Neighbours trees interfering with my Sky

[SamW98]

The last few weeks my Sky keeps breaking up. I got a mate who's an engineer to have a look in case there was a fault and he said the reason is that my neighbours have very high trees which have grown and are now directly in the line of where my signal is being received.

So I gave them a knock and, very politely asked if they could just cut the tops down a bit and explained why. The man who lives there looked me up and down and said 'how sad is it that you think watching tv more important than trees that have been there since before I was born' and shut the door

Now I'm not asking him to cut the trees down just cut the top back so I can watch my Sky without it breaking up

AIBU if I now cut the tops back myself? They do overhang into my garden anyway?

@PurpleyBlue

Why can't you move the sky thingy?

@SamW98 doesn't seem to want to answer this question. As @Okcookie said, the OP has been told she is being unreasonable by almost everybody, and doesn't like it . She wants people to agree with her, and is therefore not answering any questions she doesn't like.

Moving your sky dish will mean:
Better relationship with neighbours
You (and it will be you) don’t have the expense of hiring a tree surgeon
The tree gets to carry on growing
You can get better signal on Sky

No brainer

@DynamoKevi I bow down to your clearly superior sky knowledge.

We had the same problem. I can't imagine asking my neighbour to cut back his tree. The Sky engineer first raised the dish, but then came back 6 months later and moved the dish to the front of the house. Problem solved.

We had the same problem and got the dish moved.

He’s right, you’re wrong.

Get Sky round. When we moved in a few years ago and had Sky fitted the guy had a scanner thingy with him and had to find the right place to put the receiver to avoid the big tree a few houses down. They’re used to it.

[quote Returnoftheowl]@DynamoKevi I bow down to your clearly superior sky knowledge.[/quote]

you do know trees are alive (like us) and grow?

who do you expect to go up there and cut the tops off anyway?

did you offer to pay a professional to do it?

I was in the same situation, I relocated the dish. Sorry YABU.

@FlaminEckVera I see, thanks.

OP I don't think anyone is going to think you are reasonable (unless they hate trees) especially without a reason you can't move the sky dish?

He sounds like an utter dick!
I actually would prefer to look at the TV rather than a tree.

Surely this is a reverse

@TheQueef

That's you that is.

Haha!

To quote my ed, 'Let the tree be!'

Although if you can move it I would do so.
Never lift a finger to help him or make his life easier though

@Liverbird77

He sounds like an utter dick! I actually would prefer to look at the TV rather than a tree.

I take what I said back

We've had a sort of similar issue - we get on very well with our neighbour, who has been kind in trimming back the branches that get in the way, but she still has a similar attitude of 'trees and nature are so important and it's only telly'. I don't see why we can't have and enjoy both. I love trees very much, but they do sometimes need to be maintained and in suitable places. I don't see why you have the right to just plant a tree and leave it to grow untamed, regardless of the effects on other people.

Her tree was way smaller when we moved in. Our own trees were growing crazy high and threatening to interfere with the telegraph wires, so we chopped them back down to a much more reasonable height - seemed the obvious, sensible thing to do.

In order to prevent the potential issue in the future, we're going to have our Sky dish moved well away; but I don't think you can blame people for not knowing 10/20/30 years in advance that a tree would be planted or grow massive, when deciding where to locate their dish. Even after we've moved it, who knows who might plant a fast-growing tree somewhere in the street that grows and blocks the signal out again?

Not everybody has fibre in their areas - plenty of rural areas and small towns don't.

We can't have Sky or Freesat at all due to the position of our house in relation to huge trees. Good job we are in a fibre optic area!
And trees can be cut right now, these were done today by tree surgeons perfectly legally.

It's a tree, not a fecking poodle you pop in to the groomer.

Obviously they need to be watched and trimmed if under power lines.

We had a couple of tall, mature trees topped recently. It cost nearly £1k.

I would think of alternatives.

Why on earth should the OP incur an expense of getting the dish moved. It's the neighbours fault so they should pay or trim the trees.

Did you offer to pay for it ? I can't see they would do it just for your sky signal when it's not benefit for them and a big cost.

@Rillington

Why on earth should the OP incur an expense of getting the dish moved. It's the neighbours fault so they should pay or trim the trees.

It's the op's problem. The neighbour doesn't have a problem 🤷🏻‍♀️

I agree with your NDN, sorry OP...

However if they are overhanging your garden you can chop back, the overhang as long as there is no TPO on them.

But he's kinda right , trees grow and clearly he loves them, so why would he mangle his trees for a sky box when it's cost less for you to resite it . It isn't a problem for him unless there is some other statutory reason his trees are disturbing your property.

I feel for you as it is annoying from your POV but ..., trees... we need trees...

Service visits are free if you've got a Sky Q box. We didn't pay anything to have the dish moved (twice).

I'm on the trees' side. They've been here a fair bit longer than Sky, and aid our oxygen for free.