Island Jeff
join:2005-07-18
 ·WildBlue
 ·TDS
| reply to Swallx
Re: [installer] WHY OH WHY 125 dollars for a pole ?
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Yesterday the guys show up to install, take the dish off the pole and tell us its not a complete reinstall and we will have to pay 125.00 for a new pole. To which I reply "I have already paid for the pole, its in the front yard" 125 dollars for a 6 foot steel pole seems pricey, but I shouldn't have to pay for it. I bought one before and it was installed wrong.
Who installed the last pole? I think it's a problem for you that you accepted what sounds like a poor install for 2 years. It would have been easier to demand that be corrected right away. And I suppose no one can predict exactly how fast trees will grow, but if there was a better location on the site and they located it in a poor location where a reasonable person would expect a tree to grow into the line of sight in the forseeable future, I'd stay on whomever did the previous install to recover that money to pay the current installer.
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Now I don't know who all has seen these poles but they are the same size as a Chain Link fence post, there is nothing special or magical about them that I can see. They certainly aren't worth 125 dollars.
Either you need a thick wall 2" O.D. pole (as NRTC used when they first started installing in 2005 - thin wall will not work as it will have too much flex) - I paid over $60 just for this pipe as pole adapters weren't available then - or you need a pole adapter. You also need the concrete, time to dig the hole, conduit to put the cable in for an ideal install, time to dig the trench... Having put my own pole in, I consider $100 very fair and wouldn't feel ripped off paying $125.
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