Well just got a look at my install
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And yes I am calling dish now, I wasn't able to get out sooner to see it due to my work and school schedule.
There is no excuse for doing shi**y work like that, especially if he was there for 6 hours. Was this a DNS tech or a sub? What is with the last pic, are you saying he raised up your roof or something? Hopefully they will come back out and clean up the mess. The loops at the ground block have to be there in case you ever need to have the connectors changed, although they need to be smaller and secured. Good luck!
That's craptastic. Unfortunately I have seen worse. You would think the tech would have rewired the whole house if he took that long. I notice that he barrelled new to existing lines and what is with the ground block? It looks like there is a green ground wire laying on the ground not attached to anything.
Sorry about the quality of the work. I can assure you that most installers do much better work.
Sorry about the quality of the work. I can assure you that most installers do much better work.
Oh this was two dns guys, he was there that long because he had to leave for an hour to get a reflector and he had issues with his satbuddy or bird dog meter which ever it was. I'm a little ticked at myself for not following him as I should have but he was here when I was supposed to be sleeping and I had to watch my daughter so I couldn't do much.
The last two pics show how close the ground source is and also that even though the wrong clamp was used and it took a follow up call to get it done that at least direct grounded their system.
So now I have to wait for the local shop to call to come out and assess any damages and to reinstall the system.
So now I have to wait for the local shop to call to come out and assess any damages and to reinstall the system.
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He ran all new, the barreled line is a cox line that will be replaced in the future when I re-wire the house to bring all the lines internal. The ground wire you see is from the direct installation which was also another headache install.
No I didn't as I was at that point up for 24 hours and was watching my daughter and there was no work order as apparently dish is no longer using them, all he had was a dha and that was a photocopy. I know I know I've been around here long enough and having worked for dish in the past I should know better but there wasn't much I could do at the time.
Unfortunately, I see this level of work quality all the time. Your install would definitely fail a QAS on many aspects. What a hack job! I look back now at the quality of my work today in comparison to the first few jobs I did on my own when I became an installer and I have to say, never on my worst day did anything I ever did compare to this! And now some other poor guy is gonna have to fix all that.
you could say that again... that is horrible... was that dish mounted over living space?? i'm not sure but i i think i see bishop tape at least... man, i would not be able to sleep or even leave the job site if my install was like that...
wow. i always try to cut corners while installing but usually wuss out. ive never seen it run under the shingles just to save some screw clips. Was this a new install or did you move to this house with service? Cuz if you already had service and moved it is actually okay with the NEC to not ground it cuz your grandfathered in, but i have a feeling that this was a new install!!
It would still fail on the ground issue because there is a ground available. Only if there is truly no feasible way to ground does the grandfather clause save you.
daang and the dish is over a living space, that's a huge no no along with everything else. it was a new connect there should be zero excuses, i've been to service changes where the job was f'd up from loong ago and i cleaned it up as much as possible...but with new connects or movers NO excuse
