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Satellite re-alignment in North Sligo

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  • 04-01-2012 10:16pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭


    Recent poor weather has screwed up our SKY reception - any one know of a local handyman who could re-align? Thanks!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭dnme


    I'd advise getting a local TV installer, its a tricky job and best left to professionals who are trained and insured to go up ladders on your property.

    Local TV shop, simple!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    Get a satellite detector for €15 and do it yourself?

    You may well have to do it again in the future.

    Easy peezy really...

    You'd think if Sky installed them, they'd readjust them for nothing.


  • Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭ge_ch


    Same happened to me last months.rang sky and was told it would cost me €100. Rang a local business but when he came out he wanted to sell me a new dish although i only called him to fix the dish. A friend of mine gave me another number and that guy came out the same evening. It was a very wet and stormy day but he insisted of fixing it straight away. I felt so bad for him, kept checking that the wind didn't blow him of the ladder. Lovely man. I can give you his number if you want.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭Radharc na Sleibhte


    Is it the dish thats moved or just the lnb.
    Id say you could re-adjust yourself.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭johnire


    Hi there.
    I have just sent you a private message with a name and number of an excellent guy here in Sligo.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Sent you a PM for the name and number of a guy too..

    .. the dish feed arm on both my dish and my father's dish broke over Christmas (fecking winds).

    This guy replaced them for a fraction of the price of getting a Sky Engineer out.. very nice guy too!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    My dish was torn off the bracket by the near constant wind round here, for the 2nd time, recently.
    I spotted a couple of chaps boarding up some derelict houses in Sligo town and saw a relatively recently installed dish on the front of one of the houses.
    I asked them if they would take it down for me and they very kindly did.
    I got another one in the garden of one of the houses too.
    Gave them a fiver I had in me pocket and away with the two dishes.
    So now I have a spare too, happy days.
    Last time I got an old dish out of Greenstar and put it up, worked perfectly.
    Have never had to replace the LNB.

    Stuck it up the next day and have had a great reception since :D
    have become pretty good at fixing them at this stage.

    Good luck anyway OP ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,411 ✭✭✭dnme


    Pete M. wrote: »
    My dish was torn off the bracket by the near constant wind round here, for the 2nd time, recently.
    I spotted a couple of chaps boarding up some derelict houses in Sligo town and saw a relatively recently installed dish on the front of one of the houses.
    I asked them if they would take it down for me and they very kindly did.
    I got another one in the garden of one of the houses too.
    Gave them a fiver I had in me pocket and away with the two dishes.
    So now I have a spare too, happy days.
    Last time I got an old dish out of Greenstar and put it up, worked perfectly.
    Have never had to replace the LNB.

    Stuck it up the next day and have had a great reception since :D
    have become pretty good at fixing them at this stage.

    Good luck anyway OP ;)

    Why not go back and get the windows, door, and anything else that is screwed to the property. Might as well make a day of it!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,931 ✭✭✭dingding


    Can anyone please pm me a recommendation for someone to allign or replace a sky dish in sligo town. Some of the channels have stopped working on me.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭johnire


    Hi there
    Ihave semt you a PM with details.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Sent you on someone too dingding.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    dnme wrote: »
    Why not go back and get the windows, door, and anything else that is screwed to the property. Might as well make a day of it!

    ehm, because I didn't need them and because the houses were already boarded up and because I didn't have room for them in the car and because I had other things to do?
    Not a bad idea though if you had the time. Place will be tumbled into a heap in a while I reckon, so salvaging whatever can be re-used at this stage makes perfect sense to me.
    Few more dishes down there if anyone stuck :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Richard571


    Basq wrote: »
    Sent you a PM for the name and number of a guy too..

    .. the dish feed arm on both my dish and my father's dish broke over Christmas (fecking winds).

    This guy replaced them for a fraction of the price of getting a Sky Engineer out.. very nice guy too!

    Thanks basq ( and johnire)...great guy, quick, cheap and friendly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Did myself and johnire recommend the same guy? Just curious!


  • Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭Richard571


    Basq wrote: »
    Did myself and johnire recommend the same guy? Just curious!

    Yup, same fella


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Richard571 wrote: »
    Yup, same fella
    Mad! :D

    Nicest bloke in the world too!

    Have sent about 5 people his way in the last fortnight.. and every single one of them have nothing but praise for him.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,535 ✭✭✭johnire


    Basq wrote: »
    Mad! :D

    Nicest bloke in the world too!

    Have sent about 5 people his way in the last fortnight.. and every single one of them have nothing but praise for him.
    Basq---isnt he just the best guy ever!
    Its an absolute pleasure to deal with him.Guys like him deserve any work that can be put their way.


  • Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Shadow78


    Could you send me on his details too please?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2 chasie


    Please pm contact detail me as I also need help to refocus my dish


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Sent PM to both chasie and Shadow78.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 382 ✭✭eire-kp


    Would he sent up a free to air dish?..if so could you pm his details please!


  • Registered Users Posts: 650 ✭✭✭blackiebest


    Happy new year all! I have a mate who took over an existing business putting up dishes independant of Sky. Top man who will deliver value for money and do a great job and frankly could do with any work going, give him a shout a on an auld boardsie recommendation! I will pm the number to anyone who asks or maybe the mods will allow this "Harry @ 0867333147" ask for a blackiebest price :)

    Sorry if serious breach mods, I am normally good


  • Registered Users Posts: 5 Swiss Toni


    Basq wrote: »
    Sent you a PM for the name and number of a guy too..

    .. the dish feed arm on both my dish and my father's dish broke over Christmas (fecking winds).

    This guy replaced them for a fraction of the price of getting a Sky Engineer out.. very nice guy too!

    Hi Basq,

    I have the same problem at the moment, broken feed arm. Would you mind sending me a pm with the name and number of the guy that fixed your dish please?

    Thanks.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3 connacht1979


    Hi Basq,

    Just stumbled on this forum, I would appreciate it if you could send me contact details for that person you know who repairs satellite dishes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,892 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    PM sent connacht1979.


  • Registered Users Posts: 357 ✭✭red bellied


    Anyone out there who installs motorised dishes? Half thinking of getting a setup.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3 connacht1979


    Just stumbled on this forum, anyone have any recommendations for tarmac contractor in the Sligo area.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭magnumlady


    Just stumbled on this forum, anyone have any recommendations for tarmac contractor in the Sligo area.

    I'd suggest starting a new thread. This was about satellites and is years old. Thread locked.


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