Home Lightning Protection Systems
Serving CT, MA, NY, RI, NH, and VT
What is a Lightning Protection System?
A system of lightning protection for your home consists of several integral components: the lightning rods, conductor cable, and ground rods. The lightning rods are placed along your home’s ridge including dormers, wings, and chimneys. The lightning rods are connected by a conductor cable, which terminates at the ground rods, driven into the ground for a good connection with the earth. This creates a low resistance path to the ground for the lightning to travel, thus preventing damage to the structure and contents preventing lightning from entering your house, protecting occupants.
While lightning rods help protect a structure and all occupants from a direct strike, a complete home lightning protection system, including utility bonding, proper grounding, and surge protection helps prevent harmful electrical surges and possible fires caused by lightning entering a structure via wire and pipes.
Components of a Residential Lightning Protection System
Complete residential lightning protection systems include lightning rods, conductor cables, ground electrodes, utility bonding clamps (for water pipes, sprinkler and gas and/or oil pipes), and surge protection.
Northeast Lightning Protection offers residential lightning protection services to ensure your home is protected.
To learn more about our home lightning protection systems, contact us today!
A properly installed residential lightning protection system meets all current codes and standards, including, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. code 96A, National Fire Protection Association code 780 and Lightning Protection Institute code 175. Northeast Lightning Protection is listed with all the above codes and follows all applicable standards of the lightning protection industry. Lightning protection is a very specific industry, requiring installation specialists such as our highly trained installers who are certified by the Lightning Protection Institute. Thus untrained personnel, such as electricians, roofers, and general contractors are not qualified to install lightning protection systems. A residential lightning protection system like this can be beneficial to all types of applications including barns and houses as well as different roof types including metal roofs.
Northeast Lightning Protection, LLC is a family business that has been providing commercial lightning protection systems and residential lightning protection services to structures in Connecticut (CT), Massachusetts (MA), New York (NY), Rhode Island (RI), New Hampshire (NH) and Vermont (VT), since 1976.
We provide the most advanced residential lightning protection systems according to the codes of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. 96A, Lightning Protection Institute 175, and National Fire Protection Association 780.
