Dream house has an electricity substation!!!

[FluffyCubs]

We can't proceed, can we? Apparently, it reduces viewings by 60% and that's before factoring in health issues etc. So disappointed.... Can't believe I was talking about naming it yesterday!

Nobody would buy that, would they? Or am I being over dramatic

Those "Tin Foil Hat" comments really piss me off, tbh. My friend, professor of physics at an Oxford college, ie definitely knows what he's talking about - told me he'd walk away too....and that's good enough for me.

(He also reiterated that if it was even slightly further ie one house away, it would be OK, but backing onto the garden and right below our bedrooms/ no.)

yes, because it will be noisy right next to the house. And because so many flick their hair through their science lessons and then think 'radiation'.

There's no point blubbering about efields from a substation when you have your brick-phone permanently about your person, your house full of wiring and wi-fi all around us.

no current evidence for issues. Doesn't mean there aren't any (science is about an open mind) but logical thought is also about correct assessment of relative risk.

Being a professor of physics does not necessarily mean he has the foggiest about risk weighted assessments of localised electro magnetic fields.

There has been research for decades and no statistical link has yet been found.

We are constantly bathed in the EMF that is sunlight
and the EMF that is radiation from the earth's core
and the EMF that is starlight

I'm not clear how a transformer station at the end of the garden would give you more of an EMF dose that the electric wires running under every floor in your house.

Well, at least it will not be using petrol driven garden tools at every opportunity, building its own patio and holding barbeque parties into the small hours when you need to go to work in the morning. Not a bad neighbour, really.

It's a perfectly rational decision not to buy a house because it has something that might make it difficult to sell. Not tin foil hat thinking at all. And if the OP gets a bargain she will probably have to sell it for a bargain price also.

buy a house cheaper, sell it cheaper.

well, er, yes. How else would it work?

I do agree that with the levels of scientific ignorance in this country it may be harder to sell, and that is a fair factor to consider.

Never even occurred to me this would be a problem - our house is attached to a substation! Pretty common round here, they put them down the little mews lanes so I've seen a fair few.

Genuinely never heard any sort of humming from it, and I have pretty sensitive hearing. I've heard it from others, don't know if ours is a different type (maybe because of proximity to housing?) But it's by far the quietest neighbour I've ever had!

Dp still adamant he wouldn't touch a house within 250m of a substation with a barge pole. the current being carried below your floorboards and from your lighting is very very different to the currents being fed in to a substation from a 250 house estate.

Other countries simply do not allow housing to be built so close to substations and pylons. And some have banned wifi in nurseries and preschools, have they not..

Other countries simply do not allow housing to be built so close to substations and pylons.
So are there no substations in Central Paris?
Or Rome?
Or New York except for the massive on on 14th Street that blew up during Superstorm Sandy
Or Barcelona?
Or Mumbai
Or Mexico City?

Get real - there are substations dotted all over major cities, they are just out of sight out of mind

And some have banned wifi in nurseries and preschools, have they not..
No, they have not

If housing in other countries isn't built near substations how would they get their electricity?

I sold a hard to sell house last year and if def put me off getting involved with another, but it has its place. If it were a fab area and you could otherwise not afford to live there for example

Many buildings have their own substations, sometimes built inside or adjacent to the building.

Hospitals, factories,schools, offices- particularly if the have large power requirements because of computer networks or server rooms. Universities and shopping malls often have their own substation.
Unless you avoid cities, workplaces and supermarkets you are never far from a substation.

Our next nearest substations, in every direction, are under 500m away. Obviously possible to avoid if you live in a suburb where houses are further apart and substations serve a geographically larger area but in a city centre you could easily be within 250m and not have a clue (some of our local ones are concealed) or be unable to be further than that from one.

As PP says, we need electricity so they've got to go somewhere and in densely populated areas they'll often be pretty close together

If you avoid cities, workplaces and supermarkets, and towns, and villages, there is probably a pole-mounted transformer quite close to your house.

hydro power lines cause higher rate of miscarriages, still births and neonatal deaths.

where did you find evidence to support that allegation?

Are you sure it's not a man cave?
or that a little Korean gentleman and his lady wife didn't put it there?

I think you should really listen to it, and on that basis decide whether to buy.

stats canada has the info re power lines and baby deaths.

stats canada has the info re power lines and baby deaths.
Link please.

Ah, I think that amarmai might be referring to this page
www.albertasurfacerights.com/articles/?id=45
Which while fascinating has no evidence at all
and actually advocates putting the power lines underground for aesthetic reasons ..... so even nearer to the people

thats not a substation.

read this: Section 3 is the most relevant but the rest of it also explains what many don't know.

www.ipem.ac.uk/Portals/0/Images/Sense%20about%20Science.pdf

Sense About Science have no axe to grind, they just want to encourage logical and critical thinking and asking for evidence. Real evidence.

of course if you are worried; lose the brick-phone, remove electrical supplies from your house, don't use wi-fi.

And they are real people : I know a couple of the ones on Page 19.

the stats canada data i saw a long time ago[ you'll have to do your own googling] was accompanied with maps showing different colored concentric circles around hydro fields . The index to the colors showed mortality %s from in utero to first year of life. It convinced me not to buy a house near a hydro field.

If we're allowed to make assertions with no evidence, I assert that substations are good for you and improve your memory and skin tone.

You can google it yourself.