Need Help To Overcome Nasty Neighbour

[jodevizes]

Hi Guys,
I am not very technically minded so please bear with me. My neighbours trees have now grown such that when the wind blows I have to watch a DVD as the signal breaks up. I have a small Sky dish with I guess a normal set up.
He is being a b*st*rd and telling me he is not going to cut his trees. I know I can sue him and pay a lawyer lots of money, which I don't have, and that will take months.
Is there any way I can move the dish around to get a better signal ? There is also a larger dish from a previous tenant but I suppose that doesn't work or the Sky man would have used that.

Any help would be really appreciated. )(-red

Jo

 

[Topper]

Welcome to the forum jodevizes

Occasionally this problem does crop up, can I suggest you take a picture showing the dish and offending trees and then just the dish and mounting on the house. There may be a solution but a well taken picture often tells a thousand words.

I'll guess now that they are leylandii

_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/61679.stm

A link to a victim support group

 

[Lazarus]

A picture?

Does this cover it?






:-rub

 

[wod]

when your neighbour is out maybe pour some weedkiller or something at the bottom of the tree or even cut it so when the wind blows the tree comes down ?

i have similar problem luckly the trees don't block the signal but are a problem.

 

[jodevizes]

Thank you for swift responses.
Weed killer sounds good, but I heard he sued the neighbour to the left when he tried that trick. Tivu if I tried that I would get a large tree on my head and probably through my window. LOL It is difficult to take pics as it is lashing it down out side. If it stops whilst there is still light I will take the piccies.

 

[Robbo]

With Leylandii if there is a row of them you can effectively force them to cut them down if they are getting ridiculous. ( My neighbour had 7m ones, but not any more!) You don't need a lawyer, just follow the guidelines for applying the High Hedges legislation.

If that is not possible, you can go upwards, side ways or further away, or a combination of all three to get a signal. Usually some place can be found.

 

[satelliteman]

Assume there's no way you can raise the dish a tad or enough for a clear line of sight.
A picture would help.

 

[Dave UK]

Try talking to your council, they can sometimes be very helpful in cases such as these.......honestly!

 

[Nolia]

I have a problem too. My neighbors have a massive hedge. I cant pick up anything after 13'E on my rotating dish!! Now the Sky dish keeps breaking up signal. Sometimes I get some technical message saying fault with channel etc. I called sky today and they just didn't help. B***st*ds! They keep reminding me about bills going up...WHAT A NERVE!!

 

[kenny1234]

Hammer some Copper into tree stump, trees will die in matter of weeks and will have to be
a. Either cut down(due to h & s)
b. Will fall down

I have this info from a reliable source;) I was going to use it on a tree in my very own back garden, but mysteriously it died before I got chance mwah haha ha

 

[Topper]

I heard he sued the neighbour to the left when he tried that trick.

So whatever method you use, if the tree dies you are gonna get it in the neck from the miserable you know what, hence a different approach is needed

 

[jodevizes]

OK This is what it looks like. The trees and the dishes. My current one is the small one.

Not sure about the copper nails because I tried that to kill a nasty Sycamore and it didn't give a dam.

 

[Lazarus]

I have a problem too. My neighbors have a massive hedge. I cant pick up anything after 13'E on my rotating dish!! Now the Sky dish keeps breaking up signal. Sometimes I get some technical message saying fault with channel etc. I called sky today and they just didn't help. B***st*ds! They keep reminding me about bills going up...WHAT A NERVE!!

Whilst I sympathise with your problem, it isn't through any fault of Sky's that your neighbour's hedge is causing it: What were you hoping/expecting that they would do?

 

[Mickha]

If you threatened to cancel Sky might agree to moving your dish, just under your guttering, above the bedroom window, looks a good place, but judging by the size of that hedge you could contact your local council and see if they can do anything.
Unfortunately that would probably lead to bad feeling, and future problems, with your neighbour, so it might be better, in the long run, to just move your dish and see if Sky will either waive the costs or give you a discount.
If not see what someone local will charge, they might be cheaper.

 

[Robbo]

Yes I agree, the tree looks to be a bit away and doesn't seem enormoously high.

Your dishes on the other hand are 'fairly' low, so the problem doesn't appear to be insummountable.

Putting the dishes on the main wall, should solve the problem. Above the gutter on a cranked mast or T&Ks even
more so.


I don't think an independent installer would charge too much to do that for you, it is not a big job TBH.

 

[jodevizes]

Thanks for your input. Sadly which ever way you cut it it is going to cost me money. Sigh.

 

[Analoguesat]

Yup its going to cost you a few pounds - try to get the dish relocated to one side of the hedge ot you are going to end up with the same problem in a few years time if you just raise it. Remember the dish doesnt have to be on the house - due to trees here all my dishes are down the bottom of the garden. I use second hand fence posts banged well in - it works fine with the smaller dishes.

Also remember its not a particularly difficult job to install a dish so you could try DIY - you will get lots of help & advise here & will learn lots for if you have problems in the future.

 

[Longstack]

I see you have a disused 60cm dish next to the sky dish.
It might pay you to get a sat engineer in to use this one, it would give a much stronger signal. It would be very easy to set this dish up your self. You would have to rotate the dish to the same position as the sky dish and also you would have to change the inclination of the arm. This is lower it to about 27deg. Look at the sky dish next to it. The satellite you want is Astra2 at 28deg east. The other problem is you will have to change the LNB to a digital LNB. Any good Satellite supplyer would be able to supply one for a little as £18. To save the problem of running a new cable to the dish just disconect the sky dish cable and run it to the old dish.
Hope this works.

 

[rolfw]

Can you go to dishpointer.com and use it to map the line of sight, so that we can see where the trees are in relation to it?

Also, check how much of the trees are over on your side of the boundary, you have the legal right to cut off anything which overhangs. If there is quite a lot, advise your neighbour that you are going to trim off every last bit which overhangs your land, he may then change his mind about topping them.

 

[chavo]

I vote for the Sky route also, although this is not their fault when the dish was fitted if the engineer had half a brain he would of thought, hmm that tree might block the signal when it blooms i will move the dish!