Tips to have less EMFs in your home

MARIA TZAVARAS

November 27, 2007

Kevin Byrne runs a Toronto-based business called EMF Solutions Canada.

After being a sufferer of electromagnetic field pollution, Byrne said he felt so strongly about what happened to him, he wanted to help others clean up EMFs in their homes.

After an hour-long presentation about EMFs, Byrne uses seven different meters to detect different types of EMFs in a client's. The EMFs are as follows:

MAGNETIC: commonly found around hydro towers, above-ground power lines, transformers, computers, low-voltage lighting, a home or building's electrical mast and panel and faulty or outdated wiring

ELECTRIC: commonly found emanating from clock radios, laptops and lamps. Anything that is plugged in with a cord can have high electric field readings

RADIO FREQUENCY: DECT cordless phones and baby monitors, cellphone towers, Wi-Fi networks

DIRTY ELECTRICITY: This is electromagnetic radiation riding in your interior home wiring

PLUMBING CURRENT/GROUND CURRENT: comes in from outside via the water pipe and ground wires

Byrne then prepares a site plan to clean up EMFs in the most frequented rooms in the house such as the bedrooms, home office and family room, and shows homeowners how to reduce their exposure.

One of the best things that can be done is to install Graham-Stetzer filtres on every circuit or breaker in the house, which will "short out" the radiation riding on the electrical wiring.

Tips to help you avoid excess exposure to EMFs

• Install Graham/Stetzer filtres in your home to reduce the harmful, dirty electricity being radiated by your home's electrical wiring.

• Replace all the dimmer switches in your house with regular switches. Dimmer switches create dirty electricity that can contaminate an entire home's electrical wiring with dangerous high-frequency energy.

• Avoid installing low-voltage halogen, fluorescent tubes and energy-efficient compact fluorescent lighting and other energy-efficient devices or appliances that have variable speed drives in them like some furnaces, fans, heaters, front-loading washing machines and so on. Treadmills are also polluters.

• When replacing your computer monitor or TV, buy a new LCD model. They emit much less EMFs radiation.

• Clean up the electrical power cords and transformers around your computer and desk and reroute them away from your feet and seating area.

• Don't have power bars or power cords near your feet.

• Don't install a Wi-Fi wireless network.

• Don't buy cordless phone that uses DECT technology because they constantly transmit a strong radiation and electromagnetic fields signal, even when just sitting in the cradle.

• Use cellphones sparingly. Limit the time and use a land line whenever possible

• Never use a laptop on your lap. Unplug your laptop from the electrical outlet and operate on the battery when in use or use it with a keyboard.

• Get rid of your clock radio in the bedroom and switch to a battery-operated model.

• Don't buy a home near a cellular phone tower or close to high-voltage power lines.

• Have your home surveyed for EMFs. To reduce your EMF exposure at home, consider having an EMF home inspection and consultation.