Told to remove sky dish off new home, or court action
Discussion
Why does it matter if someone has a satellite dish on their house? Even in that picture above it's hardly a massive problem. It's like saying you have to have hidden drainpipes and gutters.
I can't remember the last time I actually noticed a satellite dish to have any particular thoughts about it and there's one attached to my house!
I can't remember the last time I actually noticed a satellite dish to have any particular thoughts about it and there's one attached to my house!
I was a sky installer for 10 years, ive been in new builds that had a sky distribution system fitted whilst the house was being built but no dishes where allowed..which was just mad. What looks nice is when one company fits out a whole estate, so all dishes installed on the same section of each house rather than just thrown up by different companies/installers. OP get a local independent round to hide the dish in the garden or off the back of the garage or shed or somewhere else.
St Mary's Island in Chatham Kent had a blanket dish ban, i never registered a did not install whilst working there. Trellis and planters are good at hiding dishes.
I bet the person that threatened court action has a sky dish..
St Mary's Island in Chatham Kent had a blanket dish ban, i never registered a did not install whilst working there. Trellis and planters are good at hiding dishes.
I bet the person that threatened court action has a sky dish..
hyphen said:
No need to swear- needless swearing is also a chavvy thing to do 
Quick google to illustrate:
This won't be seen from the front:
This is not what you want:
First pic. Council.Quick google to illustrate:
This won't be seen from the front:
This is not what you want:
Second pic. Would be a s
thole with or without dishes.The op is on a new build development ferchrissakes.
I don't really like Sky dishes on houses personally i'm just amazed Sky haven't come up with something a bit more attractive.
In saying that I know a guy who had a massive dish on the roof of his garage about the size of a small hatchback he got tens of thousands of channels from every single country and nobody ever complained.
In saying that I know a guy who had a massive dish on the roof of his garage about the size of a small hatchback he got tens of thousands of channels from every single country and nobody ever complained.
dudleybloke said:
If he's lived in the house for less than 12 months he can demand trial by combat.
Against the installer? Risky...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5n28hpMFBE
Sheepshanks said:
Outrageous. Next thing they'll be saying he can't leave the bins at the front.
Before long he won't be able to keep his old sofa on the drive, have more than three scrap cars on the lawn or hang the St George's flag out the bedroom window. It's a proper liberty, what with him having rights and all.vsonix said:
What are the advantages of Sky via dish these days anyway? Isn't it something of a relic?
Virgin don't have Sky Atlantic.Sky Go doesn't have recording functionality.
Besides, satellite is still the easiest way to broadcast a large amount of content (e.g. 4K content) to people at once. Plus Sky's product is actually pretty good (although I did work on aspects of it - I used to work for a couple of companies who supply Virgin and Sky as a developer).
I'm moving into a new place soon (hopefully...) and due to trees at the front of the house I think the dish will either have to go on a T&K bracket on the gable end or on the chimney. Will call up a local installer rather than getting Sky out I think. I'd like to chuck a dish up to do some feed hunting too but I fear my wife won't be too happy with a 1.2M dish chucked up!
There are dishes you can get which look less like dishes too - e.g. http://www.sqish.co.uk - won't be as good as a dish (you'd probably want to be in the south of the UK) but may work if you have no other luck.
Ynox said:
Virgin don't have Sky Atlantic.
Sky Go doesn't have recording functionality.
Besides, satellite is still the easiest way to broadcast a large amount of content (e.g. 4K content) to people at once. Plus Sky's product is actually pretty good (although I did work on aspects of it - I used to work for a couple of companies who supply Virgin and Sky as a developer).
I'm moving into a new place soon (hopefully...) and due to trees at the front of the house I think the dish will either have to go on a T&K bracket on the gable end or on the chimney. Will call up a local installer rather than getting Sky out I think. I'd like to chuck a dish up to do some feed hunting too but I fear my wife won't be too happy with a 1.2M dish chucked up!
There are dishes you can get which look less like dishes too - e.g. http://www.sqish.co.uk - won't be as good as a dish (you'd probably want to be in the south of the UK) but may work if you have no other luck.
