Already stated we run all of the cables ourselves. We have red-brown water struck finish brick which is no longer available. It was manufactured in 1894 and is no longer manufactured because the manufacturing process causes more than 90% product failure out of the kiln. That's the nature of the brick, but it has an incredible matte surface which looks like it was glazed. It also has tiny pin holes in the surface of the brick. In fact it is not glazed. The glazing look comes when the brick is struck with a sheet of water, while hot, as it is pulled from the kiln. It also instantly shrinks the size of the brick by close to 30%. That is why it results in a 90% failure in the manufacturer process and why it is not manufactured today - it would be prohibitive in cost to do so.
The last time an installer "installed" something on our house they cause more than $5,400 in damage to brick. We had to wait for a house with matching brick to be torn down and purchase the brick from the demolition company to repair the 6 holes a telephone man made in the outside brick because I was not home at the time of the install. The installer also caused close to $2,500 in interior wall damage by drilling through from the outside.
When Dish came to install at my Dad's place they refused to do the install as he and I wanted it done so I cancelled the install and we did it ourselves. This nonsense of running cable on the outside of houses, whether old or new, is crap. It looks like crap and, when not properly secured, it weathers like crap.
I own my own Satellite Buddy meter. Once the equipment becomes available I will purchase from eBay or Claude and self-install.
Dish installers in Chicago choose to ignore homeowners, tie cables to the undersides of gutters, leave them hanging off the outside of brick walls where wind and ice can pull them off the building, and drill holes in outside walls to get the cable where they want it to be as quickly as possible. National electrical code requires either GREEN JACKETED or BARE COPPER wire for the ground. I frequently see non-grounded ground blocks hanging in mid-air or attached to buildings and used as a cable joiner.
The sloppy work which perpetuates in Chicago is why
one alderman introduced an ordinance last week requiring all new satellite installs to be done on the SIDES and BACKS of buildings whenever possible. The ordinance will not prohibit installs, but it will prefer they NOT be done on the front of any building where the sloppy cable can be seen from the street. It will also require the REMOVAL of all dishes AND the CABLE which connects to them when a contract terminates.
It may actually be legal under OTARD - depending on how the final version is written.
Put some pride in your work, installers! Install via inside cable routes as much as possible, ask the homeowner where he wants the cable to enter the building, and do the job like the homeowner wants it done.
Having been trained by the original Bell System, in the early 70s, to pull cable as part of telephone installations, I don't need a Dish installer to do something I can both do myself, especially when I can do a much better job than, most of the Dish installs I have seen in the Chicago area.
I repeat my earlier statement, I will NEVER allow Dish, or any other company, to do any kind of satellite, telephone, or other low voltage wiring so long as I am alive and own my property.
: with the HR34 and it's 5 tuners?.It just makes the Hopper look like a product that is a day late,and a dollar short.
