Technician inspected home after a lighting strike Tech found that the back bedroom/ breakfast area and family room circuits had been damaged by lighting, tech removed the damaged portion of the wires and installed a junction box to the circuits to repair the circuits and make them safe Tech found that the lighting surge destroyed the refrigerator, oven and GFCI outlets outside and in the hallway bathroom (3 GFCI outlets) Tech replaced the GFCI outlets Tech replaced 2 outdated carbon monoxide/smoke detectors (outside master bedroom and in hallway) Tech installed a grounding system consisting of 2 ground rods and a continuous ground wire from both ground rods to the main breaker panel Tech removed the old ground wire that went to the old single ground rod Tech installed a whole house surge protector under the panel on its own 240 volt 20 amp breaker per manufacturer specs
