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What is the other idea you have?
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Your wife is probably concerned about the appearance of the house from the street, because that is when a visitor gets the first impression of your home.
To me, all antennas are beautiful, but I can understand her feelings.
I am fortunate to have a wife that is very supportive of my antenna experiments. We just have basic cable. When the cable is out or when there is a power failure, she wants two things: a battery operated lantern to see by, and a TV to get the latest news about the power failure. We can get the news on a battery operated radio, but the radio doesn't show us weather maps.
My wife wanted me to setup an outdoor antenna (because one inside doesn't work) with a battery operated digital TV and has even been supportive to the point of buying me a signal level meter to measure the strength digital TV signals.
If your wife finds the present mounting options for the C2V unacceptable, I feel obligated to find one that is acceptable. Hopefully, she will give the OK for the C2V mounted at the rear of the house, but not visible from the street. If not, then you will have to go to plan B, with the Roamio secondary just for recording, and the TV tuners fed directly from a splitter connected to your antenna system.
There are two options that I have in mind:
1. A 10 ft mast mounted on the deck with the C2V on top. Another version of the same idea would be two 10 ft masts together, with the base at ground level, fastened to the deck at the midpoint, and extending 20 ft up from the basement ground level with the C2V on top. You could make a temporary test setup of this location to see what kind of readings you would get on your Roamio. Maybe you could even bring the Roamio up to the 1st floor TV so you wouldn't have run up and down stairs.
2. The C2V on a short mast that is supported by two wall brackets fastened to the rear of your house between the two windows on the second floor. The two wall brackets would need to be long enough to allow the C2V to be rotated NE. This idea could also be tested with a temporary setup by sticking the C2V out the west window at the rear of the second floor. Maybe you could also move the Roamio up to the TV there.
Your handyman should be able to do either of these.