Neighbours sky dish on our chimney

markhig2

Sky engineers are not allowed to fix a dish to a chimney using bolts like they normally do on walls. The dish must be fitted using something called a lashing kit. The damage will more than likely have been caused by the hammer drill used to drill those 4 holes.

I would approach your neighbour and talk to them about it, ultimately if the dish is to blame then sky are at fault and have to get it fixed ( that's if sky or a sub contractor working on behalf of sky fitted it ). Sky can be at fault for a period of something like 4 years, so good idea to find out how long its been there.

Niv

Davesnave wrote: »

Half the chimney is yours and half belongs to the neighbours. Not difficult at all.

The Sky dish is probably on your side to enable it to point south. It won't be much good on t'other side. Put it on an outrigger and it'll be even more vulnerable and likely to exert pressure.

They should be contributing towards the repair, and to be honest, if bricks are coming loose there should be a substantial re-build. It won't be cheap, but it's getting 'laid-back' people to contribute which will be the problem.

I'd have a builder or two to quote for repair and ask whoever gets the job to take down the aerial as a matter of "safety." Then I'd make sure there was a delay.

In that period it's likely that Sky will come along and fit the aerial somewhere else!

That may not be correct at all. My chimney is mine entirely, my neighbours is theirs. It is definitely not a 50/50 split as each house has their own.

jjlandlord

Niv wrote: »

That may not be correct at all. My chimney is mine entirely, my neighbours is theirs. It is definitely not a 50/50 split as each house has their own.

Yeah, well obviously if each property has its own chimney the chimney is not shared.
However, here TCB1 clearly said "The chimney is between our 2 houses (1930 semi), the dish is on our side" and Davesnave was replying to that.

Davesnave

jjlandlord wrote: »

Yeah, well obviously if each property has its own chimney the chimney is not shared.
However, here TCB1 clearly said "The chimney is between our 2 houses (1930 semi), the dish is on our side" and Davesnave was replied to that.

Thank you.

My last house was a 1930s semi, where the chimney stack was shared with a neighbour. Indeed, when we saw a need to re-build it, he agreed to pay half the cost.

G_M

Either

1) the chimney is shared and/or 'your' side of the chimney is yours. In which case they are trespassing. And should
i) pay for the repair which the dish almost certainly contributed to and
ii) should not replae the dish

or

2) the chimney is theirs, in which case.... they should repair it!

phead

markhig2 wrote: »

Sky engineers are not allowed to fix a dish to a chimney using bolts like they normally do on walls.

They may not be allowed to, but they do.

aileth

I'd be nicely asking next door when the dish got installed. If it's recent and coincides with the damage, I'd be going after Sky.

markhig2

phead wrote: »

They may not be allowed to, but they do.

Agreed, but the fact that they are not allowed to is enough reason to have it repaired at their expense.