Virginia’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Smith Mountain Lake’s homes stand on open points and coves with miles of water in front of them — and water is where summer storms build fastest. A lakefront home with a tall roofline, a dock, and a boathouse is the high point of its shoreline when a cell crosses the lake. We protect the whole property: house, dock, and boathouse, every structure covered.
From Moneta and the Hales Ford Bridge through Huddleston, Goodview, and Hardy to Penhook and Union Hall — Smith Mountain Lake wraps 500 miles of shoreline across Bedford, Franklin, and Pittsylvania counties, and nearly every home on it faces the same exposure: open water and a tall roofline. Summer thunderstorms build over the lake in an afternoon and come ashore at full strength, and on a point or in a cove, the house is the tallest thing standing. A strike can fire framing, tear a chimney, or run through a dock’s electrical service straight into the panel.
WB Lightning Rods protects the lake the way we’ve protected Virginia homes since 1950, with complete systems designed for shoreline properties: terminals along ridgelines and chimneys, heavy conductor cables routed cleanly down the structure, and deep-driven grounding placed for rocky lakeshore soils. The whole property is designed into the plan — main house, boathouse, dock structures, guest quarters, and garages. Every system is installed by our experienced crew and personally supervised by the owner.
Thunderstorms build over 20,000 acres of open water in a single afternoon and reach the shoreline at full strength. Lakefront homes get no warning and no shelter from neighboring high ground.
On a point or in a cove, the house is the tallest structure around — often the only tall structure. Lightning crossing the lake makes contact with the highest roofline on the shore.
Shore power, lifts, and lighting put wiring right at the water’s edge, on structures that stand apart from the house. They belong in the same protection plan, grounded with the property.
One company for the whole property — lakefront homes, boathouses, docks, and guest quarters, anywhere on Smith Mountain Lake.
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 your home’s architecture — stone, cedar, brick, 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, guest quarters, and garages — 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 Smith Mountain Lake specifically, not copied from a template.
Low-profile terminals placed along ridgelines, chimneys, cupolas, and dormers — the high points lightning seeks first, sized to sit quietly on the roof.
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 the rocky soils of the lakeshore so strike energy disperses quickly and 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, dock structures, guest quarters, and garages incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
A lake property is rarely one building. Our multi-building packages price the whole property as one design — main house, boathouse, dock structures, guest quarters, and garage, all protected — which costs less than protecting buildings one at a time and leaves no gap between them. Shore power, boat lifts, well pumps, and landscape lighting all ride the same electrical service, and the design accounts for every one of them.
The same thinking applies cove by cove. Neighbors on the same shoreline who install together earn neighborhood discounts on multi-home packages, and because WB serves all of Virginia statewide, a lake house and a primary home in Roanoke, Lynchburg, or Richmond are one call, one company. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery, so the process can start with one call.
Real WB installations — lakefront homes and shoreline 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 Virginia 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 lake homes, visitors never notice the system until it’s pointed out — but it is working every storm.
Yes. A strike to the water near shore, a nearby tree, or utility lines down the road can send a damaging surge through wiring, shore power, boat lifts, 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 — and we recommend it. Shoreline structures are designed into the same plan as the house: boathouse, dock structures, guest quarters, and garage, each with its own terminals, conductors, and grounding, priced together as a whole-property package.
Easily. Many quotes are built from satellite imagery of the property, so the estimate starts with one call — no trip to the lake required. When you’re ready, our crew installs the system with the owner personally supervising, and we walk you through the finished work.
Yes. When several homes on the same shoreline 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 cove, and it only takes one organizer to get it started.
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.
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