believe malicious neighbour cut my sky signal

marcus59

Last Wednesday I knocked because their feral toddler was making even more noise than usual, incessant jumping up and down and non-stop running on my ceiling, happens from 9-9 every day since I've lived here unless the little blighter stays with her real dad. Anyway I asked them to try and stop it happening all the time as it was having a negative impact on my health.
They are both home all day and have no excuses, anyway he came down to my flat a few minutes later and said I'd upset her. I replied I was just communicating the problem.
I went back to watching champions league and very soon picture starting breaking up then I started losing channels. By Thursday morning I'd lost all my sky channels. Coincidence I thought, then I realised that mine was the only set affected in the block, so management company wouldn't come out, nor would sky to start with as they said symptoms were of a communal dish/cable failure. I phoned sky again and had a rant; resulting in a fast engineer appointment for today (Sunday), my neighbour asked if I'd got it fixed yet yesterday and I mentioned emergency sky engineer was coming today (Sunday). Guess what? Early Sunday morning and all is back to normal BEFORE the engineer had a chance to visit!! Another coincidence - don't think so do you?
I'm going to front it up with the engineer re. my suspicion and see what he says. I don't have any other explanation other than a malicious act from upstairs. What should I do next?

McKneff

Do nothing, you have no proof.


Sky may charge you if the engineer comes out and finds nothing wrong.....

marcus59

McKneff wrote: »

Do nothing, you have no proof.


Sky may charge you if the engineer comes out and finds nothing wrong.....

No proof? The communal satellite system was working fine throughout the block and my box could still pick up terrestrial tv, planner and catch-up tv, what exactly does that leave as an explanation other than sabotage?


Good point though, I won't mention my suspicion to the engineer because as you say it could compromise my free call and my refund for 11 days lost viewing, but I still want the system's health checked out as I've been without sky (on my tv) for 11 days. I'll let the engineer come to his own conclusion.


I'm due to move soon anyway, I will take this further as a non resident.

peachyprice

Maybe the 'feral' toddler is up until 9pm because the volume of your incessant watching of TV keeps him awake.

Just sayin'.

marcus59

peachyprice wrote: »

Maybe the 'feral' toddler is up until 9pm because the volume of your incessant watching of TV keeps him awake.

Just sayin'.

You couldn't be more wrong if you tried. These flats are new build with good soundproofing - nobody can hear anybody's tv at any time and I resent the accusation that mine was on too loud as well.
This site normally provides useful, constructive comments; I guess I've just been unlucky this morning, or is it toddlers can do no wrong?
Anyway the engineer has been and he believes it likely somebody has been tampering too simply because the signal returned on the morning of his visit.
No charges to me and 11 days refund from sky, then I'll make an official complaint once I've moved out, because if these toddler-owning morons are capable of doing that then they're capable of doing worse.

st999

Is the cable accessible to your neighbour?


A drawing pin stuck into the cable for a day or 2 then removed can cause intermittent problems.

[Deleted User]

Well I remember our "neighbour" some years back cutting our aerial cable and attaching it to his own TV next door. We didn't actually notice straight away because it wasn't our main TV.

Our "neighbour" wasn't even apologetic about it when I followed the course of the cable attached to our aerial and found it fed straight into his front room.