Neighbours dish in view from window

Irishorangutan

Hi Folks :j

Apologies if I've posted this in the wrong section.

I live on a ground floor flat and my upstairs neighbour has had Sky installed. They have installed the dish a few centimetres above our front room window. However, when you sit down on the sofa in the front room at any angle, you get 2/3rds of the sky dish in your view when you look out the window.

I phoned sky who said they can't do anything unless the guy upstairs phones. The problem being that he isn't the most reasonable of gentlemen.

Has anyone any thoughts on how I should deal with this? Am I being unreasonable?

penrhyn

Some tenancy agreements prevent you from installing your own dish/aerial, so you could have word with the landlord.

The alignment of dishes is critical, it does not take much to knock then so thy lose signal. Does your window hit the dish if you open it?

molerat

Or does your broom handle knock it when cleaning the cobwebs from around the window frame Is the dish attatched to his or your external wall, ie above or below the ceiling / floor line.

Old_Git

phone sky ,hello my name is old git
my neighbour downstairs is not happy where you the put dish can you move it ,thank you .

Kurtis_Blue

a few cm's above your window would seem to suggest it is on your wall, tell them they have 7 days to move it.

However if it is on their property and there is nothing barring the installation of dishes on your block then there's not much you can do except be very nice and offer to pay to have it moved higher, probably £45-65

catfish50

molerat wrote: »

Or does your broom handle knock it when cleaning the cobwebs from around the window frame

It might be neighbourly to give the dish a little clean at the same time.

societys_child

. . . whatever you do . . . don't pull the cable too hard, just enough to rip it out of the plug . . .

Owain_Moneysaver

Be careful that a pin from a cable clip isn't piercing the cable. That could cause water ingress and an intermittent fault even after the pin was removed.

Kurtis_Blue

Get a grip people is it really OK to cause criminal damage because you can see your neighbours property from your window? shall I scratch my neighbours Mondeo? that's an eyesore.

catfish50

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

Get a grip people is it really OK to cause criminal damage because you can see your neighbours property from your window? shall I scratch my neighbours Mondeo? that's an eyesore.

Not the same though, is it?

The satellite engineer obviously located the dish without any consideration for any factors other than reception and how soon he could get home for his tea. The quickest and indeed least aggro-provoking way to get it re-sited is for it to become clear that it needs to be moved so it won't get accidentally bumped. Accidentally bumping it is merely a helpful way of leading Sky to that sound conclusion.

End result: nothing damaged, dish moved, both neighbours happy. No one suffers except that Sky bear the cost of a second engineer's visit to put right what was done wrong the first time.

Kurtis_Blue

Its exactly the same, if the dish is legally sited then polite communication is all that is required not criminal damage and vandalism.
I'm amazed that you think the least "aggro" way is not to discuss it but to whack it with a broom, nice.

If it is not legally sited then as I suggested give 7 days and then remove and hand back.