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Flat pricing · Travel zones · No vague quotes
$449 flat for a standard roof or gable mount, $549 for a pole or non-penetrating mount. Most installers we compete against quote "$550 to $1000" and won't give you a real number until a tech is standing in your driveway. Here's the full breakdown, published before you book — from a certified AV field engineer, not a call centre.
// Prices in CAD before HST. Confirmed in writing before anything gets booked.
A Starlink installation in Ontario costs $449 flat if the dish goes on a roof or gable, and $549 flat if it needs a pole or non-penetrating mount instead. That's the whole price for the mount and labour — not a starting point, not an estimate that grows once someone's on the ladder. It includes a standard cable run into the house and a speed test before we leave.
Compare that to how most of the market prices this job: "from $550," "$550 to $1000 depending on the job," or no number at all until you book a site visit. That range usually isn't hiding a more thorough install — it's hiding the fact that the price gets decided on-site, which means it can land anywhere in that range depending on who shows up and how the conversation goes. We publish the real number here because there's no reason not to: a roof mount is $449, a pole is $549, and the handful of things that change the total — cable length, travel zone, add-ons — are priced on this page too.
Nothing on this list gets decided on the ladder. If it isn't here, it isn't on your invoice.
| Zone | Distance | Covers (examples) | Travel fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 0–50 km | Toronto, Mississauga, Vaughan, Markham, Brampton, Richmond Hill, Oakville, Milton | FREE |
| B | 50–120 km | Barrie, Hamilton, Oshawa, Guelph, Newmarket, Kitchener–Waterloo | $59 |
| C | 120–220 km | Muskoka, Collingwood, Peterborough, Kawartha Lakes, Niagara, Orillia | $179 |
| D | 220–350 km | Huntsville, Parry Sound, Bancroft, Kingston, Owen Sound, Tobermory | $299 |
// Prices in CAD before HST. Two properties in one visit? $100 off when we book two installations on the same trip — ask when you text.
// Full removal at $179 covers more than the dish coming down. On a second-storey satellite dish removal from a brick gable in Port Credit, Mississauga, that meant taking the dish and bracket off, patching the two mounting holes properly, and colour-matching the sealant to the brick instead of leaving a grey patch behind. Book the removal alongside a new Starlink install and the dish-only rate is free.
Two-storey homes. A second-storey roofline doesn't change the $449 price — a roof or gable mount is the same flat rate no matter how many storeys the ladder has to clear. What it does change is which mount makes sense long-term: reaching a second-storey dish to clear snow every winter is a real hassle, and that's the one case where people upgrade to the $549 pole mount for reach alone, not because the roof job itself costs more.
Long cable runs. The flat rate includes a standard cable run from the mount to the router — typically a wall or two apart. Runs longer than that are $2 per foot, materials at cost, receipt shown. On a recent rural Milton property with two houses on it, wiring the second building meant a 150 ft run clipped along the facade instead of drilled through wherever was convenient, along with three mesh Wi-Fi nodes to cover both buildings — priced at the per-foot and per-node rates on this page, not folded into a vague "rural surcharge."
Trees forcing a pole mount. If the roofline can't clear the tree line, no amount of roof-mount creativity fixes that — the dish needs to go somewhere with open sky, which usually means a pole or non-penetrating stand. That's the $100 difference between $449 and $549, and it's the same $100 whether the obstruction is one maple or a whole tree line.
Metal roofs. Metal roofing changes the technique, not the price — we fasten into the panel rib with a butyl-sealed washer instead of through a flat pan, and the mount is still $449. The only way a metal roof adds cost is if you'd rather not put a fastener in it at all, in which case a pole or non-penetrating mount ($549) leaves the roof untouched.
Order the Starlink kit yourself from starlink.com and hand it to us on install day — that's the cheapest path, and it's what most people do. The install price is identical either way; we're not steering you toward buying through us.
Prefer not to deal with ordering, waiting on delivery, and figuring out which mount hardware you need? We can source it for you: genuine hardware from authorized Canadian retail, at cost, with the receipt in your hand — we are not a Starlink dealer or partner, just a shop that buys the same kit you would and delivers it on install day. The hardware itself carries no markup. What you're paying for is $100 for the sourcing and delivery run, and $50 for getting the Starlink account set up and the service activated once the dish is mounted. Order the kit yourself and neither fee applies.
Everything on this page is our price for installation — labour, mounts, cable, add-ons and optional hardware sourcing. None of it is the monthly cost of the Starlink service itself. That's a separate subscription, billed directly by Starlink to the account on your own card, and it has nothing to do with what we charge to mount the dish and wire the house.
We're deliberately not quoting Starlink's monthly plan pricing here — it's set by Starlink, not us, and a number we print today could be stale by the time you read it. Check starlink.com for current plans and pricing in your area before you book, and ask us if you want a second opinion on which plan tier actually fits how the property will use it.
roof or gable mount, or $549 for pole / non-penetrating, plus travel if outside Zone A
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