I had Sky TV installed today, what a f**king effort.

The arrangement was for us to recieve 4 x Sky+ boxes, one for each room and basically have it all setup and left for us to use. We had paid for the boxes, arranged the channels to be added to the package and awaited the installation.

The installation dudes turned up 11am and got straight to work, they drilled all the holes and got stuck straight into getting our TV system set up. Then came the bombshell. Turns out you need to have a phone socket in every room! We only have the one phone socket and that is downstairs, three of the boxes were meant to be housed upstairs!

Cue some phone calls to Sky and we manage to work out that we can add the one Sky box downstairs and one in my room, they have phone points. The installation dudes get back to work and start laying phone lines and cables so we can use it in the rooms. They have been at the house for nearly three hours by this point.

Another bombshell is dropped. We only have 3 Sky Digiboxes and one Sky+ box, not the 4 Sky+ boxes we were meant to have. OK, just shove it in and we will sort it out.

Two hours pass and they install it all finally. Next thing to piss us off is the fact that the packages we ordered arent all installed. Another phone call to Sky.

Sky offer £30 for the nuisance, my mother basically says “F**k that”. She is told that she can write to Sky and complain, oh she will do.

I can see us having the four boxes were orignally wanted, some compensation and I can see us getting it installed for free, thats the beauty of having a mum like mine

The box I have in my room: