If you were to get a phone call and the person on the other end said that you have won a free gift would you keep listening or would you hang up?   Most of us would hang up.  Why?  Nothing is free, there is always a catch.  Everything costs something even if you don’t pay for it– someone else does.  This ideology for some reason fades to black when it comes to electronics.  We assume that the latest and greatest gadget comes with no strings attached; we see it as a testament to our remarkable handle on technology and superiority of our environment.   At least that is what we would like to think.

There is a cost to energy efficiency that they don’t tell you about.  There is a cost to the latest wireless gadget that you own.  There is a cost to the convenience or easier lifestyle that we all have become accustomed to.   The costs associated with these items are different for everyone.   The cost of items like your laptops, TV’s, desktops, CFLs (curly-Q lightbulbs), dimmer switches, dimmable LEDs, fluorescent lighting and just about all the wired electronics that you have in your home, are costly because of the way they use electricity.   They do not use electricity continuously, therefore they give off what is called high frequency voltage transients also known as dirty electricity.  Dirty electricity has been the cause of many health problems found in a number of research papers.  It would also appear that the amount of dirty electricity is growing.

Next, consider your cell phones, cell towers, smart meters, tablets, Wi-Fi, and any other wireless technology that we now have at the tips of our fingers.  Please ask yourself some simple questions.  If a signal can travel through a brick wall and/or multiple walls of my home, do you think that it can also travel through you?  What is that effect of the signal passing through your body?  Do you think that that signal passing through your body then has an effect?  What happens when you add energy to a system that doesn’t need it or require it?

If you look at the track record in our country, it not impressive when it comes to protecting the health of its people.  For example, it wasn’t until the 1980’s that they there were warnings attached to cigarettes.  It took until 1972 for the government to pass laws to deal with toxic waste and raw sewage being dumped into our waterways.  Some other well know examples are:  DDT, asbestos, lead based paints, and the list goes on and on.  The government is not fast to react.  It would appear that there needs to be a pile of bodies before any action is taken by government, especially when money is involved.

This is where everyone can help and you don’t have to voice an opinion or sign a paper.  It is simply done by what you buy and what you ask for.   Companies will make what consumers want in order to make money.  Companies are in the business to make money.  If people demand better products, companies will make them.  Or you could also just wait for the government to step in and set standards.  Whatever you decide, neither way will happen overnight.

In the meantime, you can have your home inspected and control the things that you can control.  In the last few days there has been interest in what a home inspection costs.  So I thought I would lay it all out for you, for it is my philosophy that the best place to hide is often in the open.   The home inspection fee is $400.  In addition, you will have the opportunity to have filters installed in your home (which I would do) but that cost would be extra (for the filters not the installation).  The filters are designed to ‘clean up’ the dirty electricity in your home.  An average home (2000 ft²) will take about 20 filters.  Just using one or two is not effective or recommended.   Each filter is $30 + tax.  The amount you need will depend on what you have in your house.  I would also recommend a meter so that going forward you would be able to monitor your environment where ever you go.  The meter is $100 + tax.   This would mean that all together you are looking at cost of about $1100 + tax give or take based on the amount of filters needed.  The filters should last a lifetime and you can take them with you if you ever move, the same with the meter.   This is not something that you should need to repeat in the future, granted your home environment stays more or less the same.   It should be a one-time expense per house.  The inspection will take approximately 2-3 hours.   A day or two later I will mail or email you a report, copies of the wave forms that I collect, and a summary of what was talked about and recommendations.

 

I am willing to travel to where ever you are but know that I am based in Altoona, WI.  So everything within 2 hours driving I include in the cost.  Locations more than 2 hours away may have an extra charge based on travel time.  Discounts are offered for groups of home inspections, or referrals given at the time service.

