My dishes, where to put the second one.

benwiddowson82

benwiddowson82

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Hi guys,

i've attached a photo of two of my 3 dishes. The motorised one sits on a ground pole thats been cemented behind the wall. The much larger heavier white one stills sits on the decking which is starting to annoy the other half. I can't mount it to the house as it would look awful so my choice is a second ground mount or mount a bracket and pole to the wall. Any suggestions on which would be better. Its VERY VERY heavy.
Ignore the messy garden and the random blue sheet, it took a battering in recent bad weather and needs cleaning up.

Thanks

Ben
 

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If your happy the wall is strong enough use a floor mount bolted through at least three courses of brick, although four is better.

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You can get a griplock compound from Screwfix which will allow you to use allthread with nuts and washers. Just drill the holes into the top of the wall, fill them with griplock and then knock the all thread into the hole, fit the mount to the wall and screw the nuts down just enough for them touch the mount.

Leave for 24 hours and then tighten the nuts to FT (F**king tight), mount dish and line up. I've installed 10 tonne two poster car ramps into a garage concrete floor with this method and they haven't gone anywhere so it should work fine for your dish.
 
Thanks i'll have a look into it over the weekend. I'm really not sure on the wall but there is only one way to find out i guess :). The Tooway system was a spur of the moment purchase because i wanted to have a play with it. I know it was likely to be heavier than a normal dish but didn't expect it to be as heavy and bulky as it is.
 
I think OP means a L-bracket on the side of the wall. (but that's just my first thought).

If OP's other half is ok with digging in the shrubbery on top of the wall (at least the first pole went in), I would myself dig a whole, and concrete in a new pole from the top.
That would mean that the achoring if the pole is a decent size concrete block, not just a couple of bricks possibly held loosely together by mortar.
But it depends on how the wall is made... it coud be concreted in, in which case a wall bracket might be better!
 
An L bracket wouldn't last 5 minutes unless its rather a meaty one as with the weight of that dish coupled with windload it could quite posibly fail or just rip itself out of the wall.

Its also likely the brick would have holes in it as most in the UK seem to be produced that way. House-brick-006.webp
When you bolt into the side of the hole you end up with nothing to bolt to.

Its one of those things when mounting dishes, one person will always say one method is better than another, i just dont like using elbow brackets as i've seen far to many of them fail in the past. I've never had a floor mount fail upto now, even ones bolted to the top of a wall as 40cms of allthread chemically bonded to the wall not only holds the dish in place it also reinforces the structure of the wall in the same way re-bar does.
 
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