How to remove wiring from a sky dish

bjbyorkshire

My thoughts too, but I just need to sell the house and keep the peace while I own it.

It's over to them after that.

Owain_Moneysaver

There is no technical problem with disconnecting the cables.

The problem is a legal one - and this is why the purchasor's solicitor is insisting this is sorted out before purchase.

Your neighbour has a legal right, granted by you, to use your dish. Her cables are her property and if you disconnect or cut them you are damaging them, which is a criminal offence (for which you could be arrested and interviewed under caution by the police), and may also be a civil nuisance. You want to revoke the legal right granted to her, but whether that is possible depends on the terms of the original agreement (which I presume was only verbal). Your neighbour might believe it to be irrevocable i.e. permanent and if you disconnect/remove her cables she might believe she has the right to get this reinstated at your cost.

To do this legally you need to serve notice on your neighbour to remove the cables and if she doesn't you'd then need to go to court and get a court order for her to remove her cables from your dish. Such a court order would override the existing private agreement.

The buyer's solicitor wants you to get this sorted out to prevent their client from getting involved in any future dispute with the neighbour.

It may be quickest and easiest to give your neighbour the dish and move it or pay for it to be moved by a satellite fitter to her wall - assuming there is somewhere on her house that it can get a signal.

bjbyorkshire

Thanks Owain, so, supposing we dismantled the dish with her cables intact but ours disconnected, then coax her cables over the porch to her side so that she now has the dish, would the next person in our house who bought a sky package automatically be provided with a new dish as part of their package? I don't think I included a sky dish as part of our sellers inventory, I would have to ask our solicitors about this.

Doing someone a favour to be a kind neighbour can certainly have ramifications. In actual fact it was our now deceased daughter who granted the permission for this arrangement when she lived in this house. We carried on with ought a thought as it was no problem to us. We have had the property tenanted for 3 years and now want to sell it.

I did verbally tell the neighbour at the time I told her we were going to sell in September 15, that if there was an issue then she might have to make other arrangements but it is only at the 11th hour that it has come from the solicitors that they need this arrangement to end before sale.

tonyh66

speak to the neighbour again, explain the situation and offer them the entire sky dish. I also doubt that unscrewing the cables constitutes criminal damage, if the neighbour doesn't play, unscrew the cables remove them from the wall and place them back on the neighbours property.

Rubidium

The dish is your property, the cables belong to your neighbour.

You gave the neighbour adequate notice to make alternative arrangements and the deadline has now passed. You have extended the deadline but I believe that they are assuming that you won't actually do anything and that their cables will remain connected.

The original verbal agreement no longer exists as you are now the owner and your buyer quite rightly does not wish to continue with this arrangement.

It is your neighbour who needs to sort out their problem at their expense not you, to allow you to sell your property.

They will have to make alternative arrangements if the cables are disconnected from your dish!

bjbyorkshire

Thanks both, there is no problem with getting the cables to her property, they are low enough down to handle.

I think from our last conversation that she knows a chap who used to work for Sky who is doing this for her unofficially he has already put a bracket on her wall. I just think that they are sourcing a sky dish from somewhere without buying from Sky, to save money, hence it hasn't happened within the time frame I gave her.

She originally couldn't pick up a signal from her property because a huge tree up on the banking above the houses blocks her signal but we can get one from ours.

Let's wait until Monday and see if anything happens over the weekend.

Does a new Sky package include a new dish.

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Removing the cables by carefully disconnecting them from the dish would never be regarded as "damage". However, cutting them or pulling them down is certainly not recommended.

The original plan of disconnecting the cables and throwing them back onto the neighbour's property is likely the best solution, assuming the neighbour doesn't take the required action within the agreed timescale.

bjbyorkshire wrote: »

Does a new Sky package include a new dish.

Yes, but the neighbour is obviously not a new Sky customer.

tonyh66

give them the dish as well..................

pappa_golf

lend them a ladder as well

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tonyh66 wrote: »

give them the dish as well..................

Probably not worth having.

I wonder how the neighbour is going to continue with Sky anyhow. Doesn't a tree still prevent reception?