sandstone walls and mounting satellite dish

[nmontandon]

Hi all,
been a lurker on the forums for awhile and couldn't find much of a answer for this, as most of the posts seems to be internal thing like tv wall brackets, coat hangers.
I'm looking at installing freesat and need to install a dish that I'm full confident doing and working at height, just the home I own has 350mm solid sandstone block walls with lime mortar built in the 1880s and I'm really looking for advice on what fasteners or method to mount the bracket for the dish?

 

[cross thread]

Resin and threaded bar

 

[GhostIntMachine]

Be careful not to drill too close to the edges of blocks. If needs be turn the hammer action off. Sandstone cracks quite easily, especially unsupported edges

 

[foxhole]

Could you not mount a post in appropriate position and fix in garden etc. Dish just needs line of site , doesn’t need height.

 

[spile]

You will need a sat meter to align it. It’s not something you can do by pointing in the general direction.

 

[jj4091]

You will need a sat meter to align it. It’s not something you can do by pointing in the general direction.

If you get close to any signal then the built in signal strength indicator on your box should be good enough to tune it satisfactrily.

 

[SithLordHood]

Have you thought about using Sky Stream and/or Sky Glass to reeive Sky these days, then you wont need a dish at all.

 

[foxhole]

Have you thought about using Sky Stream and/or Sky Glass to reeive Sky these days, then you wont need a dish at all.

What makes you think he is interested in Sky tv.?

 

[spile]

If you get close to any signal then the built in signal strength indicator on your box should be good enough to tune it satisfactrily.

Without a meter the signal is likely to be marginal and will break up in heavy rain.

 

[jj4091]

On our box the signal level detector tells you when you have 100% or anything lower. I have always used that to set it up when the dish has been changed and never had a problem with weather except when there are black storm clouds overhead and it has been like that since it was first installed by a guy with a meter. Every time I have replaced it since due to corosion i have set the new ones up usuing the graduated angle scales on the mountings as a rough guide then fine tuned with the box indicator. Obviously if it was a new instalation and you had no idea where to point the dish then it might be a different kettle of fish but I suspect you might still be able to do it using that mmethod.

 

[foxhole]

Agree , have fitted several dishes or repaired without any meter.

 

[Old Salt]

You can get a basic sat finder for under £15.

 

[Rodders53]

You can get a basic sat finder for under £15.

As useful as a chocolate teapot. (I used to caravan with a sat dish and one of those meters).

The suggestions to use the receiver box metering is sound and adjustment can be extremely accurate. (Humax Foxsat-HDR in my case).

I'd second the suggestion that the dish needs not be mounted high up... Here's a pic of my caravan setup:


I understand Sandstone to be relatively soft (Chateau DIY TV programme had them hand-sawing through blocks / pavers) so a slowish steady non-percussive drill should be OK I'd expect.

 

[Old Salt]

As useful as a chocolate teapot. (I used to caravan with a sat dish and one of those meters).

The suggestions to use the receiver box metering is sound and adjustment can be extremely accurate. (Humax Foxsat-HDR in my case).

I'd second the suggestion that the dish needs not be mounted high up... Here's a pic of my caravan setup:


I understand Sandstone to be relatively soft (Chateau DIY TV programme had them hand-sawing through blocks / pavers) so a slowish steady non-percussive drill should be OK I'd expect.

I used to motorhome with one and it worked perfectly well, so there

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

If you get close to any signal then the built in signal strength indicator on your box should be good enough to tune it satisfactrily.

Which is what I do, quite frequently!