Dominion Lightning Rod Company Ltd.

Address:
384 Mill St.,
Dundas,, Ontario
L9H 2M1

Phone: 1-800-265-0453
Phone2: 905-628-6452
Website: http://www.dlrc.com
Email: inquiries@dlrc.com

Designers, manufacturers and installers of certified lightning protection systems since 1898.

Dominion Lightning Rod Co. Ltd. is a family business that has developed and installed certified lightning protection systems for everything from barns to the CN Tower.

Can you see the lighting rod in this picture? Today's lightning protection systems are not as conspicuous as they used to be. Installed by professionals, they are remarkably unobtrusive.

Lightning protection systems consist of lightning rods, conductors, and grounding. The lightning rods are positioned at strategic locations where lightning is most likely to strike, such as roof peaks/ridges, dormers, chimneys, cupolas, etc. The system acts as an external shield to provide the path of least resistance to ground for any lightning or atmospheric electrical activity.

Your cottage is susceptible to the same kind of lightning damage that your home is.

*Many cottages are in rocky terrain with poor natural grounding. This means that if you have electricity, telephone, etc. in your cottage, the wiring system will be by far the best path to ground for lightning. It will be even more likely that appliance and wiring damage occur.

*Tall trees can attract lightning and the shallow roots of trees in rocky terrain can channel the lightning to the cottage electrical system. Sideflashes from the trees can cross to the cottage.

*Cottages are unoccupied for long periods of time. Lightning-caused damage can go undetected for quite a while. In particular, a small lightning-caused fire that could easily be put out in an urban setting may cause the whole cottage to burn down because nobody was there to stop it.

* Usually, cottages have even more wood construction than houses. This makes fire damage even more likely.