Cuttwood

I have a relative working for NTT, in Europe. Hmmm...

Also, does anyone know how I can turn my home into a faraday cage? I'm close to building my own home and I want to make it radio-free by design. No wireless, no radio, no mobile phones.

Anything that can point me in the right direction will be appreciated.

qwop

You don't need a bunker. Microwaves are very easy to block. All you need is a tight enough mesh of a conductive material like silver or metal.

Blankets like these have been sold for years already to people who are EMF sensitive. Search for "EMF protection fabrics". You can build clothes out of them, make a bed cover, or line your windows and walls with this material. It's the easiest and quickest solution by far.

Cuttwood

Wow. That's exactly what I was looking for. I also found this: www.aaronia.de - seems exactly bang on.

qwop

Good find. There are also makers of EMF shielding paint, that I would definitely paint all my walls with if I was building a new home. Here's one example, but you should be able to find many others:

https://en.geovital.com/products/electronic-pollution/shielding-paint-t98alpha/

DishingShitLikeA

All the replies are good suggestions but one is missing. Live somewhere with no cell service.

qwop

Solstiare

Line the walls under the finish material with 24/26 gauge galvanized steel. Earth ground it. Should also block the peeper vans the cops use to find targets to invent probable cause for raiding.

TinLegionnaire

Other than building a straight-up bunker the only thing that I can think of that would be vaguely practical (using that term lightly) would be to build something like a geodesic dome and cover it with 1 inch wire mesh ( kinda like this chicken coupe )

I think that's narrow enough for 5g, the holes have to be narrower than the peak-to-peak amplitude of the broadcast to block it (you're essentially building an inverted satellite dish)

If you're phone doesn't get reception inside of it, congrats you've done it.

laying the same wire mesh under the floor and using metal doors would seal off your faraday-house.

Also any windows would need a similar mesh (think the window to a microwave)

Almost might as well build the bunker at that point though... the geodesic dome and mesh would make a good frame for spray-crete.

Just a thought.

Ialwayssaythis

You can always build an earthbag house and stucco the outside? The wire from the stucco and 2 foot thick earthen walls would go a long way to blocking microwave radiation.

TinLegionnaire

Probably would be nicely insulated too, it'd basically be an "above ground" bunker.

Might almost be worth it to dig a couple foot deep hole to excavate your bagfill material, build a half wall so the structure is partially underground, then doing the stucco thing like you mentioned...

I think I'd almost want a concrete dome at that point though. Maybe the earthbags for thermal mass/insulation...

I've made a geodesic dome out of conduit before and it was pretty strong... would just need one with smaller vertices and better metal, maybe steel pipe or even sucker rod...

Weld it together, cover with mesh and bags... maybe another layer of mesh... Personally I'd almost try to plant some stuff on it. Not just grass because then you'd end up with the teletubbies house

Whatever extra you spent on materials you'd eventually make back in never needing AC.

A huge house would be a challenge but a studio-apartment sized one could almost be built solo.

Ialwayssaythis

Depends on your water table. My place is actually elevated a bit. As I am in a mild flood zone. I have lived in 310 sq feet with my wife and sun for a year. Off grid. All solar/ wood. Earthbag is fucking amazing. 1 cord of wood heats the little cabin ALL YEAR.

DishingShitLikeA

Heating it for a year with a cord of wood and your sun in there is cheating I think.

UnknownAlias365

Not looking forward to 5G.

Ialwayssaythis

Don't buy it and tell your friends to do the same. They NEED us to buy it for it to be affordable. Also, if you can find a way, damage the transmitters. They probably aren't bulletproof yet.