Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Kennett Square is the Mushroom Capital — long mushroom houses and big agricultural buildings work around the clock here, with horse farms spread across the rolling ground at the Chester County edge toward Longwood Gardens and Route 1. WB protects houses and outbuildings and pole barns as well — not just horse barns — so the farmhouse, the growing houses, the stables, and the shops all sit under one plan.
Few towns pack this much working agriculture into one valley. Mushroom houses run long and low across southern Chester County, filled with compost, timber, cooling equipment, and crews working every hour of the day, while horse farms, dairy ground, and produce farms fill the roads out toward Unionville, Landenberg, Avondale, and West Grove. Summer thunderstorms build over that open Route 1 corridor and arrive at full strength, and the tallest roof in an open field — a barn ridge, a silo, a farmhouse chimney — is what those storms find first. A single strike can ignite hay and timber framing, kill livestock, and shut a growing operation down in one night.
WB Lightning Rods protects Kennett Square properties the way we’ve protected farms and homes since 1950: a complete system on every building that matters, designed as one property plan. That covers residential homes and custom homes in town and out on the farm lanes, the mushroom houses and other agricultural buildings, horse barns and arenas, equipment shops, and the mature trees shading the farmhouse. Every system is built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, 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.
A growing house runs fans, cooling, and lighting day and night, and its long roof stands out in open country. Protecting the building protects the crop, the equipment, and the people working inside it.
Barns, arenas, and run-in sheds stand apart from the house on exposed ground, with horses, hay, and tack inside. Open fields offer a storm nothing taller to hit.
Farmhouse, growing houses, barns, shops, and silos priced together in a multi-building farm package — protecting everything costs less than protecting buildings one at a time.
One company for the whole property — homes, mushroom houses, horse barns, and farm buildings, anywhere around Kennett Square and across Pennsylvania statewide.
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 stone, brick, and slate roofs on Kennett Square custom homes — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines 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 — farmhouse, mushroom houses, horse 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 southern Chester County specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along farmhouse chimneys, barn ridgelines, silo tops, and the long rooflines of mushroom houses — the high points lightning seeks first on Kennett Square 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 valley’s clay and limestone soils so strike energy disperses quickly and 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.
Mushroom houses, horse barns, equipment shops, run-in sheds, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A Kennett Square farm is rarely one building, and it should not be protected one building at a time. Our multi-building farm packages price the whole property as one design — farmhouse, mushroom houses, horse barns, pole barns, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less per building and leaves no gap between structures. Well pumps, cooling controls, and packing-shed equipment all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies road by road. Neighbors along the same farm lane who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a Kennett Square farm and a second property anywhere else in the state are one call, one company.
Real WB installations — a stone bank barn mid-install, plus stables and pole barns 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 — that is core work for us around Kennett Square. Long growing houses, packing sheds, shops, and barns each get their own terminals, conductors, and grounding, designed into one property plan and priced together as a multi-building package.
No. We protect the farmhouse and the barns together — houses, outbuildings, pole barns, shops, and silos included. A horse barn is only one building on the farm, and leaving the house or the equipment shop uncovered leaves the property half protected.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or utility line down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, cooling controls, 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. When several homes or farms on the same road 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.
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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm 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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