Massachusetts’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Boston’s suburbs and the North Shore hold some of New England’s finest and oldest housing stock: historic colonials and custom homes in Newton, Wellesley, Brookline, Concord, and Lexington, coastal homes from Marblehead and Manchester-by-the-Sea to Newburyport, and Hamilton’s horse country in between. Tall oaks and maples stand over the rooftops, summer storms roll off the ocean and the harbor, and every chimney is the tallest point on its street. We protect the whole property: main house, guest houses, barns, and shops, every building covered.
From the inner suburbs through Concord and Lexington to the North Shore’s coastal towns, the pattern is consistent: large, often historic homes on wooded lots, with mature trees above the rooflines and complex roofs full of chimneys, dormers, and cupolas. Sea-breeze fronts and summer storm lines come off the Atlantic at full strength, and a strike to a chimney or ridgeline can tear masonry, ignite old-growth timber framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house. In a home that has stood for two centuries, that loss can’t be rebuilt.
WB Lightning Rods protects Boston-area and North Shore properties the way we’ve protected fine homes since 1950: discreet, low-profile systems designed around the architecture — terminals and cable runs you have to look for to see — with grounding engineered for rocky New England ground. Hamilton’s barns and arenas are designed into the same property plans. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Metro Boston and North Shore homes carry old-growth timber, historic masonry, and detail no modern build reproduces. Protection is designed to be discreet — and to work every storm.
Oaks, maples, and pines tower over rooftops in every suburb, and trees are among the first things lightning finds. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
Hamilton and the surrounding towns are Massachusetts’ horse country — barns, arenas, and paddocks on open ground, holding animals, hay, and tack. A barn fire is the worst-case loss protection is built to prevent.
One company for the whole property — historic and custom homes, coastal homes, horse barns, and shops, anywhere in Metro Boston and the North Shore.
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 Newton, Wellesley, Concord, and Lexington historic and custom homes and North Shore coastal properties — clean runs that respect the 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, guest houses, barns, shops, and outbuildings — 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 Metro Boston and the North Shore specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on Boston-area and North Shore properties.
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, engineered for rocky New England ground — glacial till and ledge included, with layout adjusted for shallow soils — 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.
Guest houses, barns, arenas, pole barns, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Boston-area property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, guest house, barns, shops, and garages, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, pool equipment, gate operators, and barn fans all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors on the same street who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Massachusetts statewide, a Newton home and a second property on the Cape or in the Berkshires are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations on estate properties — rods fitted to rooflines and chimneys with a low-profile finish that respects the architecture.
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 Massachusetts storms the calm way.
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. On most historic homes, visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out — but it is working every storm.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a fence, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, pool equipment, and electronics. That’s why grounding and bonding matter as much as the terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes — and we recommend it. Every structure on the property is designed into one plan: main house, guest house, barns, arenas, and shops, each with its own terminals, conductors, and grounding, priced together as a property package.
Yes. When several homes on the same street 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’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
A tall oak or maple close to the house can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We offer lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. 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.
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