Sky Dishes and cables queried with Sol

m0bov

Hi, a property I am in the process of purchasing (end terraced, leasehold) has a sky dish on the roof, a big dish in the communal garden next to the house and lots of cabling, one of which is loosely run across the front door step.

I have investigated and got my sol on the case, I have found that:
The management company have no record of permission for the dishes;
Have written to the block about the issue of messy cabling;
The vendor states they dont have a TV and know nothing about it;
One of the sat cables goes across my property and goes into the neighbours

The rest of the block seem to have cable, which I am happy to have if needed.

My sol has said they will:
Write to the agents to confirm permission is in place for the dishes if needed;
Confirm ownership of the dishes and cabling.

I want to be confident if I move in and snip the cables and chuck the dish, the neighbours won't be running out and kick off! If its a communal system, would the agents have a record of this? I even phoned sky who could not help. The sol said to let her do the enquires as they can be relied upon, as I was going to knock on some doors. The property has been empty for a while so possibly the neighbours might have taken advantage. All speculation at the moment.

Anyone got any comments or suggestions or experiance of this? I feel the vendor is pleading ignorance to it all.

agrinnall

You might be able to cut the cables but disposing of the dish will almost certainly start a dispute with whoever owns it. I'd wait to hear what your solicitor finds before doing anything further.

m0bov

Yes, should I be expecting the vendor/vendors sol to provide a definitive answer? Should they be knocking on doors to find out what's what? The cable is silly as its draped over the door mat and is loose, so I pointed it out as soon as I viewed the house!

eddddy

If the seller's reply via your solicitor is that the dish/cable belong to the property you are buying, and you are free to remove them... you can do so.

Then, if it transpires that the dish/cable don't really belong to the property, and you have to pay to have them put back (ideally on whoever's roof uses them), you can claim the cost as damages from the seller.


There's no harm in making additional enquiries through Sky, neighbours, etc - but you can't rely on the replies.

tim123456789

having a dish on the side of a house does not equal SKY

In order to work out if it is a communal dish, or a single use dish you need to count the number of cables coming out of it


If there are 4 it is a shared dish.


If there is one or two it is a single user

HTH

tim

m0bov

I can only see one very thick cable coming down the gable wall. There is also a large dish on the ground again, just one thinner cable. So far I have only found one sat cable socket in the house. It might be the one on the roof is free sat. I don't care about the one on the ground as its a communual garden border, its the cable going across to next door and the roof dish I am hoping I can find out about!

G_M

Seems to me you've stirred up a hornets nest and guaranted that by the time you move in your new neighbours will already hate you!

steampowered

I want to be confident if I move in and snip the cables and chuck the dish, the neighbours won't be running out and kick off!

If you do that the neighbours will be kicking off I'm sure, whether they had permission for the dish or not ...

m0bov

G_M wrote: »

Seems to me you've stirred up a hornets nest and guaranted that by the time you move in your new neighbours will already hate you!

Thats fine, I'd rather that than have them walk all over me

m0bov

steampowered wrote: »

If you do that the neighbours will be kicking off I'm sure, whether they had permission for the dish or not ...

I understand that, but I'm sure you would'nt be happy if I bolted a dish to your roof and ran cables up and round your house.

AnotherJoe

m0bov wrote: »

Hi, a property I am in the process of purchasing (end terraced, leasehold) has a sky dish on the roof, a big dish in the communal garden next to the house and lots of cabling, one of which is loosely run across the front door step.

I have investigated and got my sol on the case, I have found that:
The management company have no record of permission for the dishes;
Have written to the block about the issue of messy cabling;
The vendor states they dont have a TV and know nothing about it;
One of the sat cables goes across my property and goes into the neighbours

The rest of the block seem to have cable, which I am happy to have if needed.

My sol has said they will:
Write to the agents to confirm permission is in place for the dishes if needed;
Confirm ownership of the dishes and cabling.

I want to be confident if I move in and snip the cables and chuck the dish, the neighbours won't be running out and kick off! If its a communal system, would the agents have a record of this? I even phoned sky who could not help. The sol said to let her do the enquires as they can be relied upon, as I was going to knock on some doors. The property has been empty for a while so possibly the neighbours might have taken advantage. All speculation at the moment.

Anyone got any comments or suggestions or experiance of this? I feel the vendor is pleading ignorance to it all.

I dont think that's what you meant.

Did you mean, they wont have any legal comeback? They can kick off irrespective of who is right or wrong.Why dont you just knock on the neighbours door, say you are buying the property next to them, and the cables and dish on what will be your property will be removed, did they want to contact Sky (or whoever) to have it repositioned or are they happy for you to take it down and give them a bill for the removal?

Then see if they kick off