Professional Residential EMF Testing Checklist
This post, from our Elexana website, is so important that I felt it should be repeated here, as my #1 post. To think that buying a couple of meters or hiring some local “EMF Expert” is not an almost complete waste of money, is a mistake. No matter who you hire, this is the checklist of testings which need to be performed at your home. And, these tests need to be administered correctly.
So, you just hired someone to inspect and assess your home’s electromagnetic environment and to provide you and your family with the best required solutions to bring you some peace of mind. To accomplish this and ensure that you get a professional EMF survey of your home, here is a checklist.
Professional Residential EMF Testing Checklist:
We assess every frequency in your home, from 0 Hz to 40 GHz, using IEC/ISO 17025-certified, calibrated equipment. Our reports follow IEEE procedures and are legal documents that are completely defensible in a court of law. We do not make safety determinations, but we can refer you to international standards and various peer-reviewed studies. In the end, we prefer to follow a precautionary guideline, use terms such as 'actionable' rather than 'severe' or 'extreme,' and follow the ALARA Principle: As Low As Reasonably Achievable.
Stray Current can enter your building through the ground, water, gas, or coaxial internet service lines. It is measured in amperes and flux density. — We have solutions to remedy these issues.
An assessment check and measurement of the entire grounding system. These tests comprise the EGC Equipment Ground Conductor System and the Overload Lightning Protection System. Elexana has a proprietary testing we developed for this assessment. (We can also measure the correct resistance on your grounding system and conduct a soil resistivity test with a state-of-the-art 4-point ground rod testing, upon request.) Yes, whatever we find has an appropriate solution.
AC Magnetic Fields, both indoors and outdoors, are measured. We assess, identify, and isolate the size, shape, coupled frequency bands, velocity, and intersecting fields. We identify the source points and propose the best solutions. Most issues can be remedied.
We can show you the AC Magnetic emissions from your appliances and other source points such as power lines, electrical conduits, and risers. We identify wiring errors and can provide instructions to your electrician for fixing them.
The airborne AC Electric Fields are measured in V/m. (Please know that powering OFF a bedroom can sometimes increase the electric field flux density in a room, rather than diminish it.)
DC Magnetic Fields are measured in Gauss. Although rare, geomagnetic stress can be an issue in some areas, depending on the location.
Epidermal Voltage is often measured at the workstations and sleeping areas to help determine and remediate source points. Often, this occurs during an assessment for EMF-sensitive clients.
Dirty Electricity (DE)—I dislike the term because it is inaccurate: We used to measure it on the electrical lines, but now, we only measure these frequencies in the air, because line measurements usually do not translate to what is produced in the environment.
We measure RF from 1 MHz to 40 GHz. We measure below 1.0 MHz as E-fields.
A full and final conclusive EMF assessment of all emissions entering the home from outdoors or the surrounding apartments versus what is actually produced within the home. This determines what is controlled (what can be fixed) versus what is uncontrolled, which may not be fixable depending on its source.