for good reception, like a conventional antenna, but that's not true of course!