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Originally Posted by stardust steve
And what exactly do they mean your roof is too flexible? Is it the expansion/contraction in the materials, the pitch, or condition?
I found that amusing...sounds like another delay excuse 
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On the first installation attempt, the SUB-contractor (previously referred to as the contractor) explained to me that the roof was too flexible. The new dish is 1.5m diameter. My existing one is 800mm diameter. Wind load on the 1.5m dish at 35 kph is 85 kgf. The roof visibly deflects under weight when walking on it, not enough to be concerning safety-wise but enough to allow the dish to deflect off alignment with the satellite... apparently. 35 kph winds are pretty common in Oberon, being on top of the GDR. So the satellite link is not likely to be reliable if mounted on the roof.
It would appear to be a reasonably common problem for them to provide poles for just such instances.
Al.