Chimney mount question for Dish?

[Highgear]

The installer is comming out on Sunday. Do they have a chimney mount option or is this something I can pick up at a place like Radio shack?

[joedol]

He may have one but I wouldn't count on it.
Will he be able to get a good ground with the dish on the chimney?

[Highgear]

He may have one but I wouldn't count on it.
Will he be able to get a good ground with the dish on the chimney?

The grounding pole is actually on that side of the house. The D* dish is on the opposite side mounted to my newer roof. D* didn't have one at the time.

[boba]

Is it a brick chimney? Yes use TAPCON screws right into the brick using the standard mounting foot. ZOf course he will need a hammer drill to drill with.

[Bobby]

Is it a brick chimney? Yes use TAPCON screws right into the brick using the standard mounting foot. ZOf course he will need a hammer drill to drill with.

That's the way mine was installed back in '98.

[stoney]

my first dish was in an apartment complex. I could not drill into anything so I got chimney mount from radio shack. It had an angled bracket that goes on the corner of the chimney with two straps that went around it. I really liked this mount in fact later when I moved out of the apartment I used it on my parents house.

[Bob Haller]

chimney mounts are royally bad idea.

the dish will vibrate in the wind and can loosen masonary aroundf chimney cap and bricks.

I told my neighor this, he didnt believe me a big storm removed the last few feet of his chimney, the dish hung from its wiring.

he relocated the dish to a easy to reach place on his deck.

the dish vibrating can crackk the chimney cap, allowing rain water to get between liner and bricks. if you live in a area that freezes the trapped water freezes expands and the liner breaks and falls in blocking flue.

CO2 poisiniing can kill.

if you have a chimney mount climb up there once a year and inspect everything espically the cap, around the liner. this can only be seen from above.

[navychop]

I believe some have posted here that Dish no longer allows chimney mounts.

You might also consider an eave mount, if you don't want roof penetrations.

[Bobby]

Bob, Like I said earlier, I've had two chimney mounts with Tapcon screws for 11 years and I have had zero issues with it in all that time. To add to that I also have a 2 Radio Shack strap type chimney mounts that hold up my Channel Master 4228 antenna. We get wind here all the time, like daily, because we are just 30 miles from the Pacific Ocean. In those years we have had many episodes of gale force wind as well. Much ado about nothing......

[Bob Haller]

Bob, Like I said earlier, I've had two chimney mounts with Tapcon screws for 11 years and I have had zero issues with it in all that time. To add to that I also have a 2 Radio Shack strap type chimney mounts that hold up my Channel Master 4228 antenna. We get wind here all the time, like daily, because we are just 30 miles from the Pacific Ocean. In those years we have had many episodes of gale force wind as well. Much ado about nothing......

thats all well and good BUT a bad cap nearly killed me and my grandma years ago. a friend who happended to be a volunteer fireman stopped and recognized the symptoms, saving our life.

now ours wasnt caused by a dish but they definetely vibrate in the wind, and that can cause cracking........

and how far up is your dish the nearer the top the better the chance of troubles.

let alone dish getting contaminated by chinmey exhaust....... espically wood fires

so relax if you want but a roofer i know reported lots of chimneys get rebuilt after being dished..............

this probably explains why E doesnt do chimney mounts.

as long as anyone can get line of site for the dish theres no advantage to extra height, it just makes service harder, and snow removal a pain.

after all the satellite is at 22,300 miles how much does 30 feet help?