Cheat Lake’s lakefront homes stand open to storms that roll across the water and the high Allegheny ridges behind them, and the farms of Preston and Marion counties spread across some of the highest ground in the state. We protect the whole property: house, barns, docks, and outbuildings, every building covered.
North-central West Virginia is high country. Morgantown’s custom homes and the lakefront houses around Cheat Lake sit on ridges and open shoreline, and the country behind them — Fairmont, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, and the Preston County farms around Kingwood, Terra Alta, and Bruceton Mills — is a patchwork of ridge-top farmsteads, dairy and cattle farms, and fine homes in growing communities like Bridgeport. Summer storms build over the Allegheny front and the lake alike and come in at full strength, and out here the tallest structure on the property is the one lightning finds.
WB Lightning Rods protects the north-central counties the way we’ve protected homes and farms since 1950: complete systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA, designed property by property — low-profile on lakefront and custom homes, whole-farm packages on farm country. 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.
Lakefront homes take storms that cross Cheat Lake with nothing to slow them down. Tall chimneys and ridgelines above the shoreline are the first tall objects those storms meet.
Preston and Marion county farms sit on some of West Virginia’s highest ground, where a bank barn and a silo stand alone against the sky. Those are the structures lightning finds first — and the ones a farm can least afford to lose.
From Bridgeport’s fine subdivisions to new homes going up around Morgantown, new construction is the cleanest, cheapest moment to protect a building — and most of it goes up with no protection at all.
One company for the whole property — lake homes, custom homes, farms, and barns, anywhere in Morgantown & north-central West Virginia.
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 and open shoreline exposure — slate, tile, and 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, barns, shops, guest houses, 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 north-central West Virginia specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on north-central 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 local soils — rocky highland ground included — 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 boat houses incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A north-central property is often more than the house — a barn, a shop, a guest house, a boat house on 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, and outbuilding service all ride the same electrical system, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies street by street and farm to farm. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of West Virginia statewide, a Cheat Lake home and a Preston County farm are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — estate homes, carriage houses, and farm buildings 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 West Virginia storms the calm way.
Yes. Open water gives a storm a clear run, and a lakefront home’s chimney and ridgeline are the tallest points on the shoreline. A system designed for the roofline gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth instead.
Yes — and all of West Virginia, statewide. Our crews run Morgantown, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Bridgeport, and Preston County on regular routes, and many quotes are built from satellite imagery so distance never slows down getting your estimate.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Farm and estate 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.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, dairy or horse 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 — 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.
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