They'd be more discreet without the white frame.Sky Go doesn't have recording functionality.
Besides, satellite is still the easiest way to broadcast a large amount of content (e.g. 4K content) to people at once. Plus Sky's product is actually pretty good (although I did work on aspects of it - I used to work for a couple of companies who supply Virgin and Sky as a developer).
I'm moving into a new place soon (hopefully...) and due to trees at the front of the house I think the dish will either have to go on a T&K bracket on the gable end or on the chimney. Will call up a local installer rather than getting Sky out I think. I'd like to chuck a dish up to do some feed hunting too but I fear my wife won't be too happy with a 1.2M dish chucked up!
There are dishes you can get which look less like dishes too - e.g. http://www.sqish.co.uk - won't be as good as a dish (you'd probably want to be in the south of the UK) but may work if you have no other luck.
gtidriver said:
I was a sky installer for 10 years
Are sky installers on commission or piecework?We recently did refurbs on all our blocks of flats and as part of the work installed communal dishes on the roofs with internally run cabling to every flat, complex setup too to allow for Sky+ in every room. It cost us thousands per block but decided to take the hit as it would greatly improve the looks of the flats, especially as we'd fitted external insulation and nice new sprayed on render.
A couple of weeks in, a handful of tenants who didn't have Sky prior to the refurb decided to take advantage of the new setup and order a Sky subscription. The Sky installers who came out told them they couldn't connect to the communal system and each had to have a new dish fitted. They proceeded to fit dishes, damaging the new render and insulation in the process and covering the building in a spiders web of miscoloured wires. It took us six months of legal stuff to get the dishes removed and the battle to get someone to pay for the repairs to the building is still ongoing.
All because (I suspect) the t
ts in the sky vans would have lost some commission if they'd simply connected up to the system we'd had fitted.We had a similar covenant when we moved into our new build a couple of years ago. The stupid thing is the way the estate has been designed means our neighbours front is next to our back, and vice versa. So we have a sky dish next to the front of their house and they have one next to ours 
Don't really understand the point of this type of covenant. So many people have sky tv these days, the dishes are very commonplace and you don't really pay any attention to them. And quite frankly, if someone was put off moving here because of a sky dish I'd consider us having had a lucky escape
We also had the no vans/caravans/etc covenant, and guess what, that was completely ignored. Roads are littered with 'abandoned' vans. Not too bothered as they don't affect us, but these days with so many people self employed, or having company vans, its hard to avoid.
Don't really understand the point of this type of covenant. So many people have sky tv these days, the dishes are very commonplace and you don't really pay any attention to them. And quite frankly, if someone was put off moving here because of a sky dish I'd consider us having had a lucky escape
We also had the no vans/caravans/etc covenant, and guess what, that was completely ignored. Roads are littered with 'abandoned' vans. Not too bothered as they don't affect us, but these days with so many people self employed, or having company vans, its hard to avoid.
Zetec-S said:
Don't really understand the point of this type of covenant. So many people have sky tv these days, the dishes are very commonplace and you don't really pay any attention to them. And quite frankly, if someone was put off moving here because of a sky dish I'd consider us having had a lucky escape
I think the covenant probably came along due to the huge satellite dishes for foreign TV that take up a quarter of the front of a house. Very common in London.Edited by hyphen on Wednesday 24th May 10:17
So said:
Ynox said:
Virgin don't have Sky Atlantic.
Sky Go doesn't have recording functionality.
Besides, satellite is still the easiest way to broadcast a large amount of content (e.g. 4K content) to people at once. Plus Sky's product is actually pretty good (although I did work on aspects of it - I used to work for a couple of companies who supply Virgin and Sky as a developer).
I'm moving into a new place soon (hopefully...) and due to trees at the front of the house I think the dish will either have to go on a T&K bracket on the gable end or on the chimney. Will call up a local installer rather than getting Sky out I think. I'd like to chuck a dish up to do some feed hunting too but I fear my wife won't be too happy with a 1.2M dish chucked up!
There are dishes you can get which look less like dishes too - e.g. http://www.sqish.co.uk - won't be as good as a dish (you'd probably want to be in the south of the UK) but may work if you have no other luck.