 

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at darnell@flutterbusters.com

What is your reaction to when something bad happens to someone else?  Most often you assume that person has had some bad luck or were unfortunate for a reason that surely you yourself can avoid for whatever reason.   I often think this when I pass a car on the road that has been pulled over by a police officer.  What happens if you found out that what was affecting the person with the problem, or causing the problem, was also affecting you.  What would you do then?  What if their problem was also your problem?  Would you fix it?

This is where the realization starts.  Your homes are dirty.  They are not dirty with dirt per say they are dirty with things that you can can’t see, can’t taste, and most people can’t feel.   In your walls you have high frequency voltage transients (dirty electricity) riding on your 60 Hz cycle.   How then can you tell what your levels are?  You measure it.  You buy equipment that is designed to measure it.  I have that equipment; some of it is expensive and some of it is not.  The purpose of having it is to show people what they can’t see, taste, or feel.   Electricity is not the only thing in our lives that acts like this.  There are many things like this, the most obvious in a home is radon gas.

How did everything get so dirty?   Without launching into a book, it has to deal with the way all of the modern electronics that we have use power and the growing number of them in people’s homes.   We are accumulating more and more electronics and it is making our homes dirtier and dirtier.   The more that you have, or even your neighbors have, the dirtier your homes will be.

In general, the dirtier that you are, the more likely that you are to get sick.  This holds true for actual dirt as well as dirty electricity.  For most of us this the effect is not acute but chronic.   As you well know chronic illnesses are much harder to deal with.   The high frequency that is riding on these waves can cause a host of problems for humans as shown in research paper after research paper.  The high frequency voltage transients have been linked in research papers and epidemiology studies to, but not limited to, cancer (like brain and leukemia).  In addition, it causes a lot of problems with the central nervous systems and can be traced to disorders such as depression, Lou Gehrig disease, headaches, dizziness, ADHD, immune deficiency, and a host of other problems.

For those that are skeptical, you need not take my word for it.  I can show you on a meter and in many cases more than one kind.   In these instances, I will add filters to address some of these issues;  you will see a change in the measurement every time a filter is added or subtracted.  It is not voodoo.  It is not magic.  It is simply science.

This is a helpful guide to help you clean up your own EMF environment prior to a home inspection or just a guide for a do it yourself type of person.  Anything that you can do to alleviate stress to your body is a good thing.  Control what you can control, minimize anything you can’t control.

First and foremost is to get rid of anything wireless that you can do without.  This will include anything that sends or receives information wirelessly.  Items included would be: Wi-Fi, many models of cordless phones, baby monitors, anything that connects via Bluetooth or wirelessly (such as tablets, laptops, and cellphones).  Many of these items you will have to disable the wireless features in the device settings.

There are many people that no longer have a home phone but for those that do many have a type of cordless phone.  Many of these cordless phone bases will emit a signal even if not in use.  It is this constant emission that is harmful.  Finding a phone that only emits when in use is a better option however finding these types of phones is more difficult.  Buying a phone that uses a cord is your safest and cheapest option.

For many people getting rid of their Wi-Fi is a hard sell.  However, if you are not willing to stand in a microwave oven then you should really rethink your Wi-Fi usage.  Both of these devices operate in the same wave spectrum, which is in microwaves.  A temporary fix until you can have your internet hard wired would be to have your Wi-Fi router on a timer so that it turns off at night, and then turns back on in the morning or during the times that you would need it.  These timers are inexpensive.  There is no reason to have your Wi-Fi on when you are sleeping.  Any device that connects to your router will also emit a signal, you should either shut off that device or deactivate the wireless option when not in use.  If you are using a hand held device, use it in airplane mode as much as possible, if you must use it at all.  Wireless pollution poses the most risk to children; please keep that in mind.

Everywhere that you go you see many items that are advertised as energy efficient which range from light bulbs to all sorts of electronics.  All of these items will create high frequency voltage transients, otherwise known as dirty electricity.  For some of these items, an alternative item could be chosen, and for others using a type of filter would be helpful.  Such items that create dirty electricity are the following: compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFL or “cork-screw lightbulbs”), dimmable LED lights, dimmer switches, most electronic devices, and anything that has a variable frequency drive (example is a treadmill).  All of these devices will create high frequency voltage transients (referred to as dirty electricity or dirty power).

