Reaiming My Satellite Dish On My Roof

Many who aren t intimately familiar with these systems including roofers might see it as one big hunk of metal.

Reaiming my satellite dish on my roof.

Mount dish on pole tune dish zip tie where needed. Hold the dish s mount to your home and mark the screw positions. As jester recommended use some brackets and mount off the side of the house or on an exhaust vent. Since they typically aren t satellite experts most roofing contractors can only do so much when dealing with a satellite during roof replacement.

In all likelihood the height on the dish setup is still correct and all that is needed is first to make sure the dish is plum then have someone watch over the signal strengths on your receiver or dvr as you slowly move the dish left and right to first lock in a signal then to max it as much as possible. Or you can do it the hard way as you ve said. Then after replacing the roof the contractor will also reinstall the satellite in its original spot. Select dish500 and either 110 or 119 and it will tell you where your dish needs to point.

I agree with jester. So they often unbolt the footplates and remove the dish. Look for a series of holes on the plate for bolts. A good contractor will gently remove a satellite and its mounting bracket from the roof so that they won t be damaged.

When the roof is done call directv and have them put the dish back up is well worth it the 50 00 service fee. That is a leak waiting to happen. Every satellite dish system comes in two or more parts. Fill in your trench and compresd dirt evenly to look natural.

You can purchase this caulking online or at your local hardware store. Go to the point dish screen on your receiver menu 6 1 1 point dish and type in your zipcode. I see a lot of homes with dishes mounted on the roof. Mount the under eave mount using 4 6 lag bolts depending on the mount add the dish to the mount tune the dish.

Go to your dish and make sure that the elevation is set properly skew can be checked too but is harder to bash. The dish assembly and the mounting bracket. There should only be a few holes make sure you get them good an full of the caulking. You want to use urethane sealant.

The roof won t leak right away but over time it will. Position the base plate flat against the wall or roof in the location you chose.