HAVING a Sky digital mini-dish put on the outside of his bungalow proved to be a major headache for one Hampshire man.

For the dish was fitted so close to the ground that Derek Lewis, a 38-year-old six-footer, was in danger of bumping into it every time he walked along his garden path.

And his three-year-old daughter Emily's favourite Disney programme vanished from the screen when the dish moved in the heavy wind.

To pick up a good signal, Mr Lewis wanted the dish put on the chimney pot because his bungalow in Fair Oak is low-lying and tucked behind trees.

After seeing TV adverts of Sky satellite dishes dancing across rooftops, he did not think his request was a tall order.

But now he has been told by Sky that it does not install dishes on roofs and chimneys.

Mr Lewis, an Internet consultant, believes the TV advert gives the wrong impr-ession and he intends to take it up with the television advertising agency.

Meanwhile he is paying £65 for a private installer to put the dish on the chimney pot at the Winchester Road bungalow.

Mr Lewis has already paid an installation fee of £40 to Sky and is now having to pay for filling in eight holes in the wall where the original installations were.

The dish saga started last October, when Mr Lewis and his wife, Vicki, decided to take Sky.

He said: "We wanted to get a better signal, better range of films and Disney for the children.

"Unfortunately, on the day the engineer came in I had to go to work. He set up the cable in the lounge, which was fine.

"My wife called me at work and said the engineer had put the dish on the outside but he had to move it because the trees were in the way."

Mr Lewis wondered why the trees were in the way, but then he was told that the dish was being put on the wall and not on the chimney.

There was no one available from Sky to comment.