To ask neighbour to remove sat dish?

[Girlincognito1]

Just walked out of my door thus morning and noticed a freaking satellite dish attached to the front of our house!! I've come to work to calm down a bit but I can't believe the brass neck! Would I be unreasonable to go around and ask them to remove it and make good the holes?? What if they decline??

Just remove the few screws that will be holding it to the wall, and leave the dish and bracket just beyond your boundary, either on the neighbour's roof or dangling off their wall.

The "cut the cable" comments were to someone where their dish belongs to a house 5 doors down. It would be one hell of a dangle to get it on their property!

The neighbour in the thread you mention had a dish perfectly legally attached to their own house. It bears no resemblance to this whatsoever.

The neighbour in the thread you mention had a dish perfectly legally attached to their own house. It bears no resemblance to this whatsoever.
Yet when the OP legally attached scaffolding to their property a lot of posters criticised her for having thereby blocked the neighbour's signal. The underlying principle is the same - whether your neighbour should be restricted in how they use their own property (by exercising their freedom to allow or disallow any structure or equipment on their land, subject to planning laws) irrespective of how that interferes with your satellite tv signal.

We live in a terraced house. It is obviously on our property.

If I were to cut the wire or pull the dish down, that would be criminal damage on my part.

Will it definitely be Sky or do other companies have dishes?

Sky are shit. They made a 9 inch hole in the plaster work inside on our house and left 12 inches of drill bit sticking out of our wall and then we're all surprised when we asked them to fix it.

Oh lord, don't get involved with Sky - you will lose the will to live. It's entirely up to your neighbour to get it removed and made good.

It could possibly be freesat, and not sky.

I would think that the cable running from the dish attaches like a standard coaxial cable (screws/twists on), so if you simply undid the cable, then no damage is done. Of course they may reattach it, but could be an awkward situation if you were to step out your door while they are stretching out trying to reattach the cable ;-)

Seriously though, I think it's very possible it was an error on the part of the engineer. Ask politely, but do be firm on its removal and any making good needing done.

Go round, ask politely if they'd noticed their dish was attached to your wall and ask them to get it corrected. If they refuse, remove (NOT CUT) the cables, and unscrew the dish and hand it back to them/leave it outside their door.

Yeah, I really need to push the issue with dh. The guy whose dish it is is moving soon so it needs doing really, if only to disrupt his last few weeks of TV viewing! In fact, I might just arrange for someone to come round to cut the cable while dh is at work, he'd be none the wiser.

I would check its not a mistake first. I've not experienced it first had but at least one of our near neighbours had a similar experience only to find Sky had put the dish on the wrong house. Their neighbours were so hacked off with dealing with Sky over that that they cancelled the contract.

If its not a mistake they need to shift it and make good.

The homeowner would have had to have been there to let them in the house for the fitting, so they darned well know where it is!
I'd give them 24 hours to remove it and make good any damage, or do what a PP says and remove yourself. What a bloody cheek.

First off try not to fall out with your neighbours. go around and ask them if it is their dish and if so were they aware that it was being affixed to your property without your consent. Hopefully they will apologise and sort it out.

if they don't then you are well within your rights to remove it from your property and ask them to make good the damage.

I am struggling to see how you can be liable for criminal damage to something on your own land especially something that was put their without your permission.

Yes it's on your house. They don't have permission. I wouldn't go round being angry as it might be a mistake by the engineer rather than them being awful.

Maybe pop round and say 'im not sure if youve realised but the engineer has actually put your dish on my house. Could you call them to get it moved to the correct property' and then see what happens.

If nothing changes then call Sky yourself.

I actually assumed it was one of those dishes you can buy yourself to access channels around the world, When we had Sky installed, they asked us where we wanted the dish installed.

OP, does the dish look like one of Sky's standard small black dishes?

The homeowner would have had to have been there to let them in the house for the fitting, so they darned well know where it is!

Letting someone in is not the same as looking to see where the dish is.

Follow the wire, knock on the door, tell them (don't ask) the dish has been put on the wrong house and needs to be moved ASAP. If they get arsey, let them know that you'll do it for them as it's on your property, as in, you'll cut the wire and unbolt it for them if thats what they would prefer.

JaneEyre70

Yeah you would think but this is exactly what happened a few doors down from us. Two groups of people involved, one fitting the dish on day X (householder out), the other connecting up on day Y (when householder planned to be there). Day X group got the wrong address.

I would also have assumed it wasn't possible to start work without someone being there.

If I were to cut the wire or pull the dish down, that would be criminal damage on my part.

Unscrewing the dish from the wall does not damage it.

It might not be sky. Is it bigger than a normal sky dish?

When it's anything to do with neighbours, I tend to find that the friendly approach tends to get better results than going in all guns blazing when it comes to continued relations - mainly because most people respond well to a quick knock on the door and chat about an issue as it gives them a chance to explain their side without judgement ... if you go in all guns blazing or acting before you talk to them and it was a genuine error or something they didn't know about, you're the one coming off as the bad guy in the situation, not them.

Not to mention, in the future it might be you that is doing something to unknowingly annoy/inconvenience your neighbour and I'd want them to speak to me before they escalated things, but if I've set the precedence of hostile negotiations, then I could hardly blame them for doing the same, and I'd rather not start a neighbourhood war.

Hopefully the neighbour will be able to explain it's just an honest mistake and get it sorted.

DratThatCat - good luck! Let us know how you get on!

They didn't answer the door. I'm going to write a note, what shall I say?

Hey Fuckwit,
Please remove that monstrosity from my house. .
Regards, irate gun toting neighbour. . .

Dear neighbour
Your satellite dish has been attached to my house
I would like you to remove it and make good any damage within 7 days
Please feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss further
Yours sincerely

Can we have a diagram?