Dimmer switches should be replaced with regular convectional switches with just a simple switch that has an on/off function.  CFL not only create dirty power they also emit a radio frequency so you get two forms of EMF pollution from one device.  These should be replaced as soon as possible.  Suitable replacements would be your old incandescent light bulbs which don’t create either dirty power or radio frequencies but they do use more energy.  Another suitable replacement is LED lights.  However most LED lights that are sold now are dimmable and these all create dirty electricity like CFL light bulbs.

Almost all of your electronics will create dirty power.  I am not advocating getting rid of all your electronics and living like an Old Order Amish, but if you are going to use electronics, use them as safely as possible.  There are filters that will ‘clean up’ part of the pollution that these devices cause.  Installing them where you have electronics makes the filters most effective.  In order to receive the max benefit from the filters you should install them in your whole house.  One filter will not fix all of your house.  This is something that is analyzed during a home inspection and installed at your request as part of the service (the cost of the filters is extra).  The number of filters you will need will be dependent on how many electronics that you have and size of your home.  The average home needs about 20 filters.  High frequency voltage transients can cause many health problems and have been linked to many health problems, most notably cancer.

Variable frequency drives, like a treadmill, should be avoided at all times for they cause an enormous amount of dirty power.  It doesn’t even have to be turned on to create dirty power either, just plugged in.  Running outside is always better and it is free, though admittedly it is much hard during the winter months.

In a perfect world there would be no ground current.  It would all travel in the wires buried in the ground and the poles that we see everywhere.  We don’t live in a perfect world and know that there is ground current everywhere and more than likely it is traveling through your home as well.  There are steps that you can do to minimize these effects, however knowing how much you have is the best way to approach this.  With contact current, every time that you touch something you will receive a charge as current travels through you.  Over the course of the day, all of these charges add up.  There are small things that you can do to minimize this, like using a laptop on battery instead of plugged into the wall.  Another is to get into the habit of “discharging” at night.  What this does is equalize the polarities in your system.  This will help bring you body into balance.  This can be done two ways.  One is simply standing on a piece of aluminum foil at night before you go to bed for minute or two.  All you have to do is stand there don’t touch anything else.  My family and I do this while we brush our teeth before bed.  You can use any type of conductive metal—I use aluminum foil because it is the cheapest.  Another more time consuming, though more relaxing, way to accomplish this, is an Epsom salt bath.  Epsom salt baths have many other beneficial effects that people enjoy and you can add discharging to that list.

Finally, there are number of small things that you can do to improve your environment.  There are many items that we would not think of that can create a rather large magnetic field.  By large I am referring to >100mg.  Some of these items would include digital alarm clocks (that plug into the wall), hair driers, electric toothbrushes, small fans, anything that has a small motor, anything that converts electricity to heat (blankets, car seats, heating pads), and anything else that will take 120v from an outlet and transform it down to a lower usable voltage.  The key with all of these devices is to keep your distance.  They will all create a magnetic field.  This doesn’t mean that you have to get rid of all of them just do not be constantly in the field or near the objects.  The father away that you get the more the magnetic field will dissipate.  This is very important when it comes to the items that you have around your head at night when you sleep.

 

In summary, key points to consider:

• Put your Wi-Fi on a timer so it goes off at night
• Place all of your Wi-Fi devices on “Airplane” mode when not in use
• Remove your CFL (corkscrew) light bulbs and replace dimmer switches
• Do not use a treadmill-enjoy the great outdoors!
• Replace electronic toothbrushes
• Do not use heating blankets or heated mattress pads, especially when sleeping
• Place your alarm clock across the room-not so close to your head
• “Discharge” at night-using aluminum foil or taking an Epsom Salt bath
• Consider installation of filters in your home