New Jersey’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
Princeton’s historic streets, the Hopewell Valley’s gentleman farms, and the Sourland Mountain’s wooded estates all stand under the same central Jersey skies — where summer storms build over the Piedmont and arrive at full strength. We protect the whole property: house, barns, guest houses, and outbuildings, every building covered.
Central Jersey mixes three kinds of exposure in a few miles. There are Princeton’s historic and estate homes, where tall chimneys and cupolas stand over two centuries of architecture. There are the Hopewell Valley and Montgomery’s gentleman farms and horse properties, where barns and arenas spread across open ground. And there are the Sourland Mountain’s ridge-top homes, standing alone in deep woods on some of the highest ground in the region. Summer thunderstorms build over the Piedmont and the Delaware bluffs and take all of it at full strength.
WB Lightning Rods protects central Jersey the way we’ve protected fine homes and farms since 1950: complete systems built to NFPA 780 guidelines with UL-listed materials made in the USA — low-profile on historic and estate homes, whole-farm packages on the valley farms. 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.
Princeton and Hopewell homes have stood through two centuries of storms — with two centuries of accumulated risk. Low-profile systems protect irreplaceable historic architecture without changing how it looks.
The Hopewell Valley’s farms run horse barns, hay, and equipment on open ground. A barn strike is the loss a farm can least afford, and the barn is usually the tallest structure on it.
Ridge-top homes in the Sourlands stand alone above the canopy. In wooded high country, the house and the great trees around it are exactly where lightning lands.
One company for the whole property — estates, historic homes, farms, and barns, anywhere in Princeton & central Jersey.
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 and historic architecture — stone, slate, cedar, 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, barns, guest houses, pool 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 central Jersey specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, barn ridgelines, and silos — the high points lightning seeks first on central Jersey 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, designed for local soils — from Piedmont clay to Sourland diabase rock — 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, stables, equipment shops, guest houses, and pool houses incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A central Jersey property is often more than the house — a barn, a stable, a guest house, a shop out back. 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, arena 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 and farm to farm. Neighbors who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of New Jersey statewide, a Princeton home and a second property down the shore 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 New Jersey storms the calm way.
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. On most historic homes, visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out.
That’s our specialty. Multi-building packages for farms cover the farmhouse, 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.
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.
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 terminals on the roof: a properly grounded system gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth at the structure itself.
Yes. When several homes on the same street or 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’s the most affordable way to protect a whole street, and 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.
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