It has been observed that installing a metal roof makes building owners think more about lightning and the dangers of lightning strikes. There is a perception, or at least a suspicion, that a metal ...

Reid Granger recently moved from Virginia to Florida, and built a new house with a steel roof in Chiefland. When he read a recent Gainesville Sun story about the high likelihood of lightning striking ...

Harger Lightning & Grounding proudly introduces its new Ground Rod Driver. The Ground Rod Driver provides a safe, simple, effective and affordable way to install ground rods. The Ground Rod Driver ...

The standard way of protecting buildings (and their occupants) from lightning is pretty simple: You stick a lightning rod on the roof, and then some kind of conducting channel that takes the huge ...

I had been noticing a whole series of lightning rods mounted on roof peaks at a nearby shopping mall. They all looked like this: Figure 1 Lightning rod mounted on roof peak. I wondered what purpose ...

About this time each year, I begin to wonder about lightning rods. Loud storms have something to do with it. I also spend too many hours this time of year traveling a rural road where a small, ...