Pitched Roof Lightning Protection

This minimizes the damage your home will sustain.

Pitched roof lightning protection.

A lightning protection system will not keep your house from being struck by lightning but a properly installed system will instead provide a safe path from the site of the lightning strike which is often on the roof to the ground. Metal roofing becomes the work platform for installing air terminals and exposed conductors. In most homes with pitched roofs air terminals need only be installed at the roof ridge not the perimeter of the roof. To prevent galvanic action with roofing and flashings copper components should be used with copper roofing and aluminum components with steel or aluminum roofing.

Photovoltaic systems and other rooftop equipment must be included in lightning protection system. This explains why lightning protection costs for the home in our study is below the trend line shown for non residential construction. Through roof wall connections kuefler lightning protection through roof wall connections accessories used to make through roof and through wall connections also used for concealed lightning protection systems. All lps components should be listed by ul specifically for lightning protection.