All,
I haven't found much about this here, so I'd better ask.
We installed a wood stove plus metal chimney last year, making it the highest point of the house. It is not connected to ground as the stove sits on the concrete foundation with tiles in between, so it probably does not provide a likely pathway to ground to attract lightning. As we live in the south, severe thunderstorms are common. Most likely it will hit some of the larger trees around us (about 100ft from the house and far taller than it), I still wonder if it makes sense to properly ground the chimney by connecting it to the house's grounding rod. That would require some (ugly) wires running across the roof, but I really don't want a lightning strike to hit the chimney, travel down into the house and arrive at the stove with nowhere to go...
Thanks!
I haven't found much about this here, so I'd better ask.
We installed a wood stove plus metal chimney last year, making it the highest point of the house. It is not connected to ground as the stove sits on the concrete foundation with tiles in between, so it probably does not provide a likely pathway to ground to attract lightning. As we live in the south, severe thunderstorms are common. Most likely it will hit some of the larger trees around us (about 100ft from the house and far taller than it), I still wonder if it makes sense to properly ground the chimney by connecting it to the house's grounding rod. That would require some (ugly) wires running across the roof, but I really don't want a lightning strike to hit the chimney, travel down into the house and arrive at the stove with nowhere to go...
Thanks!