Roof Needs To Ne Replace But Satellite Dish

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Roof needs to ne replace but satellite dish.

After the roof is installed the most common practice is re installing the dish in the same holes. Of course you do not need an old dish to install a new hd antenna. So you get a new roof and then got to wait a few years till its old again to be able to mount a dish on it. The allowed 38 00 for r r of the dish.

The satellite that your dish connects with is in a geosynchronous orbit moving the same as the earth somewhere above the equator. Don t forget to buy the dish tech lunch. You may need to do this too if you can t find a clear spot elsewhere. I called dish prior to the roof repair.

This means if you reside in north america your satellite dish needs a clear and unobstructed view of the southern sky to pick up signals from that satellite. Here is a small chart for how to connect and combine signals from 2 antennas facing different directions if needed. I have been with dish about 17 years. Seriously i hear this every day from people who get new roofs and i don t get it.

I noticed after i bought the home there is a satellite dish on the roof. When the roofers arrived they needed to remove the dish in order to put on the new roof. What does a satellite dish need to work. Prior to getting the new roof the customer had their dish network or directv dish installed on their roof.

Since they typically aren t satellite experts most roofing contractors can only do so much when dealing with a satellite during roof replacement. Its ok to install a dish on an older roof but not a new roof. Satellite dish installers almost automatically go for the roof to guarantee the satellite isn t obstructed. A good contractorwill gently remove a satellite and its mounting bracket from the roof so that they won t be damaged.

We had a hail storm april 2017. What the dish is not good enough to go on your new roof. It s probably directtv and i was wondering what i can do with this. The pole gives the dish more height without it needing to be on the roof.

Allstate replaced the entire roof. There was no charge for the service call. This thread is archived. If you re in the northern hemisphere the dish needs to point south to receive a signal.