My childhood house was saved by a lightning rod. I heard thunder and then our house shook. I asked my mom what had happened. She said a lightning hit our house and went straight to the ground thanks to the lightning rod. Wow!! In my homeland Costa Rica all houses have a lightning rod.
I guess the same reason the Texas gas, electric, and water utilities didn’t install freeze protection. No one requires it - even though it would be a REALLY GOOD idea to do so.
I live in central Florida lightning capital of the world I believe. Lightning hits around my place all the time in the summer. I can only afford basic protections like surge protectors on sensitive equipment.
We had an old farmhouse in Portsmouth, NH (built in the 1700s) that had lightning rods like Ben Franklin invented. We used to love watching out the window as the lightning hit the rods on our barns!
Many places in Europe seem to have better aspects of their culture than America. Europe uses bidets, don't walk around the house with shoes on, don't gorge themselves on processed food, have tight knit family and friend groups.
Apparently we have one on our house but the lightning has screwed up 4 of our tvs in a month so far so we checked the wiring apparently the wiring was loose on it so hopefully now no more tvs are sacrificed to storms
@Reid James True. And you can get the parts online. But he’s right, it’s a lot of labor if it’s done to NFPA standard. I do question the hourly rate, the final number seems pretty high for a residence.
They're not, you're paying for the labor for installation. I lived in Mexico and for my family living there they were very inexpensive, of course it was the home owners who typically installed them in the town. People would just run a copper wire on the rods with insulation and get it grounded. You can DIY a few yourself if you don't want to pay the service.
If you have smaller house, just use normal iron/steel rod, deep into ground, weld some metal mesh(fence) on it in the ground,burry it, and fill the hole with salt and carbon/ash. Rod should be as high as from the tip 45angle down should cover whole house. It basically cost nothing to make it.
Thaty lightening rod looked like mnay could handle it. Why don't they explain the lightening rod they were holding? Was it copper? How do you install it, and must it be connected to the ground??
Early morning 5/28/2024 there was a bad storm in the Dallas area. I went into work late. On my commute home I saw a home that looked like it had exploded from the inside center outwards. I am getting rods installed ASAFP.
Use aluminium wires like the ones used in high tension transmission. You only need the rod to be copper and the ground in the earth itself to be copper and maybe you could get away with the rod being aluminium.
why pay $5000, get 10 jumper cables, mount one side on the roof and bury the other side 1m deep underground, you attach the other end with a metal bucket too. you will be happier that you made it
20 strikes per square miles per year, 20m x 20m is an average area of a house, this leads to 1600m x 1600m = 2560000m^2 / (20m x 20m x 20 strikes) = takes 320 years to get a lightening strike to your house. if they say you need to mesh up many lightening rods even bound to the water pipes, this seems an overkill by forming the faraday cage. the reason sellers dont use a tall rod is you give the lightening umbrella to your neighhors. then they cant sell many rods. a 50cm x 80cm metal slab is expensive, but the metal bucket made of that same metal slab is dirt cheap 1 or 2 bucks, even free in junky yards. mass production is cheap. yes $50 can make one rod system that can protect your house.
@@flip0345 you can make the cable grip a piece of metal like Aluminum and mount it. a junk aluminun rod is easy to find in a window frame shop or you can find a stainless steel in your kitchen, maybe a useless frying pan can do after peeling off coating, anything to make it taller always helps
Reporter goes through a series of difficulties to catch information of a small business owners local capabilities to stop the complete and total destruction of someone's house during an epic of storms that raise the need for such protection Anchor immediately shits on the price and laughs it off
They are so expensive because of all the copper used to ground. They were a lot cheaper Before Clinton did his China Trade act where china sucked up all the materials like copper for wiring and plumbing
My childhood house was saved by a lightning rod. I heard thunder and then our house shook. I asked my mom what had happened. She said a lightning hit our house and went straight to the ground thanks to the lightning rod. Wow!! In my homeland Costa Rica all houses have a lightning rod.
I guess the same reason the Texas gas, electric, and water utilities didn’t install freeze protection. No one requires it - even though it would be a REALLY GOOD idea to do so.
$5,000 for just a metal rod, grounding wire and conduit? Seems like something you can do for under $100?
Labor costs
We did this for 200 usd in our home.
What kind of labor would that cost. Do it yourself @@usnva5638
I live in central Florida lightning capital of the world I believe. Lightning hits around my place all the time in the summer. I can only afford basic protections like surge protectors on sensitive equipment.
This video says Houston is the lightning capital of the world. Seems like that’s a title a lot of people claim.
@@ThinWhiteLuke No, listen to it again they said that Houston is the lightning capital of Texas.
