Hollow walls

Hi Moved house and the problame i have is the bungalow we have moved to has hollow outside walls,is there a way i can still put up a 1.2 meter dish and motor on to this type of walls without it being ripped down?

srgberian said:

Hi Moved house and the problame i have is the bungalow we have moved to has hollow outside walls,is there a way i can still put up a 1.2 meter dish and motor on to this type of walls without it being ripped down?

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When you say hollow walls can you elaborate a little, is it say breeze block with render or pebble dash, the way to fix to such walls is to use a cleat, so you fix say a piece of timber or metal to the wall then brackets to this so it distributes the force when it's windy. it would help if you could give me an idea of the construction of the walls.

the bungalow use to have a metal shell they removed this and put up walls wich are no thicker then 1/2 inch then insulation between the out side wall and the inner with a gap between the both being about 4 inches.

The still must be a metal or wooden frame inside . It's just a matter of finding those and you could attach it to those

I just moved out of a flat which was built like that, had problems keeping a small sky dish attached.

I think you would end up with large chucks of you wall on the ground if you attempted to mount a large system..

srgberian said:

the bungalow use to have a metal shell they removed this and put up walls wich are no thicker then 1/2 inch then insulation between the out side wall and the inner with a gap between the both being about 4 inches.

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Oh right well half an inch is very thin (are you sure?), any idea what it is (concrete panels, etc) or maybe post a picture of it. as @countryboy suggests they will have framing to attach them, we need to know what the walls are made of to recommend fixings and a method to do this.

Can't you just ground-mount the dish?

looks like i will have to mount it on a pole in the garden.

Better bet, as long as you can see the sky all is good