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Has anyone investigated having air conditioning installed, if so who are they getting to fit it? What was the approx cost, or would it be better to see if we can get a group rate from suppliers. Like wise with sat TV are we all having 1.3 metre dishes? Or has any one thought of a communal system.

Noel & Deb 8a

I've had some quotes for Sat TV...the first looks cheapest but the second has not disclosed the extent of group discount

Hi All,

Yesterday we had air-con units installed by D-Match and they did a very good job - except that they managed to badly scratch the marble tiles under each unit - presumably where the step-ladder was placed.
We tried to remove the browny-black marks and got some out but some will be there forever.

I have written to D-Match asking for advice on removing such stains, but really this post is just to warn anyone who is about to or is planning to get air-con installed to ensure the tiles are protected beforehand (i.e. get installers to lay down protective sheets or cardboard).

Dave & Ailsa, 2A

I queried the figures with Europa-Digital that I posted on Saturday and have received this reply.

No this is the normal price that people sharing pay. The owner does get the system cheaper but this is mainly due to the fact that he has the dish on his property and cables going to the other 3 apartments. Hence the lower prices compensates him for this.

Seems fair enough. I am told that the bigger dish is needed where we are and there is a difference in the quality of the digiboxes provided by the different firms. Would be interesting to hear from any Los Olivions who have had a shared system installed already.

Eddie 20B

Hi all,

Out of interest, from those people who have had sat systems installed already, what is the picture/signal quality and reliability like?  We've just spent a week at a Los Naranjos apartment.  It had, what appeared to be, a Sat installation utilising a 1.35m dish.  However, for most of the week I could only get "There is a technical problem" or "no Sat signal being received" and when I did get a signal it was very "blocky".  Only channel you could watch with regularity was CNN!!  A set of instructions, left at the apartment, advised me that rebooting of the system may be required at times e.g. power cuts, other signal losses.  The fact that these instructions were there suggested that this is a more frequent occurance than back in the UK.

Is this typical or just an example of a bad installation?

best wishes, Lewis

You are upstairs Lewis, you should be fine.  We saw excellent picture quality at several Arriba apartments.  However, we had someone out to look at siting a dish on the downstairs and I think it is going to be problematical.  It will be best to share with neighbours upstairs, but they may want to use all four connections so this will not always be possible.  Lots of power cuts at the moment, but this will get better once everyone is on mains electricity.  Air con also needs rebooting after a cut.  For anyone interested - you can get 7 Spanish channels just by plugging in.  Picture quality is fine.

Best wishes,

Linda 

The only problem seems to be with people on the ground floor North side with regards to satelite positioning as the dish needs to be sighted to receive a signal. People on the South side ground, can locate the dish on the floor, however people on the North do not have any position as anything above ceiling height of their apartment is classed as upstairs property and would need permission to mount a dish on somebody else's property.

With regards to sharing the problem is that a dish can only provide 4 feeds. Should you require a Sky Plus box this takes 2 and should you be like us a Sky plus box in the sitting room and one in the bedroom takes all the available feeds .

What options do we have as a community regarding  having a large dish in the communal area, hidden within the new shrubs for everybody to share as large developments and high rise blocks seem to use these.

The place will be littered with dishes and people on the South side will be disadvantaged for a beautiful out look at the mountains.

Drew 10a

Looking through the messages again. Drew said that those on the ground floor south side can position a satellite dish on the ground but I think there are properties to be built on the other side of the road at some time in the future which may cause a problem.

Someone mentioned the large grey dishes causing a bit of an eyesore. Sorry to go on about when we were in Cabrera but up there you were supposed to paint the dishes to match the wall colour. As long as you use a water based paint suitable for outside walls it does not affect reception.

Eddie 20B

We have had our satelite installed by Satcom, this was very resonable,he came and fitted the next day, we are sharing with Mike & Carole 8b, with dish and dual LNB, cable runs to both apartments cost 350 euros, we took a sky box from the UK as they are much cheaper here and work just the same (available on ebay) if you get one, some of the older ones will not pick up channel 4 in Spain.

if you would like contact details for Satcom, please send a PM and will pass on.

regards

Noel & Deb 8A