Come to Africa
We had an old farmhouse in Portsmouth, NH (built in the 1700s) that had lightning rods like Ben Franklin invented. We used to love watching out the window as the lightning hit the rods on our barns!
In Europe almost all residential and commercial buildings have them.
Many places in Europe seem to have better aspects of their culture than America. Europe uses bidets, don't walk around the house with shoes on, don't gorge themselves on processed food, have tight knit family and friend groups.
lightning rods bleed off electrons so you don't get struck.
I think most people are concerned it could send you back to the year...1955.
Apparently we have one on our house but the lightning has screwed up 4 of our tvs in a month so far so we checked the wiring apparently the wiring was loose on it so hopefully now no more tvs are sacrificed to storms
Stop watching TV during lightning storms 😂 me and my wife turn TVs and game systems off during storms.
@@ThinWhiteLuke i watch until the satellite loses signal
But why make them so ridiculously expensive?
Right. A modest DIY rod or two would Give you at least some protection.
@Reid James True. And you can get the parts online. But he’s right, it’s a lot of labor if it’s done to NFPA standard. I do question the hourly rate, the final number seems pretty high for a residence.
They're not, you're paying for the labor for installation. I lived in Mexico and for my family living there they were very inexpensive, of course it was the home owners who typically installed them in the town. People would just run a copper wire on the rods with insulation and get it grounded. You can DIY a few yourself if you don't want to pay the service.
4k is a ripoff for something that simple. You're just running a wire to ground. This guy smirking knows he's looking for suckers.
If you have smaller house, just use normal iron/steel rod, deep into ground, weld some metal mesh(fence) on it in the ground,burry it, and fill the hole with salt and carbon/ash. Rod should be as high as from the tip 45angle down should cover whole house. It basically cost nothing to make it.
Thaty lightening rod looked like mnay could handle it. Why don't they explain the lightening rod they were holding? Was it copper? How do you install it, and must it be connected to the ground??
Early morning 5/28/2024 there was a bad storm in the Dallas area. I went into work late. On my commute home I saw a home that looked like it had exploded from the inside center outwards. I am getting rods installed ASAFP.
That seems like an awfully high price for a rod and a cable that goes to the ground
Just recently in Ottawa Canada, 4 homes were hit by lightning the same night in the same storm.
so what happens to these rods in a bad hail storm?
All good until the tweakers drive by and steal your copper
Use aluminium wires like the ones used in high tension transmission.
You only need the rod to be copper and the ground in the earth itself to be copper and maybe you could get away with the rod being aluminium.
They would have to "fly" by then. Lightning rods have to be installed on the highest part of the house roof.
Keep a spare as a spear
you have a decoy connected to the 240 , 2 problems solved.
Till they get electrucued for stealing
That last line just killed the motivation of the video
why pay $5000, get 10 jumper cables, mount one side on the roof and bury the other side 1m deep underground, you attach the other end with a metal bucket too. you will be happier that you made it
regular price = $50, tv news story price = $5000
20 strikes per square miles per year, 20m x 20m is an average area of a house, this leads to 1600m x 1600m = 2560000m^2 / (20m x 20m x 20 strikes) = takes 320 years to get a lightening strike to your house. if they say you need to mesh up many lightening rods even bound to the water pipes, this seems an overkill by forming the faraday cage. the reason sellers dont use a tall rod is you give the lightening umbrella to your neighhors. then they cant sell many rods. a 50cm x 80cm metal slab is expensive, but the metal bucket made of that same metal slab is dirt cheap 1 or 2 bucks, even free in junky yards. mass production is cheap. yes $50 can make one rod system that can protect your house.
U want jumper cables hanging from your roof?
@@flip0345 you can make the cable grip a piece of metal like Aluminum and mount it. a junk aluminun rod is easy to find in a window frame shop or you can find a stainless steel in your kitchen, maybe a useless frying pan can do after peeling off coating, anything to make it taller always helps
It makes sense
It's copperfield
Funny enough i got here trying to coming up with a Pokémon name
i got here by researching Manectric xD
Dude sells lightning rods and dont even understand how they work.
Reporter goes through a series of difficulties to catch information of a small business owners local capabilities to stop the complete and total destruction of someone's house during an epic of storms that raise the need for such protection
Anchor immediately shits on the price and laughs it off
Shit five grand 😅. I did mine for $250.00.But I build houses for a living so it was easy for me.
bc they are old world tartaria tech for getting aether
Cuz almost NOBODY drives a Hurst Olds anymore
1 comet wich is me and one like wich is me but 75 views
They are so expensive because of all the copper used to ground. They were a lot cheaper Before Clinton did his China Trade act where china sucked up all the materials like copper for wiring and plumbing