TV aerial refitting. How much!

[Brigadier]

Mrs Mottie will go mad when she finds out I’ve asked him. Last time I had him round here working on a ladder about 30 years ago, we were taking out a large single pane of glass from the bathroom window to fit a double glazed unit in. He was on the ladder outside, I was inside, removed the beading and as he was tapping from outside, the ladder slid away and he fell from height and landed flat on his back on top of it. I ran straight downstairs and out the back and he just got up and apologised to Mrs Mottie as he had broken one of her tea cups that was on the patio!

Wasn't Mr O'Reilly - who Basil Fawlty used - was it?

 

[pete01]

Wasn't Mr O'Reilly - who Basil Fawlty used - was it?

Great episode.

 

[securespark]

Get highway man round he'll do it for a bacon bap.

You're selling him cheap there, you'd have to add a Not Poodle and a Wagon Wheel into the bargain...

 

[Mottie]

Sorted. Or soon will be. Dunno why I had it in my head to get an aerial installer out. Phoned up my builder mate, asked him if he had a good sturdy set of tall ladders. "Yep". Next question, how good are you at working at the very top of them….

He's got them on his van and will call in either tonight or tomorrow on his way home from a job and sort it out for me.



All sorted. A cup of coffee, a natter and he used 8mm rawlbolts instead of screws. I helped by footing the ladder.

 

[pete01]

Ladder doesn't look 4 to 1 but whatever.

 

[Mottie]

Ladder doesn't look 4 to 1 but whatever.

What’s 4 to 1?

 

[pete01]

What’s 4 to 1?

 

[Mottie]

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Ah, right. The flank wall was between our house and the semi next door so the bottom of the ladder was practically touching next doors flank wall. 8ft gap so ladder roughly 7ft away from my wall so about right anyway.

 

[blup]

Get a satellite dish

 

[Mottie]

Get a satellite dish

My sky dish is still up there but has not been used since about 1995. When we moved in, back in 1990, I brought my satellite dish from my old house. I’m not kidding you but I climbed up on my roof and mounted it to the chimney breast and to tune it in, I chucked an extension lead up there and carried up the satellite receiver and a TV to help me tune it in. Pointed it in the rough direction, tuned it in to the TV, chose a satellite channel and then fine tuned it by moving the dish until I got the best reception. Tightened everything up. Job done. Sat there for a while watching a cricket match. Neighbours must have thought I was mad. Absolutely no fear of heights in those days but with age comes fear!

 

[pete01]

 

[Brigadier]

What’s 4 to 1?

That's exactly why you were best not going up a ladder

 

[HERTS P&D]

Looks like you owe your mate another meal out Mottie!

Or at least an oil change.



Andy

 

[Elsa TLC]

Dont go getting up that ladder.

You remember Rod Hull, and what happened to him.

That bloody bird is still on the run.

 

[Brigadier]

Dont go getting up that ladder.

You remember Rod Hull, and what happened to him.

That bloody bird is still on the run.

Might be an urban myth, but iirc the rumour was that he was fiddling on the roof during the half time of the Bayern v Manchester United champions league final.