A lightning strike had hit a house in the road and blown a hole in the roof.
Roof house lightning.
The incident also caused a number of sockets to blow at three.
Metal roofing materials are non combustible so if a metal roof does get struck by lightning it is less likely to result in a fire than some other types of roofing materials such as cedar shakes.
Metal roofs do not attract lightning.
A bolt of lightning has blown a hole in the roof of a house in knutsford.
Thunderstorms in chester damaged the roof of a house and caused a number of power sockets in the same road to blow out.
If the roof is covered with combustible materials such as wood shakes or extremely flammable asphalt shingles they are easily ignited as the lightning channels through on its way to the ground via the house s pipes and electrical system.
Location lightning tends to strike the highest point in any terrain but lightning can also be capricious random arbitrary and unpredictable.
This includes water damage which is normally triggered by lightning that has struck a roof and left behind an opening for water.
This is because when lightning strikes a home or building it doesn t matter if the materials it hits can conduct electricity or not.
Fire crews from ellesmere port and powey lane fire stations were called to lumley road at around 6 45pm yesterday monday august 10.
A house struck by lightning is one that can experience a lot of problems even after the damage has occurred.
Surprisingly one of the main fears people hold about metal roofs is without merit.
The hole in the roof of an upstairs bedroom caused by the lightning strike.
Remaining roof tiles on the house became unsafe and fire crews from knutsford and lymm attended on tuesday morning to assess the situation.
A lightning protection system will not keep your house from being struck by lightning but a properly installed system will instead provide a safe path from the site of the lightning strike which is often on the roof to the ground.
The call was to a house fire which we believe started when the roof was struck by lightning.
The strike happened overnight between monday august 10 and tuesday august 11 in bexton road.