Advice Needed Will a garden wall be strong enough to mount a 90cm dish on?

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Hi guys. Moved house to a place with loads of space, huge plot. I have a garden wall looking south built out of concrete blocks and render over the top. At least I think it is, it might be a just formed concrete. The wall is about 3 ft high. Don't want to drill into the house wall as its also concrete & I have no experience of drilling into concrete other than it seems to break up when I did try once! So trying the garden wall I don't mind. What type of wallplugs should I use?

I have something like this already Satellite Dish Wall Mount Bracket Terrestrial Aerial TV Mast LNB Universal UK 5902211101574 | eBay
, do you think this will do the job on the wall and will the wall take the wind load? 90cm on a dicseq motor?
 

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When you say concrete blocks, what are they in reality ?

A wallmount should have additional bracing in order to hold something like a 90cm in stron g winds, since it will be low down you might get away with it.
 

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Thanks for the reply, well I don't know what they are. I ought to add it's an Irish house built in 60s. Whatever they used for walls then. Might even be hollow concrete blocks, bearing in mind Irish construction wasn't like the English in the 60s and they still don't use kiln fired bricks even today that often. Is a holiday home. The winds are strong and the house is exposed in the countryside. The dish would be literally in a field. I was going to put an extra ground support of some kind under the end of the bracket to take the weight onto the ground and to help the load on the fixings and maybe take some of the force off the wall.

It would be wind>>> Dish. Bracket. Wall behind it. Will the wall take it?
 

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Then you are back to checking the material in the wall.
 

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It would depend on the wall's construction, if they filled it up with concrete on the inside then your set, but if they didn't then your going to need an expansion bolt, T anchor bolt or toggle bolt of some type, one that will expand to fill in behind the wall of the block.

Or you could remove the top cap on the wall at the point where your going to mount the dish an back fill it with concrete, one other way is to drill through the wall and use some through bolt's going all the way through the wall with nuts and washers on the other side.
 

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IMHO.... 90cm dish can be easily mounted on any fence, even wooden one. Let bolts go through the wall and that will be fine. Show some pictures of the place of installation.
 

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Hi you are a helpful bunch, ta!. I like the bolts through the wall idea. I will try taking and posting a pic tomorrow. There is no top cap its just a curved render or concrete. By the way I have signal on the meter with the dish on the ground. I suppose I won't know the construction until I drill a test hole.
With internet being so bad here I would love to get some TV again. With the motor I find it fascinating to watch German, Spanish, Italian as well etc & helps with the languages
 

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When you say you have a signal, do you have any actual Channels?

The thing is, an unaligned dish will show an unvarying "Signal Strength" reading simply as the result of an LNB being connected and powered up. Detach the LNB from the dish and you'll see the same reading.
 

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Are you Italian? No! We had one, his name was also Martin who was actually pretending to be Italian. But, I think, he was too bored with the company that decided to leave the forum.
 

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LOL no I'm English. I'm been a member here for many years but not been on here much lately. I was basing my signal readings in comparison to what I was getting at the rear of the house (on a pole I put up on another structure) where it can see 30W but not anything else. Out the other side on the south wall I left the sat box on a 28 E channel and I did briefly get something on the ground I heard the sound from outside. It was cold and raining anyway so I quickly gave that up. I love aligning dishes what I don't like is ladders and the lifting of dish and motor - they are very heavy. A low installation is more my thing.
 

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A low dish will work fine as long as its set up firmly and has a clear view of the horizon in the direction of the desired satellite(s). Ive had dishes set up on tyres, fence posts & scaffold poles banged into the ground for 20 years with absolutely no problems - apart from a few involuntary dish realignments where I hadnt banded the fence posts in far enough to survive the Scottish gales! (which was completely my own fault :D
 

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Sorry guys the weather has not let up since Thursday rain and wind most of the time. Currently in the middle of a huge storm and sounds like the roof is about to blow off
 
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