New Hampshire’s #1 Lightning Protection Contractor
The Lakes Region is built on open water: Lake Winnipesaukee’s long shore from Wolfeboro and Meredith to Gilford, Laconia, and Moultonborough, and Squam Lake beyond. Summer thunderstorms build over the Ossipee and Belknap hills and sweep across the lakes unbroken — and a lake home on a point is the tallest structure for a mile of shoreline. Many lake homes and camps sit empty outside the season. We protect the whole property: main house, guest house, barns, and boathouses, every building covered.
From Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro on the eastern shore through Meredith, Gilford, and Laconia to Moultonborough’s long peninsulas and the Squam Lake towns, Lakes Region properties sit exactly where summer storms do their work. Storms cross open water at full strength and strike the first high ground they meet: point lots, island-facing homes, and the tall pines standing over nearly every camp. A strike to a chimney or ridgeline can tear masonry, ignite framing, and send destructive current through every circuit in the house — in a seasonal home, the damage may not be found for weeks.
WB Lightning Rods protects Lakes Region properties the way we’ve protected fine homes since 1950: low-profile systems designed around the building, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly along rooflines and downspout lines, and grounding designed for lakeshore soils and granite ledge. The whole property is designed into the plan — main house, guest houses, boathouses, and barns. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Winnipesaukee and Squam shore homes sit on points and open bays where storms sweep in unbroken. On a lake lot, the house is the tallest point for a long way in every direction.
Many Lakes Region properties are empty outside the summer season — nobody is there when a storm crosses the lake. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery.
The pines around Winnipesaukee and Squam tower over camps and lake houses on shore after shore, and pines are among the trees lightning finds first. Trees and rooflines share the strike zone — a designed system covers both.
One company for the whole property — lake homes, camps, guest houses, boathouses, and barns, anywhere in the Lakes Region.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Low-profile systems for Winnipesaukee and Squam waterfront homes and camps — clean runs along rooflines and downspout lines that respect the building and the shoreline.
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, guest houses, boathouses, barns, 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 the Lakes Region specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, cupolas, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first on lake 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 lakeshore soils — sand, gravel, and granite ledge included, with grounding engineered where ledge sits near the surface — 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.
Guest houses, boathouses, barns, pole barns, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A lake property is often more than the house — a guest house, a boathouse, a barn up the road. 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 irrigation all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies shore by shore. Neighbors on the same lake road or in the same shore community who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of New Hampshire statewide, a Winnipesaukee home and a Seacoast home are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — lake-style and estate homes 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 Hampshire storms the calm way.
Yes. Thunderstorms build over the hills and cross open water at full strength, and on a point or shore lot your roofline is the tallest point around. A system designed for the roofline gives strike energy a direct, controlled path to earth instead.
Yes — and seasonal properties are exactly where protection matters most, because nobody is there to smell smoke or cut power when a storm crosses the lake. A properly grounded system works whether you’re there or not, and many quotes start from satellite imagery so the process doesn’t need you on site.
Yes. A strike to a nearby tree, a dock, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, well pumps, dock power, 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.
Ledge needs engineered grounding, not less protection — rods are driven where the soil allows and the ground system is supplemented and sized for the site’s resistance, then verified as part of the installation. WB designs every Lakes Region system for its lot’s actual conditions.
Yes. When several homes on the same lake road or in the same shore community 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.
Price depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. 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.
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