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Post Time: 02/10/2007 18:43:13 |
cdwebb@btinternet.com
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I'm a bit confused as to where I am meant to be asking my question, so I hope this is the right place.
We have bought a flat in London whose kitchen window has exposure to several mobile phone masts nearby. I hired your Com meter and the reading in the kitchen was up to 4 V/m. Except for a slight reading in the hall, there was no reading in the rest of the flat. Although your silver bobinet material is very effective in resulting in no reading in the kitchen, we would prefer to install windows with Pilkington K glass. However, Pilkington say that this glass should only be installed in a doubled glazed unit(it is a single glazed unit at the moment). Initial discussions with the local planning authority indicate an unhappiness about changing any window that would alter the appearance of the window to the other kitchen windows of the block. They say that if we are unhappy about the mobile phone masts we should take it up with the enviromental health authority.
SO THIS IS MY QUESTION before I talk to the Environmental Health Department. Are there specific levels of V/m in domestic dwellings in the UK which are considered unacceptable by the government? There are references in your literature to public exposure guidelines in other European countries such as Germany, Austria, Italy, Begium etc but I cannot find any specific guide for the UK.
One further question, the Com Monitor only reads down to 0.7 V/m and yet some of your literature states that bedrooms should ideally be below 0.5 V/m. How would I know that the bedrooms are below 0.5 V/M. Is there a machine that measures these lower levels? I have an Electrosmog Detector which still makes some noise in these rooms but that might be due to the general electrosmog of London and so I am not sure what the situation is in these two rooms.
I would be very grateful for your advice.
Carol Webb
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Post Time: 03/10/2007 10:14:22 |
Sarahp
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Hi Carol
Yes, there are specific guidelines as to the unacceptable levels in the UK. Unfortunately these are set at between 28 and 61 V/metre depending on the frequency. As you know, these levels are ridiculously high, so the Environmental Health Department will simply say that you don't have a problem, but you know better.
The COM monitor reads down to 0.7 V/metre, but we actually state that people can be affected by fields as low as 0.05 V/metre (not 0.5 V/metre). If the electrosmog detector is making a pulsing noise, then it is picking up fields at this level or above. The only instrument we currently sell that will give you a reading of the fields is the very complex technical HFE35 microwave monitor (about £512). HOWEVER, we do have a new instrument in development, the Acousti-meter - which should be available very nearly next year. This will give you a digital display of the reading and will be more sensitive than the COM monitor.
Hope that helps!
Sarah
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