Roof Lightning Protection

The speed of lightning current and splitting the flow among multiple paths will not permit components to heat to any instantaneous ignition temperature hazardous to typical building materials.

Roof lightning protection.

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. Advanced roofing provides professional lightning protection installations repairs and recertification services. Instead it works to protect your house from a fire or structural damage if the house is hit by lightning. A lightning protection system doesn t attract lightning or lessen the power of a storm nor does it act as a whole house surge protector to shield delicate electronics.

Harger president ceo harger lightning grounding grayslake ill. Metal roofs do not attract lightning strikes. The only way to protect a building is with a properly designed and installed lightning protection system lps. A metal roof should never have copper lightning protection components installed on it unless the roof metal is copper says mark s.

To prevent galvanic action with roofing and flashings copper components should be used with copper roofing and aluminum components with steel or aluminum roofing. Lightning is a powerful destructive force of nature and will strike a building regardless of its type of roofing. All lps components should be listed by ul specifically for lightning protection.