potions and selectively quotes from random sources of varying credibility to further his sales.
If you feel em fields are a problem then the solution is simple. Pay for the socket to be relocated yourself.
It would be quite wrong for a housing association to spend its funds on doing so when there is no credible evidence that a socket in the position you describe poses any health risk whatsoever.
That makes life easy for us oldies doesn't it? The designers of the complex had some sense.
A plug is around 25mm thick - you woudn't even notice the gap.
Why are you concerned about nothing - and where is the evidence of harm?
I wonder if you use a mobile phone, if so, how close to your head do you hold it? If you do own such an implement, read up on the possible effects of emissions from them - and you'll crap yourself. And I won't wander down the road of people being constantly bombarded by radio and communication emissions.
He is quite correct in that it would not solve your "perceived worries" - he have to strip all the electric wiring from your flat and supply you with candles to solve those. And then you'b scared of a fire breaking out.
Now why would he fob you off when cable "drops" are common in millions of buildings? As for for the expense, would you wish to have your rent and service charges increased because tenants *expect* to have unnecessary works done?
Don't bother "fighting" the decision, you will lose - and think of the stress you will be under then!
I would suggest that you seek treatment for paranoia - and live in dwelling without electricity nor use a radio, computer or television to give you complete peace of mind.
You have no case for getting the HA to shift the socket, and it's not down to cost or difficulty - it is simply not necessary!
Dig into your own pocket and pay for it yourself if your that paranoid - and don't forget to ask the HA for permission to move the socket first.
Or you could simpy trip the breaker to the ring main for the sockets and use the overhead room light - then you'd complain about....
BTW, as a "coffin dodger" why are you so bloody worried about such trifles. Get out and enjoy the world, you could drop dead tomorrow - and your next abode would be rather dark, cold and wet - and you can't complain about that one. ;-)
I discovered that foil works very well. Since all the external walls in my house have aluminium foil between the wallboard and the wiring, I am unable to detect where the wiring is, with any kind of device!
A local activist was whipping up enthusiasm on a Green blog for protests against a new mobile mast near a local school, using all the usual electro- magnetic field arguments.
I pointed out that a base station needs to receive all signals at the same level, so it instructs the mobiles to increase/decrease the trasmit power as appropriate to achieve this. As a result of this, the nearer to the mast the 'phone is, the lower the transmit level and that he might like to concern himself with the reduction in the powerful field generated 2cm from the kid's brains rather than the very much lower field from the mast 200m away.
He acknowledged the validity of the argument, then carried on with his campaign regardless ...
Even if he does get the socket - and wiring - removed at his own expense, unless his bed butts up to an outside wall, what about cables feeding sockets on the other side?
If it's the party wall with a mirror image flat on the other side, I'd say there's a 100% guarantee ...!
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