Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Fox Chapel’s homes sit in some of the most heavily wooded ground in Allegheny County — tall oaks and maples over steep lots along Squaw Run and the Allegheny River hills. A tree taller than the roofline is a strike path waiting to happen. We protect the whole property: the house, the garage, the outbuildings — and the trees themselves.
Fox Chapel is a borough built into the woods. Homes stand on steep, tree-covered lots above Squaw Run and the side valleys of the Allegheny River, in Aspinwall, Sharpsburg, Blawnox, and O’Hara and Indiana townships — and the canopy over much of it is taller than the houses. That changes the lightning math. A strike rarely needs to find the roof directly: it finds the tallest oak on the lot, and from there it can side-flash to the roofline or run the root system straight toward the foundation.
WB Lightning Rods protects wooded properties the way we’ve protected Pennsylvania homes since 1950: complete systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, designed for the property — the house, the trees that tower over it, and every outbuilding on the lot. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so getting protected starts with one call.
On a wooded Fox Chapel lot, the mature oaks and maples stand well above the roofline. Lightning seeks the highest point — and a tree beside the house can pass a strike into the roof, the roots, and the wiring.
Homes here climb the hillsides above the river valleys, and the older stone and brick houses carry tall chimneys above the ridge. Elevation plus height is exposure, on lot after lot.
Summer storms run the Allegheny River valley and break over the borough’s ridges at full strength. Valley weather arrives fast, and the wooded high ground takes it first.
One company for the whole property — homes, garages, outbuildings, and the trees over them, anywhere in Fox Chapel & the northeast suburbs.
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 fine architecture — stone, slate, and standing-seam metal roofs — 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, garage, guest house, pool house, 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 Fox Chapel specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, and the mature trees that stand over them — the high points lightning seeks first on wooded Fox Chapel 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, sized for the shale and rocky hillside soils above the Allegheny River, 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.
Garages, guest houses, pool houses, and sheds incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Fox Chapel property is more than the house — it’s the garage, the guest house, the pool house, and an acre or more of mature trees that are part of the home’s character. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, buildings and specimen trees together, which costs less than protecting them one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, gate operators, landscape lighting, and outbuilding power all ride the same service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a Fox Chapel home and a second property anywhere in the state are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — homes, carriage houses, and wooded properties 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 Pennsylvania storms the calm way.
Yes, and it’s one of the first things we look at. A tall tree close to the house can side-flash a strike into the roof or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We protect specimen trees with their own terminals and grounding, and we design the house system around the canopy over it.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Multi-building packages price the properties 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages cover the main house, barns, pole barns, shops, and outbuildings 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 — or one that hits utility lines down the road — can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, 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.
Yes. A tall tree close to a house or barn can side-flash a strike into the roof, or send current through its roots toward the foundation. We install lightning protection for trees themselves — their own terminals and grounding — and we factor nearby trees into every property design.
Yes — Fox Chapel, Aspinwall, Sharpsburg, O’Hara and Indiana townships, Hampton, and the whole Route 28 corridor are a regular stop on our Pittsburgh routes, and we serve all of Pennsylvania statewide. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery so distance never slows down getting your estimate.
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