Pennsylvania’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Fifty-two miles of shoreline, and every point of it sits open to storms that build over the water with nothing to slow them down. Lakefront homes, docks, and boathouses around Hawley, Tafton, and Greentown take those storms at full strength. We protect the whole property — house, boathouse, dock, and the trees over the shore.
A lake the size of Wallenpaupack is a storm magnet with a shoreline full of targets. Summer cells build over the open water and the ridges behind it, and the homes along the shore — in Hawley, Lakeville, Tafton, Paupack, and Greentown — stand between the water and the tree line with docks and boathouses reaching out into the lake itself. Open water gives lightning a clear run, and a boathouse or a tall pine at the water’s edge is often the highest point on the lot.
WB Lightning Rods protects lake 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 — house, boathouse, dock structures, and shoreline trees in one plan. 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.
Storms build over 5,700 acres of open water and reach the shoreline undiminished. There is no city, ridge, or tree line between a lakefront home and the weather coming off the lake.
A boathouse at the water’s edge and a dock reaching into open water are the most exposed structures on the property — and a strike path that runs straight back up the shore toward the house.
Many lake homes sit empty midweek, all summer, in peak storm season. A protection system works whether anyone is home or not — no one has to be there when the storm arrives.
One company for the whole property — lakefront homes, boathouses, docks, and shoreline trees, anywhere around Lake Wallenpaupack.
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, boathouse, garage, guest 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 Lake Wallenpaupack specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, boathouse roofs, and the shoreline trees that stand over them — the high points lightning seeks first on lakefront 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 rocky glacial soils around the lake, 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.
Boathouses, garages, guest houses, and sheds incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A lake property is a chain of structures — house, garage, boathouse, dock — and protecting only the house leaves the chain’s weakest link at the water. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design, all of it protected, which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, dock power, lifts, and outbuilding circuits all ride the same service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies cove by cove and shore by shore. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Pennsylvania statewide, a lake house and a primary home 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 lake-area 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 on a lake property it matters. Boathouses get their own terminals, conductors, and grounding designed into the property plan, and dock power and lifts are bonded into the design so a strike at the water’s edge has a controlled path to earth.
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.
Easily. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of your property, so the estimate doesn’t wait on a site visit, and we serve the whole lake — Hawley, Tafton, Greentown, Lakeville, and Paupack — on regular routes, plus all of Pennsylvania statewide.
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