Connecticut’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Central Connecticut runs from West Hartford’s and Farmington’s fine homes down the Connecticut River valley to Glastonbury’s farms — with horse properties in Avon and Simsbury and broad shade-tobacco barns standing in open valley fields. Summer cells ride the valley at full strength, and the farm shed and the chimney are the tallest points around. We protect the whole property: main house, barns, sheds, and garages, every building covered.
From West Hartford, Farmington, Avon, and Simsbury through Hartford to Glastonbury, East Hartford, and down the valley toward Windsor and Enfield, central Connecticut mixes two exposures. In the suburbs and the Farmington Valley, estate homes and colonials stand on ridges and under mature canopy, tall chimneys first in line. In the river valley, the working landscape — shade-tobacco sheds, dairy and produce farms, horse barns — puts long, low buildings alone in flat, open fields, and a tobacco shed full of curing leaf is a building that cannot be replaced once it burns.
WB Lightning Rods protects central Connecticut the way we’ve protected farms and fine homes since 1950: whole-property packages that design the house, barns, sheds, shops, and silos into one plan, and low-profile home systems that respect the architecture. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner, built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA.
Tobacco sheds, barns, and farm shops stand alone in the valley’s flat fields — the tallest structures around, exactly where valley storms land.
Avon, Simsbury, and West Hartford’s ridge neighborhoods put homes on high ground under tall trees. Chimneys above the canopy are the first targets when cells ride up from the valley floor.
A tobacco shed holds a season’s crop under cure; a barn holds animals, feed, and equipment. Protection is sized to what’s inside, not just the building.
One company for the whole property — homes, horse farms, tobacco sheds, dairy barns, and shops, anywhere in central Connecticut.
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 West Hartford and Farmington colonials, historic Hartford homes, and custom homes across the valley — 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, horse barns, tobacco sheds, dairy barn, and shops — 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 central Connecticut specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and long tobacco-shed roofs — the high points lightning seeks first in the valley.
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 local soils — rich valley loam along the river, till and ledge on the ridges — 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, tobacco sheds, pole barns, equipment shops, guest houses, and silos incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A central Connecticut property is often more than the house. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, horse barns, tobacco sheds, dairy barn, shops, and silos, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Well pumps, barn fans, irrigation, and shop power 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 Connecticut statewide, a Farmington home and a Quiet Corner farm under the same family are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — barns, sheds, 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 Connecticut storms the calm way.
Both — farm buildings are core work for us. Tobacco sheds, dairy barns, horse barns, pole barns, and shops each get terminals, conductors, and their own grounding, designed into the property’s plan. Long, low valley buildings in open fields are some of the most exposed structures in Connecticut.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, fence line, or the ground itself can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, barn fans, 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages cover the house, barns, sheds, 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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-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.
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.
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.
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