How To Remove Snow From Satellite Dish On Roof

I have to remove about 50 satellite dishes from the roofs at one of the properties i do maintenance at.

How to remove snow from satellite dish on roof.

Ready for superbowl now. Ravi 9th grade and raghu 6th grade came up with a simple contraption from stuff in garage to reach the satellite dish on roof and clear the snow. The sizes of these nuts will vary but most are 1 2 for directv or 7 16 for dish network. To remove the dish correctly first loosen the bolts and nuts holding the dish to the mounting bracket and gently lift it off to remove the dish separately from the mount.

I think this doesn t look very good and would like to remove everything and fill the holes that are left in the. After this spray the metal dish with rain x or wd 40. The footplates are almost always secured using bolts with 1 2 heads. I had signal loss a few weeks ago with only 2 inches of wet snow on my roof mount dish.

Wd 40 is one of the tools that you need to prevent snow from sticking or to remove snow. Will have to see what kind of crazy mix we get here over the next 2 days they re calling for just about every flavor of frozen precip at some point. A little of research and i see that a lot of guys just unbolt the dish from the footing that is actually screwed into the roof. Spray just lightly and only the metal dish.

It s very handy to have. Do not spray the low noise block converter or its supporting arm.