When we were talking about Lightning Protection Institute (LPI) and UL certified vs non-certified installers, people were asking why they needed to worry about that. They said they checked the Better Business Bureau and the non-certified installer had an excellent rating. Well, I can't say whether the non-certified installers working here in the Villages do the correct job or not since I haven't been able to look at any of these installations but the first two pictures below shows incorrect work done here in the Villages. I have no idea when this system was installed or by whom but clearly running the grounding cable from the air terminal over the aluminum siding facia along with the tight angles from the roof to the side of the house is clearly incorrect. I've seen this type of installation on more than one home here in the Villages. See the first two attached photos for the incorrect installation and the remaining three for the correct installation. Note one of the correct photo's shows the cable from the roof making a gentile arc over the gutter while the next photo shows the cable going through the roof through the soffit. Either method is acceptable. What is wrong is in the second photo where the cable tightly running aroung the siding and gutter to get from the roof to the side of the house to the grounding rod.
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