Dishcomm wrote:
A little education about contractors...BTW doesn't matter what trade. This is done all the time..The guy that you hired and wanted $750 or whatever...He wanted to get out of there. In other words he looked at a job that he felt was going to be a nightmare so he over bid it hoping to chase you away..Obviously he was successful...
One thing I can't understand though is if all you needed was for one dish to go to the front part of thre roof, what the hell was the big deal?..A little education about contractors...BTW doesn't matter what trade. This is done all the time..The guy that you hired and wanted $750 or whatever...He wanted to get out of there. In other words he looked at a job that he felt was going to be a nightmare so he over bid it hoping to chase you away..Obviously he was successful...
One thing I can't understand though is if all you needed was for one dish to go to the front part of thre roof, what the hell was the big deal?..
Actually I got the quote the following day from the office after the installer went back and reported the situation. I don't think he was trying to avoid it although he told me that he wouldn't be doing the trenching. I'm surprised that they wouldn't have something like a ditch witch to lay this cable underground. I could have the tree cut down for the $750 (actual quote from tree service).
As for the new site, it was not known that this would work, till I thought of it after the 5th visit. I knew nothing about sat. locations when the dish was installed. It was implanted in the same place as the old SD dish. It worked till the leaves bloomed. Then came the revolving door of installers who merely confirmed that 119 was not being received and giving me conflicting info. on what to do. So I did a little reading on forums like these, bought a compass, did a rough elevation of the offending tree and reasoned that if I stepped back to the front of the house, I will be gaining in elevation on that tree and keeping everything else about the same. I asked the $750 installer to check this out with his inclinometer. He told me it might work, can't be sure till you get up there with a dish and even asked "why didn't someone think of this?"
I am entirely unimpressed by Mastec and D* handling of the matter is mind boggling. What really pisses me off is that after each visit, I'll get a phone survey from some outfit from India asking me totally irrelevant questions like "was the installer wearing a badge and dressed properly"