Installer wants 80 dollars for new 5 LNB dish mount!!

[Jimbo]

Agree fully. In fact, my installation was not done by DirecTV. While I had "engineered" the 2" x 10" myself, well before the DirecTV installer showed up, he refused to install the dish as it was too high and too steep of a roof (had to stand on roof to reach fascia location) for him and his supervisor agreed. I found a private installer and we installed the Slimline a few weeks later. My comment was more about fascia boards not being strong enough. The other point I'd like to make is that my home fix cost me all of $10. All I needed was the board already had the primer, the paint, and the deck screws.

Can you reach the dish easily ?
I would not have done your this way, if possible.
I don't know where you live, but how do you cleans snow and ice from your dish when nessasary ?

edit: Never mind, I looked after I posted and see your in Texas, so you better not have the issues we have up here

Jimbo

[randyk47]

Jimbo - Indeed snow and ice are not problems here in San Antonio. In the 5 winters we've lived here we have had one ice storm but compared to what we experienced in Northern Virginia it was nothing. Didn't have the Slimline that winter but it wasn't heavy enough to impact the 3 LNB we were using. You do bring up a good subject though and that's the access to the dish. Quite frankly it's not ideal in terms of me being able to readily get to it for fine tuning if it happens to get knocked out of alignment. Locating it where we did was driven by LOS, access to the attic where the house cables all come together, and even higher location options. Pole mounting is not an option here as I live pretty much on solid limestone. Point in case was my neighbor who bought trees for $80 a piece but paid $250 a piece to have the holes jack hammered out. Not to mention the pole would have to be more or less in the middle of my front yard. My own preferences, my wife's input and the HOA kind of make that a non-starter.