Aerial noises - but it's not my aerial!

Jmoo

So I feel like I'm constantly whinging on here at the moment but I'm trying to get quite a lot of issues rectified in a flat I've recently moved into.

One of the issues was to do with a wobbly aerial on the roof. It transpires this aerial doesn't belong to the building I'm living in, and is most likely belonging to a neighbouring property. However, some premises are empty (not actually flats) and it's been hard trying to get action on anything with these (environmental health did eventually get someone to put in a new window when it got blown out!).

The wobbly aerial - I think - is the reason why on windy days I'm hearing a lot of noise coming down to my property from the chimney. I think it could be knocking the chimney and the noise reverberating. As I'm a top floor flat with my bedroom directly under I don't think anyone else is suffering. I'm not sure who I can contact about this other than perhaps the council?

Annoyingly my TV engineer is aware it's not mine and won't let me pay him to look into it.

davidmcn

Jmoo wrote: »

Annoyingly my TV engineer is aware it's not mine and won't let me pay him to look into it.

Eh? If you want the owner to deal with it then someone's going to have to follow the cable to identify whose it is!

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep...understandable he won't touch someone else's property. But - he should tell you exactly who the "someone else" is (ie by following that cable).

Davesnave

Get another engineer in who isn't such a jobsworth. Tell him (her?) what you want in advance, which is an ID of where the wire goes, and probably a quick tightening-up of whatever's loose, if that's all that's required.

The council won't care.

cloo

Are you sure it's not just chimney noise? We have one bedroom where there's a blocked fireplace and you get a sort of moaning noise down the chimney on windy nights, which I think can be solved by some sort of cap on the chimney pots.

m0bov

Speak to the managing agents or freeholder, or if your a tenant, you landlord.

G_M

Either

1) identify the owner (follow cable?) and deal with them
2) contact freeholder/managing agent of the building
3) disconnect/remove it and see if anyone does anything
4) tighten it or move it to stop it vibrating - use a different engineer or get an odd-kob-man with a ladder

Jmoo

Well the only thing I could see from outside was the reflector part swinging in the wind and this was clearly clanking. I did originally assume it was next door but that's an empty property, it seems unlikely to be anything else.