Massachusetts’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
South of Boston, Massachusetts runs two ways at once: the South Shore’s coastal towns — Hingham, Cohasset, Duxbury, and Plymouth — with historic homes under tall pines facing the bay, and the South Coast’s farm country — Dartmouth, Westport, and the towns around New Bedford and Fall River — where dairy farms and barns stand in open fields near the water. Summer storms come off the ocean at both. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, shops, and garages, every building covered.
From Hingham and Scituate through Duxbury and Plymouth to Marion, Mattapoisett, Dartmouth, and Westport, the south-facing coast mixes two kinds of exposure. On the South Shore, big historic and custom homes stand on wooded, rocky lots above the bay, with tall pines over the roofs. On the South Coast, working dairy and produce farms spread across open coastal fields, their barns and silos the tallest points around. Sea-breeze storms fire off Buzzards Bay and the open Atlantic all summer, and a strike to a chimney or barn roof can tear masonry, ignite framing or hay, and send destructive current through every circuit on the property.
WB Lightning Rods protects South Shore and South Coast properties the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: discreet, low-profile systems for coastal and historic homes, whole-farm packages for the farm country, and grounding designed for both rocky shore lots and coastal farm soils. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
South Shore and South Coast homes take thunderstorms and ocean storm lines at full strength. On shore ground, the roofline is the tallest point around — and the strike zone starts there.
Westport and Dartmouth barns, sheds, and silos stand in open coastal fields — the tallest structures for a mile, holding animals, feed, and milking equipment.
The South Shore’s older homes carry old-growth timber under tall pines. Trees and rooftops share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
One company for the whole property — coastal homes, historic homes, dairy farms, barns, and shops, anywhere on the South Shore and South Coast.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems designed around coastal living — South Shore and South Coast homes from Hingham to Westport, with clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines.
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, barns, shops, garages, 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 the South Shore and South Coast specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on South Shore and South Coast 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, designed for local ground — rocky shore lots and coastal farm soils included, with grounding sized for each — 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, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A South Shore or South Coast property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, barns, shops, garages, and outbuildings, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, milk-house power, pool equipment, and HVAC all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street and road by road. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Massachusetts statewide, a Duxbury home and a Westport farm under the same owner are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — coastal homes, dairy 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 Massachusetts storms the calm way.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy 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.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, milk-house power, 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.
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. When several homes or 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.
A tall pine 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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