We use hot water with the red bag fast setting Quickcrete and it's usually hard enough to put the dish on it in about 45 minutes.
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We use hot water with the red bag fast setting Quickcrete and it's usually hard enough to put the dish on it in about 45 minutes.
No, he's a retailer, he's lucky. My company think they need to jump every time Dish snaps their fingersDo you have to take time-lapsed photos to document the procedure?
Do you have to take time-lapsed photos to document the procedure?
No photos necessary for Dish but they are for Hughesnet and Viasat.
We do take photos of every job for our records though.
We abide by all the Dish installation rules and guidelines so all of our installations are by the book. We also goThey 'audit' our installs occasionally but we've been doing it for so long with no violations they pretty much leave us alone.
No photos necessary for Dish but they are for Hughesnet and Viasat.
We do take photos of every job for our records though.
We abide by all the Dish installation rules and guidelines so all of our installations are by the book. We also goThey 'audit' our installs occasionally but we've been doing it for so long with no violations they pretty much leave us alone.
I rarely get audited.
Only on certain Directv commercial DRE hotel jobs
Only one audit that I know of in 17 years. Around 2008 I believe. Had to add another lag bolt to a facia mount. A bit nit-picky.
From what I'm told they don't tell you about the audit unless they find a fault. We haven't heard from them in a lot of years but we're told they're still checking from time to time.
Not an official audit at all, but a couple of years ago I had DTV/Dish retailer's tech stop at our lakeside cottage to tell me that my semi-permanent dish installation was "not an authorized installation". He offered to fix it, for a fee of course. I told him it was "authorized" by the installer, which would be me, and sent him on his way. The 1K4 dish we use there is mounted on a standard roof mount tripod that's sitting on the ground anchored by a couple of concrete blocks. The dish is located so close to the property line that I'm not really sure without a survey which side it's on. The adjacent property owner is the state agency that regulates our lake use, and we have a permit to access the land. What we can't do, is make any permanent improvements to their land, including a pole mount. It seemed prudent not to risk their wrath and our permit...
Everyone does things different.
My pole mounts get plain Jane concrete, a little bit of water and then packed or tamped in with a digging bar. Pole is ready for immediate use.
My pole mounts get plain Jane concrete, a little bit of water and then packed or tamped in with a digging bar. Pole is ready for immediate use.
