Sounds like a standard CYA inserted paragraph, but is the power lines at the back of the site normal or part of some grid infrastructure?
Load of tosh. Some people claim it gives them headaches/etc but no scientific evidence for it. No worries at all.
I’d not have concern about my health, but FYI – nearby pylons would make the house more difficult to sell.
New age codswallop. I bet you it’s not even high voltage in those cables. Page 5 and 6 cover the voltages you see. There’s zero chance that cables controlled by a farmer are high voltage cables.
I will be contrary to what all others here are saying. No comment on the cancer thing, only on the market forces. Most people wouldn’t want to live very near big electrical pylons. This means most people won’t want to buy that house and that it’s value is lower than other comps. The price is probably the reason why you are interested in the first place. If you don’t care, and you never plan to sell, then you’re potentially getting a bit of a bargain, fair play. If you plan to sell, know that >50% of buyers would not be interested. It’s also standard CYa. Those documents are full of extreme boilerplate CYA.
Source: I am in the game.
I don’t want to live near big pylons and it’s just pure aesthetics
Lol, no, it wouldn’t concern me in the slightest. Haven’t you ever heard of the inverse square law? You get more electromagnetic radiation from that phone in your hand than from that power line two hundred metres away, for fecks sake.
Seems more like they include it so they can’t be blamed for *not* including it.
Humans cannot detect electromagnetic radiation below infra red or beyond the visible light range. Whilst very high power radio frequency fields, typically very close to radio transmitters can have heating effect, the paragraph as written is complete bollocks and no surveyor should include it
My main concern seeing that in the report would be that it’d start me questioning the competency of the surveyor as it’s complete bollox.
Had the exact same wording in the report. I think you might be getting reports from the same lad I used. English guy with a name that begins with a G? If so, he’s excellent. Don’t think he believes EM waves to be harmful but he’s in the west cork area often, which is a bit alternative to say the least.
If you DM me the address of the property I’ll let you know exactly what’s in the ground.
That’s boiler plate language I’d imagine.
The paragraph before highlights your Surveyor things it is total BS but some gobsh1tes might believe it so your potential buyer pool is lower when you come to sell.
No more, no less.
I wouldn’t buy near big pylons, and would be reluctant near smaller poles. Less worried about ‘cancer risk’, more worried about humming (because I can hear the hum) but also ongoing property values.
To me it reads more as a warning that the cables might affect the planning of any future building you might want to put in the back garden (plus a “some people are afraid to live near Cables, so this might affect the value” speil). A potential problem for planning rather than living in the house.
It looks similar to a warning about ‘party walls’.
If you don’t plan on applying for permission to build anything substantial in the back garden, I wouldn’t worry about it.
It won’t kill you within the next 100 years so I wouldn’t give 2 fks to be honest
Ignore it. Total waffle put in to bulk up report. Has no place in it in my opinion.
A lot of red flags there
Surveyors are as dangerous as Estate Agents. Their only competency is talking absolute dribble and they bring nothing but total uncertainty to one of the biggest decisions of most people’s lives.
As someone with a masters of electrical engineering, regulations provide an ample exclusion zone. I wouldn’t be all too concerned. I would say the value of the home would be undervalued as a result of overhead cables in the landscape but that’s it. It does read as a default text in this case
Absolute nonsense. Definitely a CYA from some conspiracy theorist who also happens to do surveys.
Not brave enough to try and give you a firm “don’t buy it” because that would land them in trouble but happy to engage in scaremongering with no evidence to back it up.
Use a different surveyor.
r/titlegore
This is fine, just carry a small FM radio with you so it can act as an alarm system, when it goes haywire stop, drop and roll.
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Sounds like a standard CYA inserted paragraph, but is the power lines at the back of the site normal or part of some grid infrastructure?
Load of tosh. Some people claim it gives them headaches/etc but no scientific evidence for it. No worries at all.
I’d not have concern about my health, but FYI – nearby pylons would make the house more difficult to sell.
New age codswallop. I bet you it’s not even high voltage in those cables. Page 5 and 6 cover the voltages you see. There’s zero chance that cables controlled by a farmer are high voltage cables.
https://www.cru.ie/wp-content/uploads/2002/07/cer0221.pdf
The whole power cables cause cancer nonsense was debunked decades ago, be grand.
Seems to be inconsistent research results
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/15541-research-breakthrough-on-health-effects-of-pylons
I will be contrary to what all others here are saying. No comment on the cancer thing, only on the market forces. Most people wouldn’t want to live very near big electrical pylons. This means most people won’t want to buy that house and that it’s value is lower than other comps. The price is probably the reason why you are interested in the first place. If you don’t care, and you never plan to sell, then you’re potentially getting a bit of a bargain, fair play. If you plan to sell, know that >50% of buyers would not be interested. It’s also standard CYa. Those documents are full of extreme boilerplate CYA.
Source: I am in the game.
I don’t want to live near big pylons and it’s just pure aesthetics
Lol, no, it wouldn’t concern me in the slightest. Haven’t you ever heard of the inverse square law? You get more electromagnetic radiation from that phone in your hand than from that power line two hundred metres away, for fecks sake.
Seems more like they include it so they can’t be blamed for *not* including it.
Humans cannot detect electromagnetic radiation below infra red or beyond the visible light range. Whilst very high power radio frequency fields, typically very close to radio transmitters can have heating effect, the paragraph as written is complete bollocks and no surveyor should include it
My main concern seeing that in the report would be that it’d start me questioning the competency of the surveyor as it’s complete bollox.
Had the exact same wording in the report. I think you might be getting reports from the same lad I used. English guy with a name that begins with a G? If so, he’s excellent. Don’t think he believes EM waves to be harmful but he’s in the west cork area often, which is a bit alternative to say the least.
If you DM me the address of the property I’ll let you know exactly what’s in the ground.
That’s boiler plate language I’d imagine.
The paragraph before highlights your Surveyor things it is total BS but some gobsh1tes might believe it so your potential buyer pool is lower when you come to sell.
No more, no less.
I wouldn’t buy near big pylons, and would be reluctant near smaller poles. Less worried about ‘cancer risk’, more worried about humming (because I can hear the hum) but also ongoing property values.
To me it reads more as a warning that the cables might affect the planning of any future building you might want to put in the back garden (plus a “some people are afraid to live near Cables, so this might affect the value” speil). A potential problem for planning rather than living in the house.
It looks similar to a warning about ‘party walls’.
If you don’t plan on applying for permission to build anything substantial in the back garden, I wouldn’t worry about it.
It won’t kill you within the next 100 years so I wouldn’t give 2 fks to be honest
Ignore it. Total waffle put in to bulk up report. Has no place in it in my opinion.
A lot of red flags there
Surveyors are as dangerous as Estate Agents. Their only competency is talking absolute dribble and they bring nothing but total uncertainty to one of the biggest decisions of most people’s lives.
As someone with a masters of electrical engineering, regulations provide an ample exclusion zone. I wouldn’t be all too concerned. I would say the value of the home would be undervalued as a result of overhead cables in the landscape but that’s it. It does read as a default text in this case
Absolute nonsense. Definitely a CYA from some conspiracy theorist who also happens to do surveys.
Not brave enough to try and give you a firm “don’t buy it” because that would land them in trouble but happy to engage in scaremongering with no evidence to back it up.
Use a different surveyor.
r/titlegore
This is fine, just carry a small FM radio with you so it can act as an alarm system, when it goes haywire stop, drop and roll.