If that involves drilling holes in corners of chimney then yes. If it involves lashing then not so bad. Dishes on chimneys, in general, are always bad news. Steve
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Permission for TV aerial.
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Yes.
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Steve brought next idea :
There is usually no good reason to install a dish on a chimney, they work just as well at ground level.
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I would never install an heavy load close to the upper courses of bricks by drilling - the closer you get to the top, the less weight of brick there is above to hold it together. Lashing kits improve the strength and stability of a chimneys brick work.
Remember - The easy way to demolish a wall is to start at the top and work down, where they are weakest.
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I quite agree - there are many times that he speaks as if he is an authority; for what he has said to be then totally rebutted by someone who truly knows what they are saying.
An accepted rule on the group should be: if George says don't do it this way, then that will probably be the best way to do it (and vice versa).
He's a liability (and a f****it)
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The f****it is you,I mean why are you using two aliases on here? do you have a personality disorder or something?
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you can't see them on the chimney, walking past the house.
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Indeed, the only good reason is where a terrace of houses points more or less exactly at the satellite so that a signal cannot be received from either wall.
Even then there are better alternatives such as T&K brackets on wall with pole to take dish just above roof where a clear line of sight to satellite exists. Or better still a ground mount somewhere in their garden that did have a clear sight to the satellite.
A lot of people actually want them up on chimney out of sight. I could normally put people off the idea when I likened it to them trying to hold an umbrella out of a car window when the car was doing 70mph. This simple analogy helped even the most mechanically inept of them to be able to grasp the magnitude of the forces acting on their chimney in a storm!
Steve
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In some local authorities it is strictly against planning regulations to have them higher than the ridge/roof line.
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In article , George scribeth thus
There you go the brit attitude to satellite dishes..
Q. "What's that thing hanging on the end of a satellite dish?"
A. " A council house!"...
Bollocks. Depends which side of the road there're on!...
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Our Sky analogue dish was located at the front, pointing along the house wall. When the installer came along to install digital, he simply replaced the analogue dish with the digital one - which then lost much of its signal looking up via the eaves of the house. I ended up having to move it around the back, onto the side of a single storey utility room wall, about 8 foot out from the house wall, to get a full signal.
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There's also another good reason to install a dish on the chimney.....in my case I did it because the little scrotes next door used it for target practice!
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Council house dwellers, the poor people who can't afford other types of worthy entertainment for themselves and their kids. Prime fodder for murdoch to exploit - and money to pay for 'family' subscriptions comes almost straight out of a family's income support budget, after the rent.
Shows how evil murdoch really is...
;-(
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Sorry you feel that way.... Surely you haven't misunderstood what I wrote!!!
/me shakes head
It was NOT mean't to be a dig at dwellers...
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Umm.. why?
He has a product/service.
Some people seem to want to buy it and have the money to do so.
That doesn't, of itself, make him evil, neither is there any exploitation.
Nobody is saying to said family that they have to buy a satellite subscription before they receive their handout.
As a taxpayer, I find it irritating that people that I am funding are wasting money on crap. However, that is a government issue for not policing the expenditure by providing the income support in the form of rent and supermarket vouchers as opposed to cash. I would direct my complaints there.
Equally, I don't think that this is a new phenomenon either - it has existed ever since the Idiot's Lantern was invented.
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I'm not a Council house dweller or a tenant of any sort, but on their behalf........you're a self opinionated pile of s**te !
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Some people can choose what they like for daytime entertainment, but these entertainment sources cost varying amounts of effort when other factors such as travel, tickets and dedication of time are taken into consideration. BSkyB's services (and until recently same through cable) are a cheaper alternative to that, and for lower income households a necessary expense (especially if with kids) on top of the rent - such is the power of murdoch marketing. Keeps people inside, and dumbs down the next generation.
The icing on the cake is the type of on-channel advertising that is targetted to BSkyB viewers being mainly of the "loan consolidation" or "cheaper home/car insurance" or "compensation claims". Then there is the er... "programming"... :-(
BSkyB makes an obscene amount of profit on the backs of other peoples misfortunes...
The alternative to BSkyB services is of course the wonderful multi-channel Freeview service. murdoch does not like that, and would much rather Freeview was dismantled, along with the BBC and it's plans for FreeSat. TiVo was also a victim intially marketted exclusively through BSkyB but then abandoned for the inferior but money making Sky+ tradegy.
Competition was meant to bring consumer choice. Choice is a nasty word to murdoch - he wants the playing field to himself. We are all paying.
No, I'm not saying that either.
No, deal with the rat first....
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What has income got to do with it? Plenty of affluent sattelite dish owners around where I live.
What have kids got to do with it? In most households I know with a Sky sub, it's the Dad's who want it for the sport. Kids are too busy terrorising the local pensioners.
I bet you think they eat tripe as well. You certainly write it.
MBQ
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"What do you call that little box attached to a satellite dish?"
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I can't write anymore without becoming insulting to those that have become attached to this BSkyB junk.
So I won't.
Each to his own...