On 2008-01-31 12:30:45 +0000, Eddy
said:

Hi.

Overheard the man supervising our builders saying, "Don't you worry
about putting the satellite dish back, we'll get the SKY man in to do
that"!

What's happening is that the satellite dish is currently attached to the
chimney but after the building works have finished it needs to be
repositioned down the other end of the house - where it can still face
the same direction.

Now I would have thought that re-positioning it is a fairly simple
matter of attaching the appropriate fixing to the side of the house,
popping the dish onto it, and then (most importantly) getting the angle
right.

At worst, getting the angle right (in my thinking) can be accomplished
by having one person up the ladder and another person reporting on the
TV reception from the TV end of the cable. In other words: a fairly
straightforward DIY job

. . or am I wrong and a no-doubt expensive "SKY man" needs to visit?

Eddy.

There's a really simple solution.

Call up Sky and navigate through the voice menus until you get to the
one to cancel the subscription. Tell them that the dish has had to
be removed because of building work and that you are debating whether
to cancel the subscription because of the cost of having the dish
reinstalled.

There is a very high probability that they will send somebody to do it
for nothing, and even more of a probability if cable passes your house.