Connecticut’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Eastern Connecticut is two landscapes in one county-sized stretch: the shore towns of Mystic and Stonington, where historic sea captains’ homes and waterfront houses take Sound weather head-on, and the rural interior — North Stonington, Griswold, and Voluntown — where dairy farms and farmhouses stand alone in open fields. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
Along the shore, Mystic and Stonington’s homes — many of them historic, with tall chimneys and cupolas above the harbors — face thunderstorms that build over Long Island Sound and Fishers Island Sound and come ashore at full strength. Inland, the Thames valley and the farm towns run rolling and open: dairy barns, horse barns, and silos standing as the tallest points for a mile, with summer cells rolling off the Rhode Island hills. A strike to a chimney or a barn roof can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit on the property.
WB Lightning Rods protects eastern Connecticut the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems for historic shore homes that respect the architecture, and whole-farm packages that design the farmhouse, barns, pole buildings, shops, and silos into one plan. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA.
Shore homes take water-built storms at full strength; inland farms put barns and silos alone in open fields. Eastern Connecticut has both, often on the same road — and both are exactly what a designed system answers.
Mystic and Stonington’s sea captains’ homes need protection that respects the architecture. Low-profile terminals and clean cable runs do the job without changing how a historic house looks.
A working barn holds animals, feed, equipment, and a season of hay. Losing the building is the smallest part of a barn fire — and timber framing with hay storage is a worst case once a strike lands.
One company for the whole property — shore homes, historic homes, dairy farms, horse farms, and shops, anywhere in eastern Connecticut.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Discreet, low-profile systems for Mystic and Stonington historic homes, waterfront houses, and farmhouses — clean runs that respect older architecture.
Discreet, low-profile systems for older farmhouses and historic homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines, protection you have to look for to see.
Barns, stables, and arenas protected along with the residence — horses, hay, and tack, all covered.
Agricultural buildings, equipment shops, and hay storage — the tallest structures on the farm, and the ones lightning finds first.
We protect all of your buildings — main house, dairy barn, horse barns, pole buildings, and silos — with a lifetime of protection. Multi-building packages price the whole property together, so protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Mature oaks, maples, and specimen trees protected with their own terminals and grounding, so a shade tree never becomes the strike path to your roof.
Neighbors who install together save together — neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages for your street, road, or lake shore.
Complete installations and repairs — that’s the work. Already have a system? We inspect it, repair storm damage and wear, and bring older installations up to current NFPA 780 standards. We make old systems great again.
Building new? We design and install protection while the home or barn is going up — cleaner cable runs, nothing retrofitted after the fact.
Every WB system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines using UL-listed materials made in the USA — and designed for eastern Connecticut specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on shore and farm properties alike.
Heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, carrying strike energy safely down and away from the structure.
Deep-driven ground rods at each structure, sized for local soils — shoreline sand at the coast, till and loam inland — so strike energy disperses safely into the earth.
Metal roofing, gutters, water lines, and electrical services bonded to the protection system, so stray current can’t side-flash between metal parts.
Barns, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, boathouses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
An eastern Connecticut property is rarely one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, guest houses, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, barn fans, dock power, and irrigation all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies road by road. Neighboring homes and farms that install in the same trip earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Connecticut statewide, a Stonington shore home and a Griswold farm under the same family are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — shore-style homes, barns, and farmhouses protected by our own crew.
Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your home — fast, accurate, and no obligation. Call 1-800-557-9037.
Our experienced crew installs the system, and every installation is personally supervised by the owner, start to finish.
Lifetime warranty on parts and labor, with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost. Then you watch Connecticut storms the calm way.
Yes — that’s the shape of eastern Connecticut work. Mystic, Stonington, and the shore get coastal-designed systems; North Stonington, Griswold, Voluntown, and the farm towns get whole-farm packages. One company, one standard, anywhere in the east.
Very little, when it’s designed properly. We use low-profile terminals and route heavy conductor cables cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, following the architecture instead of fighting it. Visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, barn fans, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the rods on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy and horse barns, pole barns, shops, and silos under one plan — we protect all of your buildings, with a lifetime of protection, and pricing the property together costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-property packages price multiple buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many are built from satellite imagery of your property — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor.
Yes. When neighboring homes and farms install in the same trip, everyone shares the travel and setup — and we pass that saving on as a neighborhood discount on multi-home packages. It only takes one organizer to get it started.
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