As most of you are aware, I have been riding my bike to and from work. I find it a good way to get some fresh air and it is far cheaper on the wallet than driving. In fact, it takes me less time to ride the ye‘old bike than to drive the truck. But, that is a conversation for later.
So, there is not much to do while in my travels, so I look at the various houses that I pass and noticed a trend. Satellite Dishes mounted to the roof. Not in the side of the house or flashing (like mine when I had Satellite), but in (through) the shingles.
Does this seem like a good idea???
Shingles move, not much, but they still move. What happens when those holes become wider from wear and tear. Can we say ROT?
Get Cable!
Then you will not need to even lose sleep about having a bunch of holes in your roof. OR if you do not want to get cable, it is not that much harder and looks even nicer if you mount the satellite dish into the flashing hanging down from the roof.
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So true, dude. I helped a friend re-roof his house and we learned that if you are going to puncture the roofing material (where it is not overlapping) you need to use some special exapnding material underneath the shingles. This stuff is about 25x more expensive than tar paper so I doubt anyone is using it!
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