They'd be more discreet without the white frame.Sky Go doesn't have recording functionality.
Besides, satellite is still the easiest way to broadcast a large amount of content (e.g. 4K content) to people at once. Plus Sky's product is actually pretty good (although I did work on aspects of it - I used to work for a couple of companies who supply Virgin and Sky as a developer).
I'm moving into a new place soon (hopefully...) and due to trees at the front of the house I think the dish will either have to go on a T&K bracket on the gable end or on the chimney. Will call up a local installer rather than getting Sky out I think. I'd like to chuck a dish up to do some feed hunting too but I fear my wife won't be too happy with a 1.2M dish chucked up!
There are dishes you can get which look less like dishes too - e.g. http://www.sqish.co.uk - won't be as good as a dish (you'd probably want to be in the south of the UK) but may work if you have no other luck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarial
We are not allowed any caravans or front fences.
hyphen said:
Zetec-S said:
Don't really understand the point of this type of covenant. So many people have sky tv these days, the dishes are very commonplace and you don't really pay any attention to them. And quite frankly, if someone was put off moving here because of a sky dish I'd consider us having had a lucky escape
I think the covenant probably came along due to the huge satellite dishes for foreign TV that take up a quarter of the front of a house. Very common in London.Edited by hyphen on Wednesday 24th May 10:17
and with more and more properties being built on estates where there are Management Companies to deal with the maintenance of roads, open spaces and the like you are going to find that the old days of "The developer will not give a s
t once they have sold the last house on the development and closed the site office" will be a thing of the past.[quote=
Are sky installers on commission or piecework?
All because (I suspect) the tts in the sky vans would have lost some commission if they'd simply connected up to the system we'd had fitted.
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When we took advantage of topcashback deal by cancelling my subscription and starting in wife's name the installer turned up a month later. I said no need for dish as already had one. He sat in his van for 45 minutes on my drive as that was his allocated job time for new installation and vans are tracked. He left me with new dish and sky box and said to put them on eBay, I signed paperwork for satisfactory install.
Are sky installers on commission or piecework?
All because (I suspect) the t
ts in the sky vans would have lost some commission if they'd simply connected up to the system we'd had fitted.[/quote]
When we took advantage of topcashback deal by cancelling my subscription and starting in wife's name the installer turned up a month later. I said no need for dish as already had one. He sat in his van for 45 minutes on my drive as that was his allocated job time for new installation and vans are tracked. He left me with new dish and sky box and said to put them on eBay, I signed paperwork for satisfactory install.
Actually good to see a management company actually enforcing this.
The first property I ever bought was on a development. Sky dishes weren't allowed. Yet within a year every property had a dumb looking dish hanging off the front of their house. The ground floor flat of our block was a rental and had a regular turn over of tenants, and every time a new tenant moved in, they would call sky and get a new dish fitted. By the time we sold the flat this small 2 bed flat had 5 dishes attached to it.
If they had also do something about the retarded parking, people hanging washing & flags out of their window and insisting people put the bins away after they had been collected then the whole development wouldn't have looked like such a st hole.
If the property has access to a broadband connection, then I cant understand why anyone in this day and age would even bother with a sky dish. You can get everything on Sky through Now TV at a mere fraction of what it costs to have the Dish based service. They either like wasting money or are just stupid.
The first property I ever bought was on a development. Sky dishes weren't allowed. Yet within a year every property had a dumb looking dish hanging off the front of their house. The ground floor flat of our block was a rental and had a regular turn over of tenants, and every time a new tenant moved in, they would call sky and get a new dish fitted. By the time we sold the flat this small 2 bed flat had 5 dishes attached to it.
If they had also do something about the retarded parking, people hanging washing & flags out of their window and insisting people put the bins away after they had been collected then the whole development wouldn't have looked like such a s
t hole.If the property has access to a broadband connection, then I cant understand why anyone in this day and age would even bother with a sky dish. You can get everything on Sky through Now TV at a mere fraction of what it costs to have the Dish based service. They either like wasting money or are just stupid.
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