Our scaffolding blocking neighbours sky dish

[WaxyBean]

We had scaffolding put up in front of our house today ahead of building works starting Friday and likely lasting 6-8 weeks.

Unfortunately this has blocked the neighbours sky signal - not something we had anticipated happening. I became aware of this late this afternoon after the neighbour insisted that our nanny call me at work to sort this.

Since then I have have had the scaffolders back out to see if anything can be moved to improve the signal - it can't. And I have arranged for her dish to be moved onto our scaffolding for the duration of the works - this will be done late Friday/early Saturday as this is the earliest the recommended engineer can be available.

Neighbour says this is unacceptable and her sky needs to be back by tomorrow. Whilst I sympathise I feel have done everything I can to solve this. Her lack of sky is not my biggest priority and I have spent a considerable amount of time today trying to solve this.

So MNers - who is being unreasonable here?

I think everyone has sky go, so she just has to watch on her laptop or tablet for a couple of days rather than her tv. No big deal.

The ndn would have a legal claim in 'nuisance' to those asking the legal basis !!

If she has laptop george
If it's one you can watch anything on. Mine you can't ( no idea what's happened to it, i can do the basics, email, fb, mnet but that's about it)
I also wouldn't if i could, i don't know why i just can't stand watching things on laptops

Allthebest - very specific thanks for that

The NDN should be thanking her lucky stars that the interruption to her sodding Sky signal is so short. If the OP's extension blocked it for good she would be without remedy.

Fuck me, the OP posted on a Wednesday and it should get sorted on Friday/Saturday. Annoying to have no TV for a couple of days but it's just having no TV for a couple of days. YANBU.

I think yabu. It would annoy me if I had things set to record etc. Yes it's not life or death but could be very inconvenient not to use the service she pays for.

I would get it sorted asap. Not wortho piss ing neighbours off. Mine have been doing building work for 5 mnths and it's made me resentful thay they aren't considerate (they did all weekend from 7am 7 days a week). Had to do exams and night shifts with all that going on. So I don't make much effort to keep kids quiet etc.

allthenest nothing the OP is doing, assuming she's doing the building work in accordance with requirements, constitutes a nusience in law. People are not obliged to ensure the continuous availability of all the services their neighbours decide to take advantage of when the neighbour's services relies on access (in this case to a particular uninterrupted satellite signal trajectory) that they have no right to.

Previous posters have linked to the case law that put the right to signal reception on par with the right to a view - I.e. Non existent.

YABU, and INCREDIBLY selfish to say Her lack of sky is not my biggest priority and I have spent a considerable amount of time today trying to solve this

You sound like a very selfish neighbour.

Our neighbours are having building work done and although they are considerate, the builders are not. We had had lots of parking issues with the builders blocking access and then much eye rolling and exaggerated sighing when I ask them to move so I can l get the car out of the street. They are rude and unpleasant.

If they blocked my Sky signal or inconvenienced me in any more ways yes I'd go ballistic.

It might not just be the Sky dish OP - the builders might have pissed her off in a lot of other ways and this is the final straw.

The NDN is Tommy Cooper. She wants her Sky back now.

Just like that.

This is the perfect AIBU. It is chock-full of totally surprising perspectives and deep insights into how other people are thinking that I could never have gleaned just by living next door to them! Thanks for starting it!

YANBU

Glad this is the perfect AIBU. The engineer is putting up a dish on our scaffolding now - so less than 48 hours!

The shaky grasp of the law on here is rather worrying - people could give out that advice in real life! If you're not a lawyer, don't advise your friends. If you are a lawyer, be really careful about advising your friends - you could be liable if it all goes tits up and you've had a substantial involvement and they have relied on your friendly advice!

I'm a lawyer, Apple, and it just makes me love the thread even more to see the various analyses of the issue that people come up with.

She asked whether she was being unreasonable not for legal advice. Some people are taking this far to seriously - it's an open internet forum, and a section purely about opinions. It is probably one of the least appropriate places to expect legal advice,and people getting themselves worked up about the lack of legal knowledge shown by posters expressing their personal opinions are probably the most surprising thing about the thread.

Anyone can say they are anything on an anonymous, open internet forum - and certainly MN seems to be jam packed with lawyers and doctors, teachers and social workers, and almost everyone claims a PhD at the very least...

It's an interesting place to see what other opinions are out there on a subject, but it's like chatting in the pub - people say what they think they once heard or read somewhere, or just what they personally think, nobody is giving out advice they actually expect anyone to ask on, and more fool anyone who mistakes one thing for the other.

It is probably one of the least appropriate places to expect legal advice,and people getting themselves worked up about the lack of legal knowledge shown by posters expressing their personal opinions are probably the most surprising thing about the thread.

There have been a large number of people claiming OP is BU because the neighbour has a right to a Sky signal. Did you miss those?

No Collaborate - I am saying that people can say things like that on AIBU because it is not a place to offer legally binding triple checked watertight free legal advice, it's just shooting the breeze and offering generally off the cuff opinions.

Or have I missed the part of MN's talk guidelines where it says every response to AIBU must be exhaustively fact checked and backed up by case law or appropriate peer reviewed articles?

I find it a bit odd that 2 days without television would cause such stress.

My partner would be pissed if he missed the football.

We have a somewhat frosty relationship - she refused to acknowledge liability when work to her guttering caused a leak in our house (which we paid to fix) and has been a pain throughout the planning process for the work to our house (which incidentally she has already had done to her house).

She is right not to take any liability its the person who did the work on her guttering he is liable for any damages caused. That's why they have insurance you should have a complained to the company they would have gone to their insurance to repair the damage. Its not your neighbours fault.

Don't you have have house insurance they would have contacted the companies insurance and sort it all out for you. Why go into your own pocket to pay for damages done on your property???

Sure, 5. But people chuck around misunderstood terms like "quiet enjoyment" that could easily make the OP look like an utter twat if she said or put them in writing to the neighbour!

giving your opinion is great, that's why this board is here. Being a wiki warrior risks being positively unhelpful!