Ohio’s #1 Lightning Protection Service
Hudson pairs a historic Western Reserve village with township roads of horse properties and large-lot homes. Tall chimneys, steep roofs, barns, and mature trees — all standing high on the ground between Akron and Cleveland. We protect the whole property.
Hudson's older village homes carry the classic profile: two-story brick and frame houses with tall chimneys, steep rooflines, and mature trees that have grown up alongside them. Out on the township roads, the pattern changes but the exposure doesn't — horse properties with barns and arenas, and large newer homes standing on open lots, are the highest points around when storms cross Summit County.
WB Lightning Rods protects both sides of Hudson: complete systems for historic village homes, designed discreetly around their architecture, and whole-property protection for horse farms — residence, barn, and arena together. Every system uses UL-listed materials built to NFPA 780 guidelines, is installed by our experienced crew, and is personally supervised by the owner.
Western Reserve architecture deserves protection that doesn't announce itself — low-profile terminals and conductors routed along the lines the house already has.
A barn concentrates horses, hay, and tack under one tall roof. Protection costs a fraction of what a single strike can take.
Current from a nearby strike spreads through wet ground, fencing, and water lines. Grounding designed around pastures and waterers reduces the risk to animals outside.
One company for the whole property — homes, farms, barns, trees, and every building in between, anywhere in Ohio.
Complete lightning rod systems for houses of every size, designed around your roofline — the work WB has done since 1950.
Protection designed in while the house goes up — new homes and barns rising around Hudson and the townships, protected from day one.
Discreet, low-profile systems for Ohio's older farmhouses and historic homes — 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.
Multi-building packages for farms — we protect all of your buildings — house, barns, shops, and sheds — with a lifetime of protection.
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 or road.
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 — and designed for Hudson specifically, not copied from a template.
Placed along rooflines, chimneys, barn ridges, and cupolas — the high points lightning seeks first on Hudson properties.
Copper or aluminum cables routed discreetly along rooflines and building lines, carrying strikes down and away from the structures.
Deep-driven ground rods at every down conductor, sited with care around pastures, lanes, and waterers on horse properties, and bonded together.
Metal roofing, water lines, fencing near structures, and electrical systems bonded into the system to prevent dangerous side-flashes.
Barns, arenas, garages, and outbuildings incorporated into the property plan — no building left exposed.
From the streets around the village green to the horse properties on the township roads, the Hudson pattern is a main house plus more: a barn, a garage, an arena, tall trees. Our whole-property packages price and protect all of it as one design, every building covered.
Village neighbors who install together qualify for neighborhood multi-home packages, and horse properties get grounding designed around the animals. And because WB serves all of Ohio statewide, a Hudson home and a second property anywhere in the state are one call, one company.
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 Ohio storms the calm way.
Very little. Low-profile terminals follow the ridgeline and conductors route along corners and existing lines. Discreet design is a goal on every historic home we protect.
Yes — barns, stables, and arenas are core work for us, along with the residence. Horses, hay, feed, and tack under one tall roof deserve the same protection as the house.
It can — ground current from a nearby strike spreads through wet soil, fencing, and water lines. Protecting buildings and designing grounding around paddocks, lanes, and waterers reduces the risk substantially.
A tall tree close to the home can side-flash a strike into the roof or send current through roots toward the foundation. We protect specimen trees with their own terminals and grounding, and factor nearby trees into every design.
During construction is ideal — terminals, conductors, and grounding go in cleanly as the building rises. If the barn is already up, we retrofit barns every week.
It depends on roof size and complexity, the number of buildings, and grounding conditions. Whole-property and multi-home packages price buildings together, which brings the per-building cost down. Estimates are free — many start from satellite imagery — and every system carries a lifetime warranty on parts and labor with a 5-year maintenance check at no cost.
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