Roof Lightning Protection System Installation

Advanced roofing provides professional lightning protection installations repairs and recertification services.

Roof lightning protection system installation.

The main conductors perform the current carrying function from the strike termination devices to the grounding system. Our lightning protection division is fully licensed bonded and insured with more than ten years of experience protecting buildings from the risks of a direct or indirect lighting strike. Metal roofs do not attract lightning strikes. Through roof penetrations should be kept to a minimum and be sealed by a qualified roofing contractor he adds.

Lightning is a powerful destructive force of nature and will strike a building regardless of its type of roofing. Installing lightning protection systems in the home costs between 436 and 2 515 averaging most homeowners 1 422. Nor do metal roofs protect a building against lightning. Also harger feels it is imperative that the installation contractor follow the roofing manufacturer s requirements when it comes to attaching lightning protection components to the roof surface.

A single lightning bolt is hotter than the surface of the sun. The installation shall comprise air networks connected to roof and down conductors and finally terminated in earth electrodes via structural re bars and suitable test points in accordance with the details included on the attached drawings or in the specification section. The conductor system component of complete lightning protection includes main sized cables the structural steel of a building and bonding or interconnection wires to internal grounded